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failure by members to
fulfil obligations
as to
efficiency, etc.
Discipline
when on actual
military service.
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(3) Disciplinary measures may be imposed, court martial proceedings may be commenced and carried on, and punish- ments may be imposed, in respect of acts or omissions of any officer of the corps or volunteer while undergoing training in camp, even though the officer of the corps or volunteer in question may have been permitted to leave the camp, and even though the camp may have been broken up, and even though the officer of the corps or volunteer in question may have been released from arrest or custody under the proviso to paragraph (iv) of sub-section (1).
16. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 15, but subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2), (3) and (4) of this section, every member of the corps who in the opinion of the Commandant fails without reasonable excuse to complete the requirements of efficiency in any year shall for- feit the sum of twenty-five dollars, which shall be paid into the general revenue of the Colony.
(2) No member of the corps shall be liable to forfeit the said sum of twenty-five dollars in respect of the year during which he attains the age of forty years or in respect of any subsequent year.
(3) No member of the corps who has completed the requirements of efficiency in the corps in three years, whether consecutive years or not, shall be liable to forfeit the said sum of twenty-five dollars.
(4) If any member of the corps other than such persons as are referred to in sub-sections (2) and (3), quits the corps without completing the requirements of efficiency in any year he shall remain liable to forfeit the said sum of twenty-five dollars as if he were still a member of the corps provided that the Commandant may exempt from the said liability any per- son who would otherwise have remained liable under this sub- section if he is of opinion (a) that such person quitted the corps for a reasonable and bona fide cause and (b) that such person used reasonable diligence in subjecting himself to the prescribed annual training up to the time of his quitting the
corps.
(5) If any member of the corps fails to fulfil any of his obligations under this Ordinance such failure shall be deemed to be a sufficient cause for discharge within the meaning of paragraph (i) of section 15 (1), provided that no member of the volunteer corps shall be discharged for this cause if the Commandant, or the Governor upon an appeal, is of opinion that such member had a reasonable excuse for such failure.
(6) For the purposes of this section the year shall be deemed to commence on the 16th day of April."
17.-(1) With respect to the discipline of officers of the corps and volunteers when they are on actual military service ΟΙ are undergoing drill, exercise, training or inspection together with or are voluntarily doing any duty together with His Majesty's regular forces or any part thereof, the following provisions shall take effect namely, the provisions of the 44 & 45 Vict, Army Act shall, so far as the same are applicable and con- sistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, apply to all officers of the corps and volunteers, with the following modi- fications only:-
c. 58.
(a) that no officer of the corps or volunteer shall for any offence against such Act except for the offence of murder be subject to the penalty of death; and
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(b) that no sentence of a court martial for the trial of an officer of the corps or volunteer shall be carried into execution unless confirmed by the Governor.
(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to limit or derogate from the power given by section 177 of the said Act to the officer commanding His Majesty's forces with which the corps is serving of making general orders specifying such ex- ceptions or modifications as in the same section are referred to.
Provided nevertheless that such modifications shall not apply to officers of the corps and volunteers who being on active service as defined by section 189 of the Army Act are outside 44 & 45 Vict. the limits of the Colony.
(3) Disciplinary measures may be imposed, court martial proceedings may be commenced and carried on, and punish- ments may be imposed, in respect of acts and omissions of any officer of the corps or volunteer while on actual military service, or while undergoing any such drill, exercise, training or inspection, or doing any such voluntary duty, as is referred to in sub-section (1), even though such actual military service, drill, exercise, training, inspection, or duty, shall have come to an end, and though such officer of the corps or volunteer shall have been released from any arrest or custody to which he may have been subjected.
c. 58.
ordored.
18. (1) It shall be lawful for the Commandant to order Attendanca any officer of the corps or volunteer to attend at any time at when Volunteer Headquarters or at any other place within the Colony for the purposes of any court martial or court of in- quiry, or for any other special purpose which may seem proper to the Commandant.
(2) Every such officer or volunteer who without reason- able excuse fails to comply with any such order shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
PART IV.
RULES AND PROPERTY OF CORPS.
19. The members of the corps may make rules for the Rules for management of the property, finances, and civil affairs of the management of property, corps, but such rules shall not have effect unless and until they etc.. of have been approved by the Governor and have been published corps. in the Gazette, and upon publication in the Gazette the rules
so approved shall be binding on all members of the corps.
of corps
Commandant rz officio.
20. All moneys subscribed by or to, or for the use of the Vesting of corps and all effects belonging to the corps or lawfully by used by it, not being the property of an individual member of in the the corps, and the exclusive right to sue for and recover current subscriptions, arrears of subscriptions, and other moneys due to the corps shall vest in the Commandant for the time being with power for him to sue, to make contracts and conveyances, and to do all other lawful things relating thereto, and the Commandant shall be deemed to be a public officer within the meaning of the Crown Suits Ordinance, 1910, and Ordinance the service of the corps shall be deemed to be a public service No. 5 of within the meaning of that Ordinance.
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Arms etc.
21. If any officer of the corps or volunteer fails duly to Return of deliver up in good order (fair wear and tear excepted) any arms, clothing or appointments which he is liable under this Ordinance to deliver up, or any arms clothing, or appoint-
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