(a) Category I – Duty Engagements. The provision of Music for: -
(i) Ceremonial and training purposes in IN Ship’s and Establishments.
(ii) Showing the flag in connection with parades and displays.
(iiii) Maintaining morale. This includes playing in officer’s messes and ships company concerts.
(iv) Official ceremonies and entertainments which form part of public entertainments offered in the interests of the service4 and showing the flag.
(v) Army, Airforce or general official functions where no profit is made by any person out of the Band’s performance.
(b) Category II – Public Engagements. A public engagement is one when the band by order of the appropriate Naval authority, attends a function, which though organized by a non-service organization, is either in the interests of the service or entirely in aid of officially sponsored Naval, Army or Airforce charities or organizations.
(c) Category III – Service Engagements. Functions organized solely for the entertainment of officers or any part of ship’s company, including periodical dances and entertainments given by a band outside their own ship’s or establishments except the annual or bi-annual dances for officers or ship’s companies ashore in their home port or fleet base and dances organized to celebrate national days, will be regarded as duty engagements under category I (iv) above.
(d) Category IV – Private Engagements. Engagements which bands may be permitted to undertake at the request of the civilian organizations or individuals, subject to the exigencies of the service.
(e) Category V - Such other engagements as may be authorized by the Chief of the Naval Staff from time to time.
(2) Conditions under which Band Engagements may be Undertaken. The conditions governing engagements in the above categories will be as follows:
(a) Category I Duty Engagements.
(i) No fees shall accepted.
(ii) All expenses are borne by public funds.
(iii)Personnel are on duty.
(b) Category II – Public Engagements.
(i) No fees shall be accepted.
(ii) All expenses will be charged to the organizers by the authority on whose instructions the engagement is undertaken.
(iii)Personnel are on duty.
(iv) The responsible Naval authority will make arrangements as in sub regulations (3).
(c) Category III – Service Engagements.
(i) The mess receiving the services of the band may be required to make a contribution to the band fund in accordance with rules made by the Chief of the Naval Staff. The rules may provide for distribution of the whole of the contribution, or any part of it to members of the band. When a performance is solely for sailors no charge should be made.
(ii) Expenses are borne by public funds.
(iii) Personnel are bon duty.
(d) Category IV – Private Engagements.
(i) Fees (as promulgated by the Naval Headquarters from time to time) will be charged to the organization, or person requesting the band’s services.
(ii) Personnel are on duty.
(iii)Transport will be provided by the party booking the band.
(iv) Should a band be required to leave station, all costs arising out of traveling, meals accommodation and other incidental expenses shall be borne by organization or person requesting trhe band services.
(e) Category V – As laid down by the Chief of the Naval Staff from time to time
(3) Liabilities of organization or persons accepting the loan of bands.
(a) Public Engagements. As officers and sailors are on duty, they will be subject to the normal regulations for the grant of disability pension and family pension/gratuity and allowances. Before detailing a band to undertake public engagements, the appropriate Naval authority shall require the organisers to enter into an undertaking in writing to defray all expenses incidental to the engagement, including the traveling and subsistence expenses of the band.
(b) Private Engagements.
(i) Fees will not be lower than those which would, in similar circumstances, be accepted by a comparable civilian band in the locality and unless the local civil rate is know, the authority engaging the band will be required to certify before the contract is completed that the fees satisfy this condition.
(ii) All expenses will be defrayed as the first charge against the payment received from the organisers.
(iii)After all expenses have been met, the net proceeds shall be apportioned as directed by the Chief of the Naval Staff.
(4) Acceptance of Private Engagements. Band sailors and other of the ship’s company may at the discretion of the Chief of the Naval Staff or other Senior Officer present, be