Colonial Naval Defence Act 1931

2 Colonial naval forces

(1) Where the legislature of any colony has made provision for raising a force for the naval defence of the colony within its territorial waters, that legislature may, with the approval of His Majesty in Council, further provide that all or any of the officers and men of that force—

(a) shall, whether serving ashore or afloat or within or without the limits of the colony, be subject to all the enactments and regulations for the time being in force for the enforcement of discipline in the Royal Navy, with such modifications and adaptations as may be made by the legislature to adapt those enactments and regulations to the circumstances of the colony;

(b) shall be liable to service and training in any ship, establishment or other place without the limits of the colony, whether belonging to the colony or hot;

(c) shall, in the case of officers or men entered on the express terms of accepting general service in the Royal Navy in emergency, form part of the Royal Naval Reserve or of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve or that some shall form part of the Royal Naval Reserve and others of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve :

Provided that the enactments and regulations for the time being in force relating to officers and men of the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve raised in the United Kingdom shall not, subject to the provisions of the next following subsection, apply to officers or men raised by a colony except in so far as those enactments and regulations may be applied by the legislature of the colony under the foregoing provisions of this subsection.

(2) His Majesty in Council may, on such conditions as he thinks fit, authorise the Admiralty to accept any offer made by the Government of a colony to place at His Majesty's disposal for general service in the Royal Navy the whole or any number of the officers or men of the force raised by the colony as aforesaid, and while any such officers and men are at the disposal of His Majesty—

(a) such of them as do not form part either of the Royal Naval Reserve or of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve shall be subject to all the enactments and regulations for the time being in force relating to officers and men of the Royal Navy;

(b) such of them as form part of the Royal Naval Reserve shall be subject to all the enactments and regulations for the time being in force relating to officers and men of the Royal Naval Reserve raised in the United Kingdom while in actual service;

(c) such of them as form part of the Royal .Naval Volunteer Reserve shall be subject to all the enactments and regulations for the time being in force relating to officers and men of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve raised in the United Kingdom while in actual service :

Provided that the amount of the pay, wages, pensions, grants and other emoluments of any such officers and men while at the disposal of His Majesty, or of their wives, widows, children or other dependants, shall be such as may be determined by the legislature of the colony.