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(3) 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(5) An officer whose turn for promotion arrives may be superseded if he has not passed the prescribed examination.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) Supemumerary 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.

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

57

Lieutenant Colonels

55

Majors

50

Captains and subalterns

Quartermasters

45

55

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 Appoint-

officers of units are vested in the Commandant.

ment and promotion of non- commission-

(2) Recommendations for the appointment and promotion of all non-commissioned officers of units will be submitted by the com- ed officers. 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.

8. The training to be carried out will be as prescribed in the Training. First Appendix.

First Appendix,

Courses.

courses.

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 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 a 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 after the fifteenth day unless the course is one of long duration, such as a Machine Gun Course, in which case the limit may be extended to the actual duration of the course in any case where the General Officer Commanding the Troops sees fit to direct an extension.