1890
No. 25 of 1910.
Enrolment in Volunteer Force.
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VOLUNTEER RESERVE.
(2) A copy of every such regulation shall be furnished to every member of the Reserve.
15. The Governor may, by proclamation, whenever it appears to him advisable to do so by reason of invasion or war or danger of either of them, or by reason of any internal emergency threatening public security, to quell which the available civil force is deemed by him inadequate, cause all or any members of the Reserve to be enrolled as members of the Volunteer Force; and all the provisions of No. 4 of 1893, the Volunteer Ordinance, 1893, shall, in so far as they are applicable, extend and apply to every such member on being so enrolled to all intents and purposes as if such members had signed the engagement and taken the oath under that Ordinance; and every member so enrolled shall remain and continue subject to the provisions of the said Ordinance, and shall be entitled to the benefits thereof, until the Governor shall by proclamation cancel such enrolment; whereupon all members so enrolled shall again become subject to this Ordinance as members of the Reserve.
Wrongful detention or disposal of arms, appointments or stores.
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16. (1) All arms, ammunition, appointments, and other stores supplied at the public expense and issued to any member of the Reserve, shall be and remain the property of the Government, and shall be produced, exhibited, and delivered to any person authorised by the Governor to inspect or receive the same.
(2) If any person wilfully makes away with, sells, pawns, wrongfully destroys or damages, or negligently loses anything issued to a member of the Reserve, or refuses or neglects when lawfully required to produce, exhibit, or deliver on demand anything which he is liable under this Ordinance to produce, exhibit, or deliver, the value thereof shall be recoverable from him summarily before a Magistrate by the president; and he shall also for every such offence be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars.
(3) Whoever knowingly buys or takes in exchange or in pawn from any member of the Reserve or person acting on his behalf, or solicits or entices any member to sell or pawn, or knowingly assists or acts for any member in selling or pawning, or has in his possession or keeping, without satisfactorily accounting therefor, any arms, ammunition, clothing, appointments, musical instruments, or necessaries, being public property or the property of the
* As amended by No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.
† As amended by No. 12 of 1912, No. 13 of 1912, and No. 21 of 1912.
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