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Surgeon is allowed to every corps of Light Horse
which is not entitled to a Veterinary Surgeon.
26. No Officer holding an honorary commission can,
in virtue of it, take precedence of any Officer holding
a substantive commission of the same rank.
27. Every Officer is expected to give a proper
attendance at the drills and parades of his corps, and
any Officer who does not attend the number of drills
prescribed for the enrolled Volunteers to qualify
them for certificates of efficiency, will not be allowed
to retain his commission, unless it shall be repre-
sented by the Officer commanding the district that
there are special reasons for a relaxation of this
regulation.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

28. The Non-commissioned Officers of a corps are
    appointed by the Commanding Officer from among
    the enrolled members.
29. Lance-Sergeants and Lance-Corporals may be
    appointed by the Commanding Officer.
30. A Non-commissioned Officer may be reduced by
    the Inspector, or (with the consent in writing of the
    Officer commanding the district) by the Commanding
    Officer of his corps, for any sufficient cause.

ENROLLED MEMBERS.

31. No person below the age of 17 is to be enrolled
    in a Volunteer Corps.
32. Boys of 14 years of age and upwards, may, if
    the authority of the Government be first obtained,
    be enrolled for the purpose of being trained as bands-
    men, trumpeters, or buglers.
33. Apprentices are not to be enrolled without
    consent in writing of their masters.
34. No member of a Volunteer Corps is to be en-
    rolled in another corps until he has legally ceased to
    be a member of the former corps. This does not
    interfere with transfers from one corps to another.
35. Persons dismissed from a Volunteer Corps for
    misconduct are not eligible for enrolment in another
    corps.
36. The Commanding Officer of a corps is to give
    to any Volunteer who voluntarily quits it, and who
    has complied with the conditions contained in clause
    XVI. of "The Volunteer Act, 1865," a certificate of
    discharge in the form prescribed in Appendix A,
    when requested to do so by such Volunteer.
37. Enrolled members are classified as "Efficients"
    or "Non-efficients."
38. In order to be reckoned as "efficient," an
    enrolled member must have fulfilled the conditions
    hereinafter described.
39. An efficient member is authorized to wear on
    the right arm, immediately above the cuff of the
    sleeve, a distinctive badge consisting of a ring of
    silver lace 1/4-inch wide, of the pattern worn by the
    corps, and an additional similar ring for each con-
    secutive year in which he is an efficient member.
40. All enrolled members who do not fulfil the
    conditions hereinafter referred to are reckoned as
    non-efficients.
41. Supernumerary members are members enrolled
    beyond the maximum establishment of the corps.
    They cannot be enrolled without the special autho-
    rity of the Government.

EFFICIENT MEMBERS.

42. Commissioned Officers of a Volunteer Corps
    are to be deemed "efficient" members.
43. A Volunteer shall be deemed an efficient
    Volunteer if he obtains a certificate showing that he
    has fulfilled the requirements and possesses the
    qualifications stated in or upon such one of the
    annexed forms of certificate as may be applicable
    in his case, and not otherwise. Provided always that
    every Volunteer who has been enrolled for a period
    of at least eighteen months immediately prior to the
    31st December, 1865, and whose services are con-
    tinued under "The Volunteer Act, 1865," shall, for
    all the purposes of the said Act, and of these regu-
    lations, be deemed to be an efficient Volunteer up to
    the 30th June, 1866, without the aforesaid certificate.
44. Every such certificate shall be granted as soon
    as may be after the 30th day of June in every year,
    and shall bear date the 1st day of July, and shall be
    evidence of the efficiency of the Volunteer to whom
    it is granted during the year ending the 30th day of
    June next following its date. A record of every
    such certificate must be kept by the Paymaster, to
    enable him to furnish a correct return of the number
    of efficient members entitled to the capitation
    allowance.
45. In the course of each year ending 30th day of
    June the Adjutant of the Permanent Staff shall
    select from time to time such Volunteers as in his
    opinion have fulfilled the requirements and possess
    the qualifications aforesaid, and submit their names to
    the Officer commanding the district with a view to
    their obtaining certificates of efficiency.
46. If the Adjutant refuses to recommend any
    Volunteer for a certificate, and the Volunteer con-
    siders himself aggrieved thereby, the Volunteer may
    appeal direct to the Officer commanding the district..
47. If the Officer commanding the district con-
    curs in the Adjutant's recommendation or refusal to
    recommend, he shall either sign the certificate or
    else approve the withholding of it, as the case may
    be, and his decision shall be final.
48. When the situation and circumstances of a
    Rifle Volunteer Corps are such as, in the opinion of
    the Officer commanding the district, to create serious
    obstacles to the fulfilment by the Volunteers belong-
    ing to the corps of the requirements of attendance
    battalion drill such number of times within twelve
    months as is prescribed upon the annexed form of
    certificate, the Officer commanding the district
    shall have the power to reduce the number of
    battalion drills, and to increase proportionately
    the number of company drills requisite to entitle a
    Volunteer belonging to the corps to a certificate of
    efficiency.
49. When the Officer inspecting a Volunteer Corps
    at the annual inspection reports that the corps is not
    proficient in drill and instruction to his satisfaction,
    then, notwithstanding anything hereinbefore pro-
    vided, the certificates of efficiency may be withheld
    for the ensuing year from all Volunteers belonging to
    such corps.
50. In case any alterations in the terms of any of
    the annexed forms of certificate should from time to
    time appear expedient the same may be made under
    authority of the Commander-in-chief.
51. Terms used in these Regulations, or in or
    upon the annexed forms of certificate, have the same
    meaning as they have when used in "The Volunteer
    Act, 1865."
52. The term "Recruit," used upon the annexed
    forms of Certificate, means a Volunteer who has never
    been returned as an efficient in an annual return of
    his corps. It does not however include a Volunteer
    who has been an enrolled member of a Volunteer
    Corps during the twelve months ending 31st De-
    cember, 1865.

FORMS OF CERTIFICATES OF EFFICIENCY.
(Form A.)

For Light Horse Volunteer Corps.
We hereby certify :

1. That A.B., No. was enrolled in the
   Light Horse Volunteer Corps on the 18 .
2. That he is provided with an efficient horse and
   horse furniture for the service.