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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 38

(a.) When undergoing courses of instruction or attachment to the Regular Army in England or in India for periods of more than one year.
(b.) When their services are lent to any other Department of the State for more than one year.
(c.) For any other special service approved by the G.O.C.
No officer will remain seconded for a period of more than four years without being regazetted.

127. Officers of the Territorial Force may be seconded for service on the Staff, for service with the Senior Cadets, or for any other service authorized by the G.O.C. When seconded for service on the Staff, an officer of the Territorial Force will be entitled to the pay attached to the appointment which he holds.

128. Officers who propose to be absent with leave from the Dominion for a period of more than one year may be seconded in their units.

Warrant Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers.

PERMANENT FORCE (R.N.Z.A.)

129. The enlistment, appointment, promotion, and discharge of warrant officers, N.C.O.s, and men of the Permanent Force (subject to paras. 137 and 138) will be in the hands of the O.C.P.F. Depot, Wellington, in accordance with the authorized establishments and with the rules laid down from time to time.

130. All applicants for enlistment must be between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, must be unmarried, must have passed the Fourth Standard of education or its equivalent, and will be required to pass a medical examination in accordance with Appendix III.

131. Enlistments will be for a term of eight years, of which five years will be with the colours and three years in the Reserve. During the first six months of their service recruits will be on probation at the P.F. Depot, Wellington, and will be liable to be discharged if found unsuitable.

132. N.C.O.s and men may claim their discharge at any time after completion of their original term of engagement, unless a state of great emergency or imminent national danger has been declared.

133. N.C.O.s and men may, subject to the recommendation of their O.C. detachment or cadre, be re-engaged for terms of five years up to fifty-five years of age.

134. N.C.O.s and men may purchase their discharge before the completion of three years’ service on payment of £10, and at any time during the succeeding two years on payment of the sum of £5.

135. N.C.O.s and men may be discharged on completion of their term of engagement with the colours.

136. Warrant officers, N.C.O.s, and men of the Permanent Force will be discharged on completion of thirty-five years’ service, or on reaching the age of fifty-five (vide New Zealand Public Service Classification and Superannuation Acts).

137. In the case of warrant officers and artificers the G.O.C. may, at his discretion, permit continuance in the Force up to sixty years of age.

138. Warrant officers of the Permanent Force will be appointed on the recommendation of the G.O.C.

PERMANENT STAFF.

139. The enlistment, appointment, promotion, and discharge of warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Permanent Staff will be in the hands of the Adjutant-General at Headquarters, subject to para. 140.

140. Applicants for enlistment in or appointment to the Permanent Staff must be between twenty-two and forty years of age. Enlistments will be for a term of five years, of which the first six months will be on probation. While on probation candidates may be discharged at any time if found unsuitable. Members of the Permanent Staff may, on the recommendation of the Adjutant-General, be re-engaged for terms of five years up to fifty-five years of age, if below the rank of warrant officer. Warrant officers may be allowed, at the discretion of the G.O.C., to continue to serve up to the age of sixty. Promotion will be by selection.

141. Members of the Permanent Staff may claim their discharge at any time after completion of their original term of engagement, except in case of great emergency or imminent national danger. They may purchase their discharge before completion of three years’ service on payment of £10, and at any time during the next succeeding two years on payment of £5.

142. To qualify for superannuation, members of the Permanent Staff must comply with the conditions of the New Zealand Public Service Classification and Superannuation Acts.

143. Officers Commanding Districts will submit from time to time the names of warrant and non-commissioned officers of the Permanent Force, Territorial Force, or other applicants recommended to fill vacancies on the Permanent Staff.

TERRITORIAL FORCE.

144. Recommendations for the appointment of warrant officers will be made by O.C. units or corps and will be forwarded to Headquarters through O.C. Districts; their final appointment will be subject to the recommendation of the G.O.C.

145. The appointment and promotion of the non-commissioned officers and men of the Territorial Force will be in the hands of the O.C. units and corps.

146. O.sC. Districts may, in cases of well-ascertained necessity, sanction the appointment of a small number of lance-sergeants, lance-corporals, and acting-bombardiers in excess of the establishment.

147. N.C.O.s and men of the Territorial Force who change their place of residence from one area group to another are liable to be transferred to another unit of the Territorial Force of the same arm of the service, if possible.

148. No non-commissioned officer shall be appointed or promoted until he has passed such qualifying examination as may from time to time be prescribed.

149. Non-commissioned officers may, with their Commanding Officer’s consent, resign their rank and revert to the rank or position they previously held; but, without the sanction of the O.C. District, they are not to be allowed to do so in order to escape trial by Court-martial.

150. For inefficiency, or a cause other than an offence, a soldier may be removed from his appointment by order of his Commanding Officer, and will in that case revert to his permanent rank, remaining as a supernumerary in that rank until absorbed into the first vacancy.

151. An acting non-commissioned officer can be ordered by his Commanding Officer to revert to his permanent rank. The permanent rank of a lance-sergeant is corporal; that of a lance-corporal is private; that of an acting-bombardier is gunner.

152. A non-commissioned officer reduced to a lower rank will take rank and precedence in that lower rank from the date of the signing of the original sentence of the Court-martial, or, in the case of reduction by order of the O.C. District, from the date of such order.

153. N.C.O.s of the rank of sergeant and upwards on reaching the age of twenty-five will be permitted to continue to serve with their units or corps, under agreement for a further period of two years, such periods to be renewable on the recommendation of their commanding officer. Subject to the above conditions, warrant officers and non-commissioned officers may continue to serve in the Territorial Force up to the following ages:—

Sergeants .. 40
Staff sergeants and colour-sergeants .. 45
Warrant officers .. 50

Territorial Force Reserve.

154. Men of the Territorial Force will be transferred to the Reserve in the ordinary course on reaching the age of twenty-five, and will remain in the Reserve until they attain the age of thirty.

155. The transfer to the Reserve of N.C.O.s above the rank of corporal is regulated by para. 153. Men of the Territorial Force may, subject to the upkeep of establishment, be transferred to the Reserve at the discretion of their Commanding Officer before reaching the age of twenty-five, provided that they have not less than four years service in the Territorial Force, have reached the 1st class standard of efficiency, and have been certified as of good character throughout their Senior Cadet and Territorial Force service.

156. Reservists will not be organized in units, but will carry out their training with Territorial Force units, if possible, with those units on the Reserve List of which they are borne, and with which they will serve on mobilization.

157. The details of Reserve Training is laid down in para. 229.

158. On transfer to the Reserve, a Reservist will continue to be borne on the books of his unit or corps, being shown on the Reserve List. He will hand in his arms and accoutrements, and will retain his uniform. Should he change his place of residence to another area, he may be transferred to the Reserve List of a unit in that group.

SECTION V.—REGISTRATION, ENROLMENT, AND POSTING.

Registration.

159. All persons as they become liable under the Defence Acts for training in the Military Forces are required to register themselves in the area in which they reside. Registration forms are obtainable at any post-office, police-station, or Defence Office. The form must be filled in and posted or handed to the Area Sergeant-major as follows:—

(1.) By boys who are attending a school giving primary education and who are receiving such primary education, or by the school authorities on their behalf, in April of the