1974 Ed.]
Essential Services Corps (General) Regulations
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6. (1) Upon the death of a member or the resignation or discharge of a member from membership of the Corps the Commissioner shall cause the enrolment of such member to be cancelled.
(2) In the case of the resignation or discharge of a member a certificate of cancellation in Form V in the Second Schedule shall be signed by the Commissioner and supplied to such member.
7. A member of the Corps who, when called out for active service or in training sustains a wound or injury or contracts an illness, which, in the opinion of a medical officer is attributable to or aggravated by such service, shall be granted free medical treatment by the Government medical services and, if admitted to a Government hospital, free maintenance therein and during the period of such treatment and until cancellation of the enrolment of such member shall receive full pay and allowances payable to such member.
8. The Corps shall consist of such Units and Sub-Units as may from time to time be determined by the Governor.
9. (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) every member who fails without reasonable excuse to complete the requirements of efficiency in any year shall be guilty of an offence. Penalty: a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) No member shall be liable to prosecution under paragraph (1) in respect of the year during which he attains the age of 60 years if he proposes to resign membership of the Corps in accordance with the provisions of regulation 14(4).
(3) If any volunteer other than a person referred to in paragraph (2) quits the Corps without completing with diligence the requirements of efficiency in any year, he shall be liable to a fine of $100:
Provided that the Commissioner may exempt from liability any volunteer who, in his opinion, quits the Corps for a reasonable and bona fide cause.
(4) The requirements for efficiency in any year shall be-- (a) the performance with diligence by the member of such number of training periods as the Commissioner, with the approval of the Colonial Secretary, shall direct for each Unit and Sub-Unit of the Corps:
Provided that no such direction shall require the performance of less than 5 or more than 60 training periods in any year and that any such direction shall be communicated in such manner as the Commissioner shall consider convenient to all members of the Unit or Sub-Unit affected thereby.
[Subsidiary]
Cancellation of enrolment.
Second Schedule, Form V.
Medical attention. L.N. 49/67.
G.N.A. 162/51.
Formation of Units and Sub-Units. L.N. 49/67.
Requirements for efficiency. G.N.A. 162/51.
G.N.A. 4/61.
G.N.A. 83/52. G.N.A. 4/61. L.N. 49/67.
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