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§ IIA. Position of the Governor in relation to His Majesty's Navy
21A. The Governor of a Colony has no authority over the movements of His Majesty's ships, and is not entitled to issue orders to Officers of the Royal Navy. But, it being a general obligation on all His Majesty's Civil and Military Officers to afford mutual assistance to each other in cases affecting the King's service, the Commander-in-Chief of a Station or the Senior Officer present at a Port is instructed in the King's Regulations for the Navy to pay due regard to such requisitions as he may receive from the Governor of a Colony having for their object the protection of His Majesty's Possessions, the benefit of the trade of His subjects, or the general good of His service.
In urgent cases, when the requisitions may conflict with the instructions from his superior Naval authority under which he is acting, and when reference by telegraph or otherwise to such superior authority is impracticable, a Naval Officer is instructed to consider the relative importance and urgency of the required service as compared with his instructions, whether general or special; and he is to decide, as in his judgment may seem best for His Majesty's service. In so doing he is instructed to bear in mind the grave responsibility that would rest on him if the circumstances were not such as to fully warrant the postponement of the instructions from his Naval superior to the more pressing requisition from the Governor.
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19. The above Regulations will hold good, though the Governor may be a Military Officer senior in rank to the Officer in Cominaud of the Forces.
20. If several Colonies are comprised in one Military Command, the Officer in Command of the whole may transfer Troops from one Colony to another on an application from the Governor of the Colony to which the Troops are sent, transmitted to him either through the Governor of the Colony in which he is serving, or through
the Officer commanding the Forces in the Colony for which Troops are required. But the Officer in command must in all cases consult with the Governor of the Colony from which the Troops are sent, and will incur a special responsibility if he sends them away without that Governor's consent.
21. For the purposes of the eleven last preceding regulations Colonies comprised under
one Government in Chief are to be treated as a single Colony.
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