Pursuant to the Royal Warrant (SR 1954/10) dated 1 February 1950 instituting and creating the Cadet Forces Medal (as amended by the Royal Warrants (SR 1969/280; SR 1989/325) dated 8 January 1955, 20 June 1960, 21 December 1964, and 30 November 1971), the Minister of Defence hereby makes the following regulations for the purposes of the Cadet Forces Medal and Clasp in relation to the cadet forces raised in New Zealand, approved by Her Majesty the Queen.

Regulations

1 Title and commencement

(1) These regulations may be cited as the New Zealand Cadet Forces Medal Regulations 1989.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

2 Interpretation

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

the Medal means the Cadet Forces Medal instituted and created under the Royal Warrant

the Royal Warrant means the Royal Warrant dated 1 February 1950 instituting and creating the Medal (as amended from time to time by subsequent Royal Warrants).

3 Power to make awards

Power to award the Medal, and Clasps to the Medal, in New Zealand shall be vested in the Minister of Defence.

4 Service required for Medal

(1) The period of service required for the Medal is 12 years qualifying service subsequent to 3 September 1926 (inclusive).
(2) Qualifying service shall be made up of service of 1 or more of the following kinds (together with such other service, if any, as may be counted under subclause (3)):
- (a) service as a Commissioned Officer, Chief Petty Officer Instructor, or Petty Officer Instructor with the New Zealand Sea Cadet Corps or the New Zealand Navy League Sea Cadet Corps:
- (b) service as a Commissioned Officer with the New Zealand Cadet Corps:
- (c) service as a Commissioned Officer with the New Zealand Air Training Corps:
- (d) service as a Commissioned Officer with the Secondary School Cadets.
(3) Subject to subclause (4), service of 1 or more of the following kinds may be counted towards qualifying service:
- (a) service as a Commissioned Officer, Chief Petty Officer Instructor, or Petty Officer Instructor with any officially recognised cadet forces of any other Commonwealth country of which the Queen is head of State:
- (b) service which has interrupted continuous qualifying service and which consists of commissioned or other service—
  - (i) during hostilities in the armed forces or merchant navy of New Zealand or any other Commonwealth country; or
  - (ii) involving liability to regular training during peacetime in the reserve or auxiliary forces of New Zealand or any other Commonwealth country of which the Queen is head of State; or
  - (iii) of a compulsory full-time nature during peacetime in the armed forces of New Zealand or any other Commonwealth country of which the Queen is head of State:
- (c) service on or after 1 July 1971 as a cadet aged 18 years or more in any of the cadet forces of New Zealand or in any officially recognised cadet forces of any other Commonwealth country of which the Queen is head of State.
(4) Service may not be counted towards qualifying service under subclause (3) if it has been recognised by any similar award under the regulations of another Commonwealth country or by any alternative award for efficiency or long service.

5 Service required for Clasps

A Clasp to the Medal may be awarded—
- (a) for each additional 12 years qualifying service completed before 1 July 1971; or
- (b) for each additional 8 years qualifying service completed on or after 1 July 1971.

6 Honorary rank

Service in an honorary rank other than as bandmaster shall not be qualifying service.

7 Continuity of service

(1) Subject to subclauses (2) and (3), qualifying service shall be continuous.
(2) The Minister of Defence may in his or her discretion make exceptions—
- (a) in the case of any break in qualifying service not exceeding 6 months; or
- (b) in the case of any break not exceeding 3 years in qualifying service with the cadet forces of New Zealand where the officer or instructor—
  - (i) was, although residing in New Zealand, unable to continue service because of any change in place of residence or circumstances of civilian employment; but
  - (ii) remained on the strength of a unit of the cadet forces or, if posted off, applied within 1 month to be reposted to a unit of the cadet forces; or
- (c) in the case of any break not exceeding 3 years in qualifying service with the cadet forces of New Zealand where the officer or instructor—
  - (i) was required by civilian employment to work outside New Zealand; but
  - (ii) remained on the strength of a unit of the cadet forces or, if posted off, applied to be reposted to a unit of the cadet forces within 1 month after resuming residence in New Zealand:
- (d) in the case of any break in qualifying service not exceeding 3 years where the officer or instructor—
  - (i) was immediately before the break serving with the cadet forces of another Commonwealth country of which the Queen is head of State; and
  - (ii) having taken up residence in New Zealand, applied within 1 month to be posted to a unit of the cadet forces of New Zealand.
(3) Additional qualifying service required for the award of a Clasp to the Medal need not be continuous.

8 Register of recipients

A Register of those to whom the Medal or a Clasp to the Medal have been awarded in New Zealand shall be maintained by the Secretary of Defence.

9 Publication

Notice of awards of the Medal or of a Clasp to the Medal shall be published in the Gazette.

10 Forfeiture

If the service of any holder of the Medal or of a Clasp to the Medal is terminated for misconduct or for neglect of duty, the Medal or Clasp shall, at the discretion of the Minister of Defence, be forfeited and may be recovered by the Minister.

11 Restoration

A Medal or Clasp forfeited under regulation 10 may be restored at the discretion of the Minister of Defence.

12 Revocation

The New Zealand Cadet Forces Medal Regulations 1969 (SR 1969/281) are hereby revoked.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of October 1989.

R J Tizard,
Minister of Defence.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette, revoke and replace the New Zealand Cadet Forces Medal Regulations 1969.

The regulations are made under the Royal Warrant dated 1 February 1950, as amended by Royal Warrants dated 8 January 1955, 20 June 1960, 21 December 1964, and 30 November 1971.

The regulations make a number of minor changes of detail relating to qualifying service. More significantly, the new regulations add to the kinds of service that may be counted towards qualifying service, service as a cadet aged 18 years or more in any of the cadet forces of New Zealand or any Commonwealth country of which the Queen is head of State.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 2 November 1989.

1General
2Status of reprints
3How reprints are prepared
4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989
5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes

1 General

This is a reprint of the New Zealand Cadet Forces Medal Regulations 1989. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the regulations as at 3 November 1989, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/ .

2 Status of reprints

Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:
- •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)
- •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)
- •layout of provisions, including:
  - •indentation
  - •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)
- •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)
- •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)
- •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)
- •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)
- •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly
- •case and appearance of letters and words, including:
  - •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)
  - •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters
- •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly
- •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)
- •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

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