Failure by officers or members to attend
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(2) Any member who feels aggrieved by such discharge may through the normal service channels appead to the Governor and the Governor may cancel or confirm such discharge or give such other directions with reference thereto and such determination shall be binding on all persons.
(3) Commanding Officers may inflict such summary punish- ments as are laid down in the regulations to the Ordinance for minor offences committed by members under their command.
(4) (4) If any officer or member, when on duty with the Force or any part thereof, or when wearing the uniform of the Force, commits an offence against this Ordinance or any regulations made thereunder he may if he is an officer be placed under arrest by a superior officer and and if he is a member be placed under arrest by an officer, warrant officer or non-commissioned officer of the Force, who is his superior in rank.
(b) An officer or member may not be kept under arrest longer than during the period which he would have been on duty with the Force or would be in uniform.
(c) Every such arrest shall be forthwith reported to the appropriate Commanding Officer who will inform the Commandant.
(d) Release from such arrest shall be without prejudice to any subsequent proceedings for discharge or summary punish- ment under the provisions of this section.
25. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection 3. or to the provisions of section 24 or to such provisions, if any, as may be contained in regulations made hereunder whereby officers training or or members may be deprived of an instruction allowance or of
bounty every officer and member who-
Instruction
and in connexion
therewith.
(4) fails without reasonable excuse to attend the training and instruction which he is by virtue of regulations made hereunder from time to time required to attend; or
(b) fails to use his best endeavours to obtain the full bencht of such training and instruction or to discharge any duty lawfully assigned to him in the course of such training and instruction,
shall be guilty of an offence
Provided that no prosecution for an offence against this section shall be commenced without the consent of the Commandant,
(2) No officer or member shall be liable to prosecution under subsection (1) in respect of the year during which he attains such age of compulsory retirement as may be prescribed by regulations.
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(3) If any volunteer other than a person referred to in sub- section (2) quits the Force without completing the requirements of efficiency in any year, he shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars: Provided that the Commandant may exempt from liability any volunteer who in his opinion quitted the Force for a reasonable and bonu fide cause and used reasonable diligence in his training until he quitted the Force.
(4) If any volunteer fails to fulfil any of his obligations under this Ordinance, such failure shall be deemed to be sufficient cause for discharge within the meaning of section 24(1): Provided that no volunteer shall be discharged for this cause if the Commandant or the Governor in the case of appeal is of opinion that such volunteer had a reasonable excuse for such failure.
(5) For the purpose of this section the year shall be deemed to start on the 1st day of October.
26. Any officer or member who feels that he has a just cause Com- for complaint in any matter relative to the Force may present his plaints. complaint to the Service Commander of his unit through the Commanding Officer and the Commandant with a right of appeal
to the Governor whose decision shall be final.
the Force,
27. Any person who wilfully obstructs any part of the Force Obstructing or any officer or member in the performance of service or
any duty under this Ordinance or regulations made thereunder shall be guilty of an offence.
28. Any person who is guilty of an offence against section Penalties. 23, 25 or 27 shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.
PART V.
Property of the Forco.
29. All moneys subscribed by or to, or for the use of the Vesting of Force as a whole, or lawfully used by it, not being the property Force in
property of of an individual member of the Force, and the exclusive right to Cam- sue for and recover current subscriptions, arrears of subscriptions mandant. and the moneys due to the Force as a whole, shall vest in the Commandant 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 and the service of the Force as a whole shall be deemed to be a public service.
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