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Commandant and he may not be present on the parade. Accordingly paragraph (b) of section 5 of this Ordinance gives the power

of arrest to the officer in command of the parade, or any su-

-pericr officer under whose command the parade then is. Any

officer or volunteer so arrested must be released at the end

of the march or duty or exercise during which he was placed

under arrest. Paragraph (c) of section 5 therefore, by way of

extra caution, provides that such release from acrest shall1

be without prejudice to any subsequent proceedings for the dis- -charge of the individual in question from the corps. Paragraph (a) of section 5 endeavours to effect a slight improvement in the numbering of the paragraphs of section 16(1) of the prin-

-cipal Ordinance.

7.

Section 6 of this Ordinance repeals section 16A of the

principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section. The prin-

-cipal changes are as follows :

(a) The sum of $25 which a non-efficient is liable to pay

will in future be paid into the general revenue of

the Colony and not into the general fund of the corps. (b) No member of a volunteer corps is to be liable to

forfeit this sun in respect of the year in which he

attains the age of forty years or in respect of any

subsequent year.

(c) No member of a volunteer corps who has been efficient

in three years, whether consecutive years or not, is

to be liable to forfeit the said sum.

(a) A member of a volunteer corps may for various reasons

have to quit the corps before making himself efficient

in any given year. Accordongly the Commandant is

given power to exempt such a person from liability to pay the $25 if he is of coinion (i) that the person in question quitted the corps for a reasonable and