Clause 42

Any volunteer performing reserve service may, on giving three months’ notice in writing of his desire to be released from service in the Force, be so released by the Commandant.

No national serviceman shall be released from reserve service before he has completed seven years of such service unless and until his enlistment notice has been duly cancelled or amended by the proper authority under the provisions of any written law for the time being in force relating to national service or unless he has completed a total period of ten years’ service under the provisions of such written law.