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(b) An Army Service Corps Cadre.

(c) A Lights Section Cadre.

(d) A Reserve of Officers.

The members of these auxiliary units will not be required

to undergo any training, but they will be liable to be called

up for actual military service. It may be added that there us

a.Reserve of Officers at present, though it is not elassed

as an auxiliary unit.

5.

Section 5 of the principal Ordinance provides that any

volunteer may quit his corps on giving fourteen days notice

in writing, delivering up his equipment, and paying any money

due by him. It also provides that every volunteer shall be

deemed to have engaged to serve for a period of three years.

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It was/cbvicus, though on examination it might have been clear,

that the obligation to give notice continued even after the

expiration of the original period of three years. Paragraphs

(b) and (c) of section 4 of this Ordinance are intended to

make the point obvious and quite clear. Section 4 also pro-

vides that the three year period shall not apply to the mem-

-bers of the auxiliary unita, who will accordingly be at

liberty to resign at any time upon giving fourteen days notice

in writing.

6.

Section 16 (1) (4) of the principal Ordinance gave a

certain power to arrest any officer or volunteer who disobeyed

any lawful order, or was guilty of misconduct, on any parade.

The obvicus intention was to provide a remedy for the possible

though unlikely case of the flouting of authority on a parade.

The paragraph in question, however, was defective in that it

gave the power of arrest only to "the officer then in command

of the corps or any superior officer in whose command the

corps then is". The officer in command of the corps is the

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