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4. The force and civilian staff shall be under the control Control of
force and of the Inspector General and the members thereof shall obey civilian all such lawful commands as they may receive from the In- staff. spector General.
Regulation of the Force.
declaration.
5. Every person before appointment as a subordinate Oath or officer or constable or police interpreter or telephone operator or member of a crew shall take the oath or make the declara- tion in the Schedule.
Schedule.
engagement.
6.--(1) Every subordinate officer, constable, police inter- Period of preter, telephone operator and member of a crew shall engage and bind himself to serve for a term of not less than three months and of not more than five years, as may be directed by the Inspector General, during which term he shall not be at liberty to resign his office or to withdraw himself from the duties thereof, except as is hereinafter provided,
(2) Such period of engagement may include a probation- ary period, which shall not exceed six months, and should the person thus engaged be found during his probationary period to be unsatisfactory, the Inspector General may at any time during such probationary period terminate the engagement.
(3) No person whose period of engagement is terminated under sub-section (2) shall be entitled to any pay or compensa- tion other than the pay earned up to the time when the engagement was terminated.
7. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to Compulsory
retirement require any subordinate officer, constable, police interpreter, for telephone operator or member of a crew, whenever appointed, inefficiency to retire from the public service of the Colony who-
(a) appears to the Governor to be unable to discharge
efficiently the duties of his office; or
(b) has attained the age of fifty-five years.
or age.
which
claimed.
8. Any subordinate officer, constable, police interpreter, Terms on telephone operator or member of a crew shall be entitled to discharge claim his discharge at any time on his giving to the Inspector may be General three months notice of his wish to withdraw and paying a sum equivalent to two months pay of the rank or office he may hold at the time of his giving notice of with- drawal for each unexpired year of his term of appointment: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor to remit the whole or any part of the said sum: Provided also that it shall be lawful for the Governor to direct the In- spector General in any case to accept a shorter notice than three months.
as to
of force.
9.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council Provisions to make regulations for the granting of pensions to members pensions of the force, or in respect of service in the force, and to for members determine in special cases, where the regulations appear to the Governor in Council to be inapplicable or to require modi- fication, the amount (if any) of the pension, the terms on which it shall be granted and the manner in which it shall be paid.
(2) Pensions granted under this Ordinance shall be paid out of the general revenue of the Colony.