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NAVAL RESERVE.

  1. Mobilisation and Calling Out, p. 1.
  2. Pay, Pension, and Allowances, p. 2 .

1. Mobilization and Calling Out.


Proclamation, Dated August 3, 1914, Calling out men of the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Fleet Reserve, and Officers and Men of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

1914. No. 1176.

By The King.

A Proclamation for Calling out Men of the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Fleet Reserve, and Officers and Men of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

George R.I.

Whereas , by the fourth section of the Royal Naval Reserve (Volunteer) Act, 1859,[1] it is enacted that it shall be lawful for Us on such occasions as We shall deem fit (the occasion being first communicated to Parliament if Parliament be sitting or declared in Council and notified by Proclamation if Parliament be not sitting or in being) to order and direct that the Volunteers under that Act, or so many or such part of them as We may deem necessary, shall be called into actual service:

And whereas by the Royal Naval Reserve Volunteer Act, 1896,[2] as amended by the Royal Naval Reserve Act, 1902,[3] it is enacted that the power under the said Act of 1859 to raise and pay Volunteers may be exercised outside the British Islands in respect of British subjects:

And whereas by the Naval Reserve Act, 1900,[4] the Admiralty are authorized to raise and keep up a new division, commonly known as the Royal Fleet Reserve , of the force raised under the said first recited Act in addition to the men raised under that Act, and such new division is liable to be called out as part of the Royal Naval Reserve under the said fourth section of the said Act of 1859:

And whereas by the Naval Forces Act, 1903,[5] it is provided that the Admiralty may raise and maintain a force to be called the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and that certain provisions of the said Act of 1859 (including the fourth section of that Act) as amended by any subsequent enactment shall apply to the force so raised:

And whereas by the first section of the Naval Reserve (Mobilisation) Act, 1900 [6] amending the said Act of 1859, it is enacted

  1. ↑ (a) 22-3 V. c. 40.
  2. ↑ (b) 59-60 V. c. 33.
  3. ↑ (c) 2 E. 7. c. 5.
  4. ↑ (d) 63-4 V. c. 52.
  5. ↑ (e) 3 E. 7. c. 6.
  6. ↑ (f) 63-4 V. c. 17.
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