Clause 15

Subject to the following provisions of this part any person who has completed the period of full-time service for which he was required to serve (hereinafter in this part referred to as “the period of full-time service”), shall be transferred to the national service reserve and shall serve therein for a period of ten years starting with the day following that on which he completed his period of full-time service or until attaining the age of forty years whichever is the later.(2) Any person called up for part-time service under the provisions of this Ordinance who has had his period of service shortened under the provisions of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 16K of this Ordinance shall be transferred to the national service reserve and shall serve therein for the remainder of such period.National service reserve may be recalled by notice16C.—

Any person transferred to the national service reserve under section 16B of this ordinance may be recalled for full-time service by notice served on him by the proper authority.(2) Such notice may be a specific notice directed to the person being recalled or a general notice directed to a category or categories of persons recalled.(3) Every person recalled under subsection (1) of this section shall report for service at such time and place as the proper authority may specify in the notice.(4) Any person in the national service reserve upon being recalled for full-time service by notice under this section shall, if he fails without any reasonable excuse to report in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to both such imprisonment and fine.Retention of national servicemen in full-time service16D. Where the proper authority has issued any notice under the provisions of section 16C of this Ordinance he may order that any person who would otherwise fall to be transferred to the national service reserve on completion of his period of full-time service shall continue in full-time service.Service required of national service reservists recalled or retained for full-time service16E.—

Subject to the provisions of this section a person who is recalled for or retained in full-time service by virtue of section 16C or 16D of this Ordinance shall be liable to serve in full-time service until his services are no longer required.(2) No person shall be detained in full-time service by virtue of this section later than the expiration of twelve months after the date on which apart from this section he would fall to be discharged from the national service reserve.Liability of national service reservists for training16F.—

During the period of his service in the national service reserve a person may be called out for training for any periods not exceeding in the aggregate forty days in any year of that service.(2) The proper authority may serve or cause to be served upon any person in the national service reserve a training notice which shall state that he is called out for training and the period for which he is called out and shall require him to present himself at such time and place on such day (not earlier than the fourteenth day after the date of the service of the notice), and to such authority, as may be specified in the notice.(3) Where a training notice has been served on any person, the proper authority may at any time before the date on which he is thereby required to present himself cause to be served on him a supplementary notice varying the training notice by altering the place or time at which, but not the date on which, he is thereby required to present himself.(4) Every training notice served otherwise than by registered post shall require the person upon whom it is served to acknowledge receipt thereof within such time as may be specified in the requirement; and if acknowledgment is not received the proper authority may cause a further training notice to be served on him by registered post and may by that notice direct that the former notice shall be deemed never to have had effect.(5) If at any time during a person’s period of service in the national service reserve any change occurs in his name or address, he shall forthwith notify the change to such person and in such manner as may be prescribed; and if he fails to do so he shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance.Attachment of national service reservists to armed forces during training16G. A person in the national service reserve may during any period of training for which he is called out under the provisions of section 16G of this Ordinance be attached to and trained with any body of the armed forces.Application of sections 20 and 21 in respect of national service reservists16H. The provisions of sections 20 and 21 of this Ordinance shall apply in respect of any person in the national service reserve as they apply in respect of any person called out or liable to be called out for full-time service under the provisions of this Ordinance.Exemptions from service in the national service reserve16I. It shall be lawful for the proper authority to grant exemption to any person from the provisions of section 16B of this Ordinance or to shorten the period of service in the national service reserve of any person if it appears necessary or expedient to that authority so to do.Punishment for inducing a national service reservist to desert or absent himself16J.—

Any person who by any means whatsoever —

procures or persuades any person in the national service reserve to desert or attempts to procure or persuade any such person to desert;

knowing that a person as aforesaid is about to desert, aids or assists him in so doing; or

knowing any such person to be a deserter, conceals such person or aids or assists him in concealing himself, or aids or assists him in his rescue,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to both such imprisonment and fine.(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall apply to absence without leave and absentees without leave as it applies to desertion and deserters, but with the substitution for the reference to such imprisonment or fine as is therein specified of a reference to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.PART VIIBTerm Or Period Of ServiceTerm or period of service of person called up for national service16K.—

A person who is called up for national service in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable to render —

two years’ full-time service;

twelve years’ part-time service or until attaining the age of forty years whichever is the later; or

such shorter period as may be determined by the proper authority.(2) A person who has been called up for part-time service shall be liable for up to eight hours basic training a week and one week-end full-time in-camp training a month for the first six months to be followed by up to three hours duty per week thereafter including one week full-time in-camp training each year.(3) The proper authority may direct that a person who has been called up for national service be transferred from one form of service to another and such transfer shall not cause any loss of service.”.