(a) Recruit or Annual traning of their unit.
(b) Military parades as spectators.
(c) Military or civil functions for which court levee or military uniform is prescribed.
(d) Weddings or funerals at which regimental military officers and gazetted civil officers wear uniform.
(e) When attached to any regular unit for training.
(f) When summoned to an interview by a regular army officer.
CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT - JUNIOR COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, WARRANT OFFICERS, NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN
133. Scale of Clothing and Equipment-Junior Commissioned Officer - Junior Commissioned officers will provide themselves with the scale of clothing as laid down in Appendix XVII out of their out-fit allowance. Subsequent replacement will also be on payment. The scale of equipment, which will be issued free, is laid down in Appendix XVIII.
134. Scale of Clothing and Necessaries - Warrant officers and Other Ranks Warrant Officers and Other Ranks of the Territorial Army will be issued free with the scale of clothing as laid down in Appendix XIX. Subsequent free replacement will be made subject to the periods of wear of the various articles of clothing and necessaries laid down in Appendix XX.
(a) These Territorial Army personnel (except JCOs) on embodiment for military service will be changed over from free replacement system to clothing allowance system as for the regular Army (except when their units are intended to be sent immediately or within the next three months from the date of embodiment to a theatre of operations where this system does not operate). A board of survey will be held at the time of embodiment and the following action taken:-
(i) Articles authorised to the individuals under these Regulations which they are required to retain on embodiment for service and which in the opinion of the Boardhave less than three months life under active service conditions will be replaced free. Any articles found deficient/unserviceable due to reasons other than fair, wear and tear will, however, be replaced on payment at payment issue rates.
(ii) Additional items of clothing not authorised in these regulations but required to complete to scales as for regular army personnel will be issued free.
(b) Likewise Board of Survey will also be held at the time of disembodiment of Territorial Army units and the following action taken:-
(i) Articles of personal clothing and necessaries falling within the scale of disembodied TA personnel which have less than three months life under active service conditions will be replaced at individuals’ expense at the special recovery rates.
(ii) Items of clothing held surplus to the scales of disembodied Territorial Army personnel will be withdrawn and returned to the appropriate Ordinance Depots. Cost at special rates will be recovered from the individuals in respect of such surplus items which have less than three months life under active service conditions.
(iii) Articles found deficient having been lost stolen or rendered unserviceable through neglect will be made good at the individuals expense at special recovery rates plus 5 per cent or the payment issue rates whichever are higher. No recovery will be effected in case it is proved to the satisfaction of the unit Commander that the deficiency was caused by the circumstances beyond the individual’s control.
(c) Clothing allowance to Territorial Army personnel on embodiment, will be admissible from the first of the month in which the Board of Survey is held.
Similarly on disembodiment the clothing allowance will be stopped from the first of the month in which the Board of Survey is held. Territorial Army units which are intended to be sent immediately or within the next three months from the date of embodiment to a theatre of operations where clothing allowance system does not operate, will continue to remain on free replacement system for the period to be spent in peace area. Similarly TA units which are to be disembodied immediately or within 3 months of their return from theatre of operations will continue to remain on free replacement system.
135. Additional Items of Clothing - In addition to the ordinary scale, units will hold on charge additional clothing as laid down in Appendix XXI. This clothing will be issued subject to the conditions laid down in the above Appendix.
136. Application of Clothing Regulation - The general rules in respect of clothing are laid down in Clothing Regulations, and except when at variance with paragraphs of the chapter, will also be applicable to the Territorial Army.
137. General Orders regarding Indenting, Size, Scale, Replacement and Stocking of Clothing.
(a) Clothing and necessaries for warrant officers and other ranks will be supplied free on indent from the Army Ordnance Corps supplying establishments. Ordinarily readymade garment will be issued and the fitting rates of articles of clothing will be admissible in cases where fitting is required.
(b) In order to provide for men whom readymade garments will not fit, 10 per cent of the authorised cloth material in any one indent may, if desired, be drawn and made up regimentally. In such cases the authorised making rate only will be admissible.
