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Commandant and he may not be present on the parade. Accordingly paragraph (b) of section 5 of this Ordinance gives the power
of arrest to the officer in command of the parade, or any su-
-pericr officer under whose command the parade then is. Any
officer or volunteer so arrested must be released at the end
of the march or duty or exercise during which he was placed
under arrest. Paragraph (c) of section 5 therefore, by way of
extra caution, provides that such release from acrest shall1
be without prejudice to any subsequent proceedings for the dis- -charge of the individual in question from the corps. Paragraph (a) of section 5 endeavours to effect a slight improvement in the numbering of the paragraphs of section 16(1) of the prin-
-cipal Ordinance.
7.
Section 6 of this Ordinance repeals section 16A of the
principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section. The prin-
-cipal changes are as follows :
(a) The sum of $25 which a non-efficient is liable to pay
will in future be paid into the general revenue of
the Colony and not into the general fund of the corps. (b) No member of a volunteer corps is to be liable to
forfeit this sun in respect of the year in which he
attains the age of forty years or in respect of any
subsequent year.
(c) No member of a volunteer corps who has been efficient
in three years, whether consecutive years or not, is
to be liable to forfeit the said sum.
(a) A member of a volunteer corps may for various reasons
have to quit the corps before making himself efficient
in any given year. Accordongly the Commandant is
given power to exempt such a person from liability to pay the $25 if he is of coinion (i) that the person in question quitted the corps for a reasonable and