New Zealand Gazette – 1906 – No. 9

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✨ Military Precedence Regulations



Volunteer Force.

Field Artillery.

Garrison Artillery.

Engineers (Submarine Mining and Field).

Mounted Rifles.

Infantry (including Cyclists).

Medical Corps.

Field Hospital and Bearer Companies.

Veterinary Corps.

Defence Cadets.

Defence Rifle Clubs.

Garrison Bands.

Battalion Bands.

  1. The relative precedence of companies or units of the same arm
    shall be determined by the date on which the Governor accepts their
    services. If companies or units are accepted on the same date,
    their precedence shall be determined by the order in which such
    acceptance appears in the New Zealand Gazette.

Precedence of Officers.

  1. Officers of the Permanent Staff and Permanent Militia shall
    take precedence of rank of officers of other branches of the Defence
    Forces.

  2. Officers of the Militia and Volunteers, when serving
    together or on the staff, shall rank with each other of like rank
    according to the dates of their commissions.

  3. Where any commissions of like rank bear the same date, the
    holders thereof respectively shall rank according to the dates of
    their prior commissions, and in case there be no such prior com-
    missions, then the aforesaid holders shall take rank alphabetically
    in the order of their names.

  4. An officer holding a substantive and brevet commission shall
    take precedence of all officers holding honorary or acting appoint-
    ments in the same rank. Acting officers shall rank amongst them-
    selves according to the dates of their acting appointments.

  5. All commands shall belong to the senior combatant officer
    present on duty, irrespective of the branch of the service to which
    he belongs.

Precedence of Warrant Officers and N.C.Os.

  1. Warrant officers and N.C.Os. of Permanent Staff and Per-
    manent Force shall rank senior to N.C.Os. of Militia and Volunteers
    in their own grades.

  2. The following is relative rank of N.C.Os. (those in each class
    shall rank amongst themselves according to the date of their
    appointments):

1st class: Master Gunner, Staff sergeant-major instructor.

2nd class: Division or battalion sergeant-major, and band-
master.

3rd class: Division or battalion Q.M.-sergeant, farrier Q.M.-
sergeant, and drum-major.

4th class: Battery or company sergeant-major, colour-sergeant,
battery or company Q.M.-sergeant.

5th class: Sergeant, armourer-sergeant, farrier-sergeant, band-
sergeant, sergeant-bugler, lance-sergeant.

6th class: Bombardier, corporal, acting-bombardier, lance-
corporal.

  1. All commands in the absence of an active combatant officer
    shall belong to the senior combatant warrant officer or N.C.O. pre-
    sent on duty, irrespective of the branch of the service to which he
    belongs.

PERMANENT STAFF.

  1. All officers of the Permanent Staff shall hold commissions in
    the New Zealand Militia, unless they hold commissions in the Im-
    perial Regular Forces. No officer of the Permanent Staff shall hold
    any commission in the Volunteer Force.

  2. Staff officers shall be appointed by the Governor on the
    recommendation of the Defence Minister, and shall be given posi-
    tions in the New Zealand Militia if they do not already hold com-
    missions in the Imperial Army.



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