Age for enlistment.
Term of service and re-engagement.
Appointment and promotion
of officer.
(b) sign such forms as the Commanding Officer may require;
and
(c) furnish such personal references as the Governor may
require.
(2) A person shall be enlisted as a recruit notwithstanding that he has previously served as an officer or member:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply if a person is re-engaged for a further term within six months of the expiry of his previous term of service.
11. (1) Except in the Home Guard, only persons over the age of seventeen and under the age of forty-five shall be enlisted.
(2) A young person who has attained the age of seventeen. may be enlisted in the Regiment if consent to the enlistmeat, în such form as the Commanding Officer may require, is given in writing by the parent or guardian of the young person.
(3) A young person enlisted under paragraph (2) shall be regarded as a man for all purposes of the Ordinance.
(4) The Governor may alter the ages specified in paragraph (1) either generally or in any particular case,
12. (1) The term of service of a volunteer shall be four years.
(2) A volunteer may apply to the Commanding Officer for re-engagement in the Regiment.
(3) A volunteer who applies for re-engagement may be required by the Commanding Officer-
(a) to sign a declaration in such form as the Commanding
Officer may specify; and
(b) to be medically examined.
(4) Re-engagement may be for a term not exceeding four years at the discretion of the Commanding Officer.
(5) A volunteer who is in receipt of a pension under section 15 of the Ordinance shall not be re-engaged.
13. (1) The appointment or promotion of an officer (which shall be notified in the Gazette) shall be by the Governor.
(2) A recommendation for the appointment or promotion of an officer to substantive, temporary or acting rank shall be sub- mitted by the Commanding Officer to the Governor through the Service Commander.
14. (1) An application for resignation of his commission by Resignation of an officer shall be sent to the Commanding Officer, who shall
commission. forward it to the Governor through the Service Commander; the Governor may, in his discretion, permit the ollicer to resign his commission.
(2) An officer who is permitted to resign his commission, or who retires from service under regulation 15, shall remain on the strength of the Regiment until the day before the date of his resignation or retirement as published in the Gazette.
15. (1) Subject to these regulations or unless the Governor otherwise directs, an officer shall retire at-
(a) fifty years, if a lieutenant-colonel;
(b) forty-five years, if an officer below the rank of lieutenant-
colonel (other than a quarter-master); and
(c) fifty-five years, if a quarter-master.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) the Commanding Officer may extend the service of any officer for a period of not more than two years after the age of retirement specified therein.
(3) An officer, other than an officer seconded from Her Majesty's regular forces, who retires after ten years' commissioned service may, on the recommendation of the Service Commander, be granted--
(a) an honorary rank equivalent to his substantive runk at
the date of bis retirement; and
(b) the privilege of wearing the uniform of such rank within the Commonwealth on such State or other ceremonial occasions as may be specified by the Governor.
16. (1) Unless otherwise provided in these regulations, the age at which a member shall be discharged is-
(a) fifty-five years, in the case of a warrant officer (class 1);
and
(b) fifty years, in the case of a warrant officer (class II), non-
commissioned officer or soldier.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Commanding Officer may extend the service of any member for a period of not more than five years after the age of discharge specified therein.
(3) Any member, other than a member seconded from Her Majesty's regular forces, who has held the rank of sergeant or
Retirement of officers.
Discharge of members.
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