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NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

22. The Non-commissioned Officers of a corps may
    be elected by the members, subject to the approval
    of the Commanding Officer of such corps.

23. Non-commissioned Officers who qualify as
    Musketry Instructors will rank as senior Sergeants
    of their corps.

When a battalion is formed, a Battalion Musketry
Instructor may be appointed by the Officer Command-
ing, who will rank with but junior to the Sergeant-
Major.

24. A Non-commissioned Officer may be reduced
    by the Inspector, or (with the consent in writing of
    the Officer Commanding the District) by the Com-
    manding Officer of his Corps, for any sufficient
    cause.

ENROLLED MEMBERS.

25. No person below the age of seventeen is to be
    enrolled in a Volunteer Corps, except as a Bandsman.

26. Apprentices are not to be enrolled without
    consent in writing of their masters.

27. Any Volunteer who wishes to be transferred
    to another corps may, except when on actual service,
    at any time, by giving one week's previous notice,
    claim to be transferred upon his delivering up to the
    Commanding Officer of the corps which he is about
    to leave, in good order, fair wear and tear only ex-
    cepted, the arms and accoutrements or other property
    of the Government issued to him, and upon his pay-
    ing all money due by him under these Regulations or
    the rules of the corps. And provided further that
    if the said corps has been credited during the financial
    year with the capitation allowance for such Volunteer,
    the corps which he may subsequently join shall not,
    under any circumstances, be entitled to receive any
    further allowance on account of such Volunteer for
    the same financial year.

28. Every person admitted as a member of any
    Volunteer Corps in accordance with the private
    rules of such corps, shall before enrolment take the
    oath of allegiance, as prescribed in the 15th section of
    "The Volunteer Act, 1865," and shall attend such
    number of drills as the Officer Commanding the Corps
    may deem necessary to enable him to pass in squad
    drill, and manual and platoon exercises.

29. Persons dismissed from a Volunteer Corps for
    misconduct are not eligible for enrolment in another
    corps, and a list of such persons will be sent quarterly
    to Commanding Officers of Districts.

30. 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
    16 of "The Volunteer Act, 1865," a certificate of
    discharge in the form prescribed in Appendix when
    requested to do so by such Volunteer.

31. Enrolled members are classified as "Efficients,"
    "Non-efficients," and "Reserve."

32. In order to be reckoned as "efficient," an
    enrolled member must have fulfilled the conditions
    hereinafter described.

33. 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 -inch wide, of the pattern worn by the
    corps.

34. All enrolled members who do not fulfil the
    conditions hereinafter referred to are reckoned as
    non-efficients.

EFFICIENT MEMBERS.

35. Commissioned Officers of a Volunteer Corps
    are to be deemed "efficient" members.

36. 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
    any person duly enrolled in any Volunteer Corps
    who shall have been lawfully discharged with a good
    character from the same branch of the service in
    Her Majesty's Regular Forces may, upon enrolment,
    receive a certificate of efficiency, and be credited with
    such amount of capitation allowance as will accrue to
    him under these Regulations, and as the vote of the
    General Assembly for the current financial year shall
    place at the disposal of the Government.

37. A certificate of efficiency may be granted
    during any period of the twelve months commencing
    1st April in any year, and ending 31st March of the
    succeeding year, and shall be evidence of the efficiency
    of the Volunteer to whom it is granted. Volunteers
    enrolled on or after the 1st October in any year,
    shall only be entitled to half the annual capitation
    grant until the 1st April following, being the com-
    mencement of the next Volunteer year; provided
    they have completed six drills (of which not less than
    three must be Government monthly inspection
    parades) prior to the 31st March.

38. A record of the parades or drills at-
    tended by each Volunteer must be kept by the
    Commanding Officer of the Corps to which such
    Volunteer belongs. A book for this purpose will be
    furnished to each Volunteer Corps on application to
    the Inspector. Such record book must be signed
    monthly by the Officer Commanding the Corps, and
    must be open to examination at any time by an
    Adjutant of the Permanent Staff, or such other
    Officer as may be appointed to inspect the corps.

39. A record of the numbers of each corps attend-
    ing Government parades will be kept by the Officer
    of the Permanent Staff (or in his absence by a Non-
    commissioned Officer of the Permanent Staff,) in
    each district, in a record book to be furnished to him
    expressly for this purpose.

Before the Capitation Rolls are forwarded to the
Inspector, the Officer of the Permanent Staff will
compare them with his Record Book, and also with
that of the corps.

40. 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.

FORMS OF CERTIFICATES OF EFFICIENCY.

(Form A.)

For Light Horse Volunteer Corps.

We hereby certify-

1. That A.B. was enrolled in the on the

2. That he is provided with an efficient horse and
   horse furniture for the service.

3. That he has during the last twelve months
   attended seven (7) mounted parades.*

4. That he has attended five (5) other parades or
   squad drills, either mounted or dismounted, or both.

5. That he possesses a knowledge of the cavalry
   sword exercise, and dismounted and mounted troop
   drill.

6. That he has not been absent without leave from

• A mounted parade, referred to in section 3, shall mean a
  monthly inspection parade; and a parade or squad drill, referred
  to in section 4, shall mean a detachment, company, or troop
  parade. No parade or drill will count unless it shall have
  lasted one hour from the time of falling-in to the time of dis-
  missal, and unless the drill instructor, or one commissioned
  officer of the corps at least, shall have been present during the
  whole time.