Reserve Force Act 1859
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1859 c. 42 |
(22 & 23 Vict.) C A P. XLII.
[13th August 1859]
'WHEREAS it is expedient that Her Majesty should be enabled to enrol as a Reserve Force for Service within the United Kingdom in Cases of Emergency such of the Men who have served in Her other Forces as may be willing to engage for such Service:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
I Reserve Force not exceeding 20,000 Men for Service in Great Britain.
I. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, from Time to Time, to cause to be enrolled and kept up as a Reserve Force in the United Kingdom any Number of Men not exceeding in the whole Twenty thousand, the Men so enrolled to be Persons who shall have previously served in Her Majesty's other Forces or in the Forces of theEast India Company, and who may voluntarily engage to serve under this Act; and such Reserve Force shall be formed into or attached to such Battalions, Corps, or Companies as Her Majesty may think fit.
II Term of Service to be prescribed by Regulations, &c.
II. The Men to be enrolled as aforesaid shall be engaged to serve for such Term of Years or for such respective Terms, having regard to their previous Periods of Service, as shall be directed by the Regulations under this Act, and every Person so engaging to serve shall make and sign a Declaration in such Form as with reference to the Terms of his Engagement may be prescribed by such Regulations.
III Appointment of Officers.
III. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint to the Force under this Act such Officers and Non-commissioned Officers of Her Majesty's other Forces, or of the Forces of theEast India Company, whether from Full or Half Pay or from the Pension List, as may be deemed expedient, and to put the whole or any Part of the Force under the Command of such General or other Superior Officers of the same Forces as Her Majesty shall please to appoint.
IV Force to be called out for 12 Days in each Year.
IV. The Men enrolled under this Act shall be called out for Training and Exercise at such Place or Places within the United Kingdom, and for such Time or Times not exceeding Twelve Days in any Year, as Her Majesty through One of Her Principal Secretaries of State shall direct.
V Reserve Force may be called out in aid of the Civil Power.
V. It shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or inIreland for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor of Ireland , at any Time when the Occasion may appear to them respectively to...
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