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Commission.
ed officers.
Right of volunteer
to quit corps
on certain
conditions.
Volunteers
to be under command of officers of
regular forces.
4. The officers of the corps shall be British subjects and shall be commissioned by the Governor; and no such com- mission shall be deemed vacated by death or retirement from office of the Governor by whom the same was issued.
5.-(1) Subject as hereinafter mentioned, any volunteer may, except on actual military service, quit the corps on complying with the following conditions:-
(a) giving to the Commandant fourteen days notice in writing of his intention to quit the corps;
(b) delivering up in good order (fair wear and tear only excepted) all arms, clothing, and appointments, being public property or property of the corps, issued to him; and
(c) paying all money due or becoming due by him under this Ordinance or under any regulations made thereunder or under the rules of the corps, either before or at the time or by reason of his quitting it;
and thereupon he shall be struck out of the muster roll of the corps by the Commandant.
(2) If any volunteer gives such notice and the Com- mandant refuses to strike him out of the muster roll, and the volunteer considers himself aggrieved thereby, the volunteer may appeal to a magistrate, who shall hear and determine the appeal, and may, for the purposes thereof, administer oaths and examine any person as a witness, and, if it appears to the magistrate that the arms, clothing, and appointments issued to the volunteer, being public property or property of his corps, have been delivered up in good order (fair wear and tear only excepted), or that he has paid or is ready to pay sufficient compensation for any damages that such articles may have sustained, and that all moneys due or becoming due by him under this Ordinance or under any regulations made there- under or under the rules of the corps, either before or at the time of or by reason of his quitting it, have been paid, the magistrate may order the commandant forthwith to strike such volunteer out of the muster roll of the corps, and such deter- mination shall be binding on all persons.
(3) Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, every volunteer, other than a member of an auxiliary unit, shall be deemed to have engaged himself to serve for a period of at least three years from the date of his first admission to the corps, and if he quits, or is discharged from, the corps before the expiration of the first year of the said period he shall pay to the Commandant the sum of sixty dollars, if after the expiration of the first year and before the expiration of the second year the sum of forty dollars, and if after the expiration of the second year and before the expiration of the third year the sum of twenty dollars: Frovided that no such sum shall be payable by a volunteer who, in the opinion of the Commandant, bona fide intends to leave the Colony forthwith for a period of at least one year, or who quits his corps for any other cause which the Commandant may consider reasonable and bond fide: Provided also that nothing in this sub-section shall relieve any volunteer from the obligation to comply with the provisions of sub-section (1) if he wishes to quit the corps.
6. Whenever any volunteers are on actual military ser- vice, or are undergoing drill, exercise or inspection together with His Majesty's regular forces, or are voluntarily doing duty together with such forces, they and their officers shall, subject to any regulations made under this Ordinance, be
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under the command of the officers of His Majesty's regular forces, so, nevertheless, that the volunteers shall, when the circumstances of the service admit, be led by their own officers under such command.
7. An annual inspection of the corps shall be held by a Annual general or field officer of His Majesty's army.
inspection,
of corps.
8. The Governor may disband or discontinue the services Disbanding of the corps or any part thereof whenever it may seem to him expedient to do so.
9. The General Officer Commanding the Troops with the Courts of approval of the Governor, may at any time assemble a court inquiry. of inquiry comprised of officers of the corps to inquire into any matter relative to the corps or to any officer of the corps or volunteer, and to record the facts and circumstances as- certained on such inquiry, and, if so required, to report on the same for the information of the General Officer Command- ing the Troops.
10.-(1) The General Officer Commanding the Troops Regulations. may, with the approval of the Governor after consultation with the Commandant, make regulations respecting the con- stitution, general government, discipline and training of the corps, and in particular respecting
(a) conditions of efficiency;
(b) appointment, promotion and rank of officers; and (c) assembling and proceedings of courts of inquiry.
(2) The regulations contained in the First Schedule shall First
be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance and shall Schedule. continue in force except in so far as they may be rescinded or amended or added to by regulations made under this Ordi- nance, or by any other Ordinance.
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PART II.
ACTUAL MILITARY SERVICE.
for actual
case of
11. (1) In case of great national or local emergency, Calling out or in case of actual or apprehended invasion of or attack on military the Colony, or in case of serious local disturbance, or in case service in
be desirable to take precautions against the possibility national may of serious local disturbance, the Governor may, by proclama- emergency, tion, call out the corps or any portion thereof for actual invasion, or military service.
(2) Every officer of the corps and volunteer so called out shall be bound to assemble at such place as may be directed by the Governor, and to perform such service as may be required under the orders of the General Officer Commanding the Troops.
(3) Every such officer and volunteer so called out shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be on actual military service. If any such officer or volunteer, not being incapacitated by infirmity for service, refuses or neglects so to assemble, he shall be deemed a deserter.
(4) The period of such service shall continue so long as the Governor may consider necessary, and shall end only by order of the Governor.
serious local disturbance.
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