16. The Government may dismiss or remove from the service any person subject to this Act.

17. (1) The Chief of Army Staff may dismiss or remove from the service any ¹[junior commissioned officer] or any person enrolled under this Act. (2) An officer having power to convene a district court martial or an officer not below the rank of lieutenant-colonel empowered by the Chief of Army Staff in this behalf may dismiss or remove from the service any person enrolled under this Act who may be serving under his command.

18. The prescribed authority may, in conformity with such rules as may be prescribed in this behalf, retire, release or discharge from the service any person subject to this Act.

19. Every junior commissioned officer ²[* * *] or person enrolled under this Act, who is dismissed, removed, retired, released or discharged from the service shall be furnished by his commanding officer with a certificate in the ³[Bengali] language or such other language as he understands, setting forth,-(a) the authority who terminates his service;(b) the cause for such termination;(c) the full period of his service in the Bangladesh Army.

20. (1) Any person subject to this Act, who is entitled under the conditions of his service to be discharged, or whose discharge is ordered by competent authority, and who, when he is so entitled or ordered to be discharged, is serving out of Bangladesh, and requests to be sent to Bangladesh, shall, before being discharged, be sent to Bangladesh with all convenient speed. (2) Any person subject to this Act who is dismissed from the service and who, when he is so dismissed is serving out of Bangladesh, shall be sent to Bangladesh with all convenient speed. (3) When any such person as is mentioned in sub-section (2) is sentenced to dismissal combined with any other punishment, such other punishment, or in the case of a sentence of transportation or imprisonment, a portion of such sentence, may be inflicted before he is sent to Bangladesh. Explanation.-For the purposes of this section, the word “discharge” shall include retirement or release, and the word “dismissal” shall include removal.