(c) Claims preferred on account of making and fitting will be admitted at rates prescribed in para 218 of these regulations.
(d) In order to ascertain the correct sizes suitable for each man, specifications (Size scales) for each garment will be obtained from the Ordnance Depot on which dependent. Full instructions as to the method of measuring will be found in I.A.F.O. 1446.
(e) In order to assist them in fitting out personnel and to effect replacements as and when they become necessary, units will maintain in addition to their authorised scale, calculated on their actual strength on the 1st of April each year, permanent stocks of clothing and necessaries up to 5 per cent of the number of each article authorised.
(f) All clothing and necessaries which are condemned of are not considered suitable for re-issue will be returned to Ordnance.
(g) All articles of clothing and necessaries, including foot wear, issued to the Territorial Army are Government property.
(h) In the case of Provincial units personnel clothing and equipment for other ranks will be stored with the unit and issued when required for training.
Other ranks of Urban units doing training on the drill system will be permitted to keep the appropriate clothing and equipment in their personnel possession but will only wear it on occasions laid down in para 132.
138. Making and Fitting Charges - Claims on account of making and fitting will be preferred of I.A.F.A. 115, which will be submitted for pre-audit. The rates claimed will not exceed those prescribed in para 218 of these regulations, and the Indian Army Form will bear a certificate that the work was essential and that the rates quoted were the lowest obtainable.
139. Maintenance of Clothing Ledgers - Units will maintain clothing ledgers on IAFZ-2286A for articles of clothing and necessaries issued free. These ledgers will be subject to local audit under the orders of the Controller of Defence Accounts concerned.
140. Free Replacements of Clothing - Free replacement will be made only on condemnation of any article of clothing or ordnance equipment by the commanding officer. Indents for initial issues or replacements will be submitted quarterly but emergency indents may be submitted at any time for special reasons, which will be stated in writing. Every condemned article will be handed in. All repairable and unserviceable clothing in this category will be reported in the Memo form to the CAOC/ADOS/DADOS/SC(O) who will arrange for the clothing to be conditioned by ordnance personnel at the unit and disposed of as follows:-
(a) Repairable clothing to the appropriate ordnance depot except as conditioned in (b) below;
(b) Clothing beyond economic repair and all unserviceable items to salvage.
141. Replacement of Outgrown Garments - When garments are outgrown by the wearer and the commanding officer is satisfied that a new issue has become necessary from this cause and that due attention was paid to the instructions laid down for fitting, the outgrown clothing will be withdrawn and taken on unit charge for re-issue and new articles required, issued free, in replacement. The life of the withdrawn articles will be determined by a board and noted when re-issuing.
142. Payment Issues - When warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and other ranks of the Territorial Army are issued on payment clothing stores which form part of their authorized uniform, the charges for the payment issue will be the same as for the regular army personnel as per Catalogue of Clothing. The commanding officer of the unit will certify on the indent that the articles indented for are required for the individual’s uniform.
143. Submission of Indents for Clothing and Necessaries - Quarterly indents for clothing, necessaries and boots will be submitted by the Territorial Army units on 1st of March, June, September and December. Territorial Army units will demand clothing from Army Ordnance Corps supplying establishments in their own area of supply. All indents for ordnance stores and clothing will be prepared in accordance with the orders laid down in Regulations for the Equipment of the Army, Part I.
144. Stock of Boots to be Maintained - 20 per cent of requirements of boots over and above the authorised proportion may be maintained. To arrive at correct figures commanding officer will work out the estimates on the strength of their units as on 1st April each year.
145. Responsibility for Safe Custody of Clothing etc - The soldier is responsible for the safe custody of all articles of clothing and necessaries in his charge. At the end of Recruit and Annual Training in the case of Provincial Units, when disembodied and on discharge, a soldier will hand in clothing and necessaries in his possession, and will be required to pay for any deficiencies and for wilful damage to any article of clothing and necessaries.
146. Wearing of Badges and Shoulder Title - Territorial Army units will wear the badges and shoulder titles as are authorised.