Dec. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3205

SCHEDULE.

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.

I, A.B., do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to our Sovereign Lord the King, his heirs and successors, and that I will faithfully serve in the New Zealand Naval Forces, and will observe and obey all orders of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and of the officers set over me, until I shall be lawfully discharged. So help me God.

APPENDIX Va.

Naval Defence Amendment Act.

1922, No. 6.

AN ACT to amend the Naval Defence Act, 1913.

[23rd August, 1922.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:—

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Naval Defence Amendment Act, 1922, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Naval Defence Act, 1913 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Sections 4, 6, 7, and 8 of principal Act amended.

2. The principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—
   (a) By inserting after the word “commissions” in section four, the words “or warrants”; and by inserting after the word, “commission” in sections six and seven, the words “or warrant”:
   (b) By omitting from subsection one of section eight the words “Warrant officers.”

Section 10 of the principal Act amended.

3. Section ten of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—
   (a) By omitting from subsection two the words “but no prescribed period shall be less than two years,” and substituting the words “not exceeding, in the case of a person under the age of eighteen years, the period required by him to attain the age of thirty years, and not exceeding in any other case a period of twelve years.”
   (b) By omitting from subsection three the words “but that period shall not exceed the time required for him to attain the age of thirty years.”

Section 21 of principal Act amended.

4. Section twenty-one of the principal Act, as amended by subsection two of section forty-six of the Finance Act, 1921–22, is hereby amended by repealing subsection one and substituting the following subsection:—
   “(1) In addition to the permanent Naval Forces raised under this Act there is hereby established a New Zealand Royal Naval Reserve consisting of—
   “(a) Men drafted to the Reserve pursuant to this Act:
   “(b) Men who have served in the King’s Navy and have been drafted to the Reserve:
   “(c) Men who, pursuant to regulations, enlist for service in the Reserve.”

Additional power to make regulations under principal Act.

5. The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations under section twenty-five of the principal Act—
   (a) Authorizing the discharge of officers and seamen during their periods of service:
   (b) Providing for the enlistment of persons as members of the New Zealand Royal Naval Reserve:
   (c) Prescribing terms of service in the Reserve, and regulating the training of officers and men therein:
   (d) Prescribing rates of payments to members of the Reserve while on service therein, or by way of retaining-fees or gratuities:
   (e) Providing for the discharge of members of the Reserve.

Repeal.

6. Section forty-six of the Finance Act, 1921–22, is hereby repealed.

Governor-General may delegate certain powers under principal Act.

7. (1) The Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, delegate to the Minister of Defence, or to any officer or officers of the New Zealand Naval Forces named in such Warrant, all or any of the powers conferred on him by subsection one of section seventeen, or by paragraph (b) or paragraph (d) of subsection one of section twenty, of the principal Act.
   (2) Any powers so delegated shall be exercised subject to such conditions or restrictions as the Governor-General may impose.
   (3) Any such Warrant may in like manner be at any time revoked, or be from time to time varied or amended.

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