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THE following Regulations under which the services of Volunteers will be accepted are republished from the New Zealand Gazette, of January 20, 1862, for the information of the public.

By order,
W. H. AYLMER,
Clerk to Superintendent.
Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, May 12, 1864.

At the Government House at Auckland, the 16th day of January, 1862.

Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR.
The Hon. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.
The Hon. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Militia Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make, vary, and abolish regulations under which the services of volunteers shall be accepted in any militia district: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf vested in him by the said recited Act, doth hereby make and ordain the following regulations under which the services of volunteers shall be accepted in any militia district, within the Colony:—

1. All such regulations heretofore made are hereby abolished.

2. There shall be no limit to the term of service of any volunteer: Provided that any volunteer shall be entitled to be discharged at the expiration of one month’s notice, in writing given by him to the officer commanding the body of volunteers to which he may belong, of his own desire to be so discharged; and, in case such officer commanding shall be satisfied that urgent necessity exists for the discharge of any such volunteer, before the expiration of the said month’s notice, he may give him his discharge accordingly.

3. Every volunteer shall attend to be trained and exercised at such time and places as shall be appointed, by notice in any Gazette or Newspaper, or by verbal order issued by, or by the authority of the officer commanding the body of volunteers to which he may belong: Provided always that no volunteer shall be compelled to attend more than one hundred and sixty-eight hours in any one year.

4. No volunteer shall be absent during any part of, any time appointed for training and exercise; and every volunteer who shall offend against this regulation, shall for such offence, forfeit and pay any such sum not exceeding one pound, as shall be fixed by the officer commanding, as aforesaid, which sum so fixed shall be recoverable in a summary way, by any officer of the body of volunteers to which the person so offending may belong.

5. No volunteer who shall under previous to the issue of a summons under the foregoing regulations, produce to such officer commanding, as aforesaid, a certificate signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner, that such absence was unavoidably caused by illness, or satisfy the commanding officer of his illness, and no volunteer who shall be absent, having duly obtained leave of absence from such officer commanding, as aforesaid, shall be liable to the penalty set forth in the foregoing regulation.

6. If any volunteer’s arms or accoutrements shall, in the opinion of the officer commanding, as aforesaid, be in a defective or dirty state, he shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding two shillings and sixpence, to be fixed and recoverable in manner as aforesaid.

7. If any arms, accoutrements, or other Government property shall be lost, destroyed, or injured, in any way other than on service, a fine not exceeding the value of the arms, accoutrements, or other Government property, shall be paid by the volunteer in whose charge they were. Such fine shall be fixed by a Board of Officers, appointed for that purpose by the officer commanding, as aforesaid, upon consideration of the circumstances, and if not paid to them on demand may be recovered by the officer commanding, as aforesaid, on behalf of the Government, in any Resident Magistrate’s Court in the colony.

8. If any volunteer shall not deliver to the officer commanding as aforesaid, the arms accoutrements and other Government property entrusted to him as a volunteer, within three days after an order to that effect shall have been given to him by the officer commanding as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty of ten pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.

9. All commissioned officers shall be appointed by the Governor, and names for that purpose shall be submitted to him (though the officer commanding as aforesaid).