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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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List, New Zealand Medical Corps, on vacating their appointment to an Ambulance.

118. Chaplains.—Chaplains will be recommended by O.C. Districts for promotion as follows:—

After ten years’ service, to Chaplain Third Class, ranking as Major.

After eighteen years’ service, to Chaplain Second Class, ranking as Lieut.-Colonel.

119. Promotions to the rank of Chaplain First Class, ranking as Colonel, will be made on the recommendation of the G.O.C. as required.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.

120. Officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps and New Zealand Permanent Force after the termination of any engagement under which they are serving, and officers of the Territorial Force after four years’ commissioned service, may, if under the age laid down for retirement for their rank, be transferred to the Reserve of Officers, when they will remain liable to be called out in case of national emergency.

121. Officers of the Reserve of Officers may resign their commissions at any time after reaching thirty years of age.

122. Officers of the Reserve of Officers will not be called upon to perform any training.

123. There will be no promotion in the Reserve of Officers.

124. All officers of the Reserve of Officers will report themselves in writing on the 1st January each year to the Assistant Military Secretary, Headquarters, New Zealand Military Forces, Wellington, giving their address for the current year; except officers shown on the Reserve List of units, who will report themselves to the Adjutant of the unit to which they belong. Any subsequent change of address will be notified in the same manner. Any officer failing to report himself in accordance with this regulation will be removed from the Reserve of Officers at the end of the year.

125. Officers will be removed from the list of the Reserve of Officers on reaching the age of fifty-five.

RETIREMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS.

Retired List.

126. Officers of the Military Forces, after completing fifteen years’ commissioned service, may be retired with permission to retain their rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Such officers will be placed on the Retired List, which will be published in the New Zealand Army List. Officers on the Retired List will have no liability for service and no further connection with the Military Forces.

Ages for Retirement.

127. Officers of the Military Forces shall be compulsorily retired at the ages set forth in the following table, but in special cases the G.O.C. may grant extensions for a period not exceeding two years:—

Local or temporary rank will not be considered in regard to the age for retirement.

128. The ages for retirement of officers of the New Zealand Medical Corps will be five years in excess of that laid down in para. 127 for other officers of the Territorial Force.

129. Officers may be retained on the Unattached List (b), for service with the Senior Cadets, after the age for retirement laid down for officers of the Territorial Force.

Retirements.

130. Candidates for commissions in the New Zealand Staff Corps and R.N.Z.A. before being admitted to the Royal Australian Military College will be required to sign an agreement giving an undertaking that they will serve for a period of twelve years from the date of such admission unless their services are dispensed with by higher authority before that time. Subject to this proviso, officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps and R.N.Z.A. may resign their commissions at any time.

131. Officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps and R.N.Z.A. sent out of the Dominion for training at the expense of the Government will sign an agreement giving an undertaking that they will not resign their commissions for a period of five years after their return to New Zealand.

132. An officer of the Territorial Force may resign his commission at any time, but if within the military age, and not transferred to the Reserve of Officers under para. 120, will be required to complete the unexpired period of his obligatory military service in the ranks of the Territorial Force or in the Reserve.

133. An officer of the Territorial Force may be required to resign his commission if—

(1.) Absent without leave for more than three months;

(2.) Unsatisfactorily reported on in two successive years;

(3.) Found medically unfit.

In every case except (3) he will, if within the military age, be required to complete the training to which he is liable in the ranks of the Territorial Force or in the Reserve.

134. An officer whose commission is cancelled under section 5 (a) of the Defence Act, 1909, will complete the training to which he may be liable as in subparagraphs (1) and (2).

TRANSFERS.

135. Officers may be transferred from the R.N.Z.A. to the New Zealand Staff Corps and vice versa with the approval of the G.O.C. Officers so transferred will retain their rank and seniority.

136. An officer of the Territorial Force transferred from one unit or corps to another unit or corps, or from the Unattached List to a unit or corps, will rank as a junior of his rank in his new unit or corps. All officers serving together with officers of other units or corps shall take rank according to the dates of their respective appointments to that rank in the Military Forces. Officers so transferred will have placed against their names in the New Zealand Army List the date they were transferred to the new unit or corps, and also the date of their original commission in that rank.

SECONDING.

137. Officers of the R.N.Z.A. may be seconded for service on the Staff or for any other service authorized by the G.O.C. Officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps or R.N.Z.A. will be seconded—

(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.

138. 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 (if any) attached to the appointment which he holds.

139. 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.

ROYAL NEW ZEALAND ARTILLERY.

140. The enlistment, appointment, promotion, and discharge of warrant officers, N.C.O.s, and men of the R.N.Z.A. (subject to paras. 148 and 149) will be in the hands of the O.C. R.N.Z.A. Depot, Wellington, in accordance with the authorized establishments and with the rules laid down from time to time.

141. 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 I.

142. 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 R.N.Z.A. Depot, Wellington, and will be liable to be discharged at the discretion of O.C. Depot, if found unsuitable.

143. W.O.s, 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.

144. W.O.s, 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, subject to the limit laid down in para. 147.

145. 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.

146. N.C.O.s and men shall, unless re-engaged under para. 144, be discharged on completion of their term of engagement with the colours.