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(3) The corps shall be under the executive command of an officer who may be either a volunteer officer or an officer of His Majesty's regular forces. If this officer is a volunteer officer, the adjutant of the shall be an officer of His Majesty's regular forces, appointed Appoint. by the Army Council, unless no regular officer is available. ment as Commandant will be made for a period of four years. Governor, upon the recommendation of the General Officer Command- ing the Troops, may extend such period for terms not exceeding two years, but no Commandant will be permitted to retain his command beyond eight years in all, or beyond the age laid down in regulation 6 of these regulations, whichever may first happen.
(4) The Reserve Company shall consist generally of men who have reached the age of 40 years. No man who is under that age shall join the Reserve Company except with the special permission of the Commandant.
(5)-(a) The Army Service Corps Cadre and Lights Section Cadre shall consist of specially selected individuals whose previous training has rendered them fit to perform such duties as they may be required to perform if called out for actual military service.
(b) The members of the said Cadres and of the Anti-aircraft Light Automatic Company shall upon admission make and sign in the pre- sence of an officer of the corps the declaration set out in Form No. 3 in the Second Schedule to the Volunteer Ordinance, 1983.
(c) If either of the said Cadres or the Anti-aircraft Light Automatic Company is called out for actual military service every member thereof shall thereupon take the oath or make the declaration specified in Forms Nos. 1 and 2 in the Second Schedule to the Volunteer Ordinance, 1983, unless he has already taken the said oath or made the said declaration and has not quitted the corps after the taking of such oath or the making of such declaration.
(d) The members of the said Cadres shall not be required to undergo any training, and shall not, unless called out for actual military service, be required to attend any parade or inspection.
(e) No uniform will be issued to the members of the said Cadres or the Anti-aircraft Light Automatic Company unless they are called out for actual military service.
(A member of either of the said Cadres or the Anti-aircraft Light Automatic Company may also be a member of the Reserve Company, in which case he shall be subject to all the obligations to which members of that company are subject.
(g) All members of the Army Service Corps Cadre, Lights Section Cadre and the Anti-aircraft Light Automatic Company shall be at liberty to attend any voluntary parades or exercises organized by their officers.
(6) Any officer of the corps whose transference to the Reserve of Officers is approved by the Governor, and every officer of the corps who shall be absent from the Colony for a longer period than fifteen con- secutive months, shall be transferred to the Reserve of Officers. The said period of fifteen consecutive months may be wholly or in part prior to the date of the coming into force of these regulations.
(7) An officer of the corps who shall bave been transferred to the Reserve of Officers by reason of absence as aforesaid and shall there- after return to the Colony may be transferred to the active list or be retained in the Reserve of Officers at the discretion of the Com- mandant.
(8) Members of the Reserve of Officers shall not be required to undergo any training, and shall not, unless called up for actual military service, be required to attend any parade or inspection.
(9) The Commandant may, with the approval of the Governor, establish one or more cadet companies in connexion with the corps, and every such company shall as regards its establishment, administra- tion, and government, be subject to such regulations as the Com- mandant may make with the approval of the Governor.
4. The establishment of the corps shall be fixed from time to time as circumstances may require.
5.-(1) Recommendations for the appointment and promotion of Appoint- all officers of units will be submitted by the Commandant to the ment and Governor through the General Officer Commanding the Troops.
(2) Every officer upon his first appointment in the corps to any rank, and every officer before promotion to any higher rank, shall pass the examination prescribed for that rank: Provided that the General Officer Commanding the Troops may exempt any officer from com- pliance with this paragraph either wholly or in part, and may extend the time for passing such examination, but if any officer fails to comply with the conditions of any such exemption or extension he shall revert to his former rank.
(8) The nature of the examination in each case shall be as may be prescribed by the General Officer Commanding the Troops.
(4) The examining board shall be appointed by the General Officer Commanding the Troops.
(5) An officer whose turn for promotion arrives may be superseded if he has not passed the prescribed examination.
(6) Supernumerary officers may be appointed in any unit, but any such officers shall be absorbed into the establishment as soon as Vacancies occur therein.
(7) All appointments and promotions of members of the staff and of officers shall be notified in the Gazette and shall take effect from the date of such Gazette or from such other date as may be specified in the notification.
(8) The appointment and promotion of all members of the staff and officers are vested in the Governor.
promotion
of officers and staff.
6. The ages at which officers of the corps shall be compulsorily Compulsory retired shall be in accordance with the following table:-
retirement
of officers.
Years.
Colonels
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55
50
45
55
Lieutenant Colonels Majors
Captains and subalterns Quartermasters
unless an extension is granted by the Governor on the recommendation of the General Officer Commanding the Troops. Such extensions will not be granted for more than two years at a time, nor beyond a further period of five years.
7.-(1) The appointment and promotion of all non-commissioned officers of units are vested in the Commandant.
Appoint-
ment and promotion
(2) Recommendations for the appointment and promotion of of non-
all non-commissioned officers of units will be submitted by the com- commission- manding officers of such units to the Commandant.
(3) Promotion will be subject to the passing of such an examina- tion as may be prescribed or approved by the General Officer Com- manding the Troops,
Training,
ed officers.
8. The training to be carried out will be as prescribed in the Training. First Appendix.
Courses.
First
Appendix.
9.--(1) Subject to paragraph (3) of this regulation, an officer Allowances, whose attendance for a course of training or instruction, in the United etc., in Kingdom, with some unit or at a school of instruction, has been respect of approved by the General Officer Commanding the Troops, will be courses. allowed twenty shillings for each day of such attendance, together with necessary travelling expenses, in the United Kingdom, to commence the course and to return thereafter.
(2) In like circumstances a warrant officer or non-commissioned officer will be allowed ten shillings day, together with necessary travelling expenses as mentioned in the foregoing paragraph.
(3) The allowances mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this regulation will normally be limited to fifteen days attendance at a course; No allowance whatever will be paid in respect of attendance
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