on application, be exempted by any prescribed authority from the prescribed training, but shall on ceasing to be such students undergo such equivalent training as prescribed, unless exempted by some provision of the Act.
The Governor-General may by proclamation grant a temporary exemption for a period not exceeding one year to—
(a) Persons who reside outside the areas in which training is carried out;
(b) Persons who reside at so great a distance from the places appointed for training that compulsory attendance at the training would involve great hardships.
For the present, persons who “are not substantially of European origin” may be trained in non-combatant duties as a separate squad—i.e., they may be trained to perform duties of a clerical nature.
Uniforms will not be issued to them unless orders are given to that effect.
ORGANISATION OF SENIOR CADETS.
All those liable to be trained as Senior Cadets shall be allotted to the Naval or Military Forces, and shall be trained in the elementary Naval or Military exercises, and in musketry on open ranges up to distances of 500 yards, and shall be organised in Naval or Military units.
Senior Cadets, not allotted to the Naval Forces, will be organised in battalions, each battalion being raised in a Battalion Area, and numbered according to the number of the Battalion Area in which it is raised.
Battalions will be divided into companies. Com-
