Clause 23

Subsection (1) of section 28 of the Ordinance is hereby deleted and the following substituted therefor: —“(1) Any person on whom an enlistment notice has been served under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been called out under the provisions of any written law for the time being in force relating to the armed forces, and if he fails to comply with such enlistment notice may for the purpose of such written law be deemed to be a deserter, and any person failing to comply with a police enrolment notice, a vigilante corps enrolment notice or an enrolment notice shall be deemed to be absent without leave according to the provisions of the written law governing the police force, the vigilante corps or the civil defence force, as the case may be, notwithstanding that he has not been previously at the place where his duty requires him to be.”.