Age limit for Home Guard.
Appointment. promotion, etc., of membera.
Training in the Colony.
First Schedule.
Second Schedule.
Training abroad.
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above for a period of ten years or more, may on discharge, on the recommendation of the Commanding Officer, be permitted-
(a) to retain his substantive rank at the date of his dis
charge: and
(b) the privilege of wearing the uniform of the Regiment ou
occasions specified by the Governor.
17. Only persons over the age of thirty-nine and under the age of sixty may serve in the Home Guard.
18. (1) The powers of appointment, promotion or reversion (other than for disciplinary reasons) of warrant and non-commis- sioned officers to substantive, temporary or acting warrant or non- commissioned ranks are vested in the Commanding Officer.
(2) A member shall not be eligible for promotion unless he has passed such tests as may be specified by the Commanding Officer.
19. (1) An officer or member (other than an officer or mem- ber of the Home Guard) shall undergo the training prescribed in the First Schedule.
(2) An officer or member of the Home Guard shall undergo the training prescribed in the Second Schedule.
(3) An officer or member shall attend a quarter of the annual training periods prescribed in the First or Second Schedule in sach quarter of the year.
(4) If in any quarter of the year an officer or member fails to attend the training periods required under paragraph (3), the Commanding Officer may order his attendance, in the quarter next following, at such number of training periods as were not attended in the quarter immediately preceding.
(5) An officer of member may complain to the Governor. through the Commanding Officer, that he has been required to attend, under paragraph (4), more training than is required by these regulations, and the Governor may confirm, vary or reverse the order of the Commanding Officer.
20. An officer or member shall, when attending a course of training outside the Colony approved by the Service Commander, continue to draw the pay and allowances appropriate to his rank and shall be paid any necessary travelling or other expenses incurred by him in connexion with the course of training.
21. (1) No officer or member shall, without the permission of the Governor, publish or cause to be published, any matler or information relating to the Regiment, whether or not he is still an officer or member.
(2) No officer or member shall, without the permission of the Governor, deliver a lecture or read a paper at a public meeting or broadcast on any subject relating to the Regiment, whether or not he is still an officer or member.
22. (1) No officer or member shall organize or attend any meeting, any of the objects of which is to-
(a) discuss the conduct of a superior officer or member; or (b) urge a superior officer or member to take a particular
course of action.
(2) No officer or member shall, when in uniform, attend any public meeting, save in the course of his duties.
23. (1) The Commanding Officer may grant leave of absence from the Colony or from duty to an officer or member for such period as he may think fit.
(2) An officer or member shall before leaving the Colony inform regimental headquarters of his forwarding address, and any change in such address shall be notified.
24. (1) An officer or member shall be eligible for decora- tions, medals or clasps for efficiency, long service and good conduct instituted by Her Majesty the Queen under Royal Warrant as far as they are applicable.
(2) The award of any decoration, medal or clasp under para- graph (1) shall be governed by regulations made by the Governor with the approval of Her Majesty the Queen.
Restriction 519 to publication and giving of lectures,
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to meetings.
Leave of absence.
Decorations. awards, etc.
25. Any officer or member who contravenes any provision Penalties. of regulation 21 or 22 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars.
26, (1) In the application of section 78 of the Army Act, the punishments which may be awarded under subsection (3) of that section shall be modified as follows-----
(a) if the accused is a member, other than a warrant officer or non-commissioned officer, detention for a period not exceeding fourteen days or, if the accused is on active service, field punishment for a period not exceeding twenty-eight days;
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