Validity of attestation and enlistment

(1) Where a person has taken the oath of allegiance upon his attestation and has thereafter received pay as a soldier of the regular force– (a) the validity of his enlistment shall not be called in question on the grounds of any error or omission in his attestation paper; (b) after the expiration of the period of three months from the date on which he took the said oath he shall be deemed to have been validly enlisted notwithstanding any non- compliance with the requirements of this Act or any other ground whatever (not being an error or omission in his attestation paper) and he shall be deemed to be a soldier of that force until his discharge. (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be construed as prejudicing the determination of any question as to the term for which a person was enlisted or as preventing the discharge of a person who has not claimed his discharge.