Bermuda Cadet Corps Act 1944

[21 October 1944]

[preamble and words of enactment omitted]

Bermuda Cadet Corps continued

1 (1) Subject to this Act, the Bermuda Cadet Corps heretofore known as "The Bermuda Cadet Corps" shall continue to subsist under that name.

(2) The general purpose of the Bermuda Cadet Corps shall be to provide elementary military training and discipline for boys attending the schools of Bermuda and for other boys as hereinafter in this Act provided.

Commandant and officers of Bermuda Cadet Corps

2 (1) The Bermuda Cadet Corps shall be under the command of a Commandant who shall be appointed by the Governor and who shall hold office for such period not exceeding five years as may be specified in his appointment and who shall be eligible for reappointment:

Provided that if at any time a person holding the office of Com mandant becomes, in the opinion of the Governor, unfit or unsuitable to continue in office the Governor may remove him from office by notice in writing sent by registered post and addressed to him at his last known place of residence.

(2) There shall be such number of other officers of the Bermuda Cadet Corps, of such ranks, as the Governor may from time to time think necessary and every such officer shall be appointed by the Governor and shall hold office during the Governor's pleasure.

(3) No officer of the Bermuda Cadet Corps shall be promoted or reduced in rank without the prior approval of the Governor.

Constitution of Bermuda Cadet Corps

3 The Bermuda Cadet Corps shall consist of the Commandant, of ficers and cadets of the Bermuda Cadet Corps, the cadets being school boys attending the schools of Bermuda and other boys (under the age of eighteen years) enrolled in the Bermuda Cadet Corps in accor dance with rules made under section 5.

Governor to have management and control of Bermuda Cadet Corps

4 (1) The general control and management of the Bermuda Cadet Corps and of its finances and property shall be vested in the Governor.

(2) In the exercise of his functions under subsection (1), the Governor shall appoint a Committee of Management which shall be com posed of the Adjutant of the Bermuda Regiment as Chairman and one representative from each school in Bermuda having schoolboys en rolled as cadets of the Bermuda Cadet Corps.

(3) The Committee of Management referred to in subsection (2) shall carry into effect the policy and instructions of the Governor in rela tion to the control and management of the Bermuda Cadet Corps and, when necessary, shall advise the Governor as to the practicability or oth erwise of any instructions which the Governor may wish to have carried into effect.

Rules

5 The Governor may make rules generally for the efficient control and management of the Bermuda Cadet Corps, its activities and prop erty, and in particular may by such rules provide for prescribing the conditions under which schoolboys generally, or the boys of any school,

or boys who are not schoolboys, may be enrolled as cadets of the Bermuda Cadet Corps; and for the division of the Bermuda Cadet Corps into units; and for regulating the appointment of non-commissioned offi cers among the cadets of the Bermuda Cadet Corps; and for prescribing the uniforms and badges to be worn by members of the Bermuda Cadet Corps.

Governor to receive funds and gifts for Bermuda Cadet Corps

6 The Governor shall have power to receive any funds appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes of the Bermuda Cadet Corps, and any funds or gifts in kind given or bequeathed for the purposes of the Bermuda Cadet Corps, and, subject to any terms, conditions or direc tions expressed in any such appropriation, gift, or bequest, shall apply all such funds or gifts in furtherance of the purposes of the Bermuda Cadet Corps in such manner as he thinks fit.

[Amended by:
1951 : 102
1959 : 16
1965 : 165
1968 : 139]

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Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

Bermuda Cadet Corps Act 1944