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Discharge, in Form B of the Appendix when requested to do so by such Volunteer.

Classification39. Enrolled Members are classed as Efficients and non-Efficients.

Efficients40. An Efficient Member must have fulfilled the conditions prescribed by the Admiralty from time to time.

Non-Efficients.41. All Enrolled Members who do not fulfil the conditions above referred to are reckoned as non-Efficients.


HONORARY MEMBERS.

Number and position42. The number of Honorary Members attached to any Number and Corps is not regulated by the Admiralty, and such Members are not included in the muster-roll of the Corps to which they are attached.

They are not subject to discipline nor allowed to interfere with the duties of the Corps, but they are permitted to wear its uniform, unless a special provision to the contrary is contained in the authorised Rules of the Corps.


RULES.

Must be approved43. In order to give legal force to the Rules of a Corps for the management of its affairs, they must be submitted to the Admiralty for approval.

To be transmitted in duplicate.44. All Rules which are to be forwarded for approval must be transmitted in duplicate, one copy to be retained at the Admiralty, the other to be returned to the Corps, with any alterations that may be required.


COURTS OF INQUIRY.

Nature of45. A Court of Inquiry is not a judicial body; it has no power to administer an oath.

It is to be considered as a Board of which the Admiralty or an Officer in command of a Brigade or Corps may make use, to assist him in arriving at a correct judgment on any subject upon which it may be expedient to institute an inquiry.

Duties of46. The duties of a Court of Inquiry depend on the instructions which the convening authority may think proper to give.

It may be either employed merely in collecting and arranging evidence, or it may, in addition, be directed to give an opinion as to the facts established by that evidence; but it has no power to pronounce any judgment as to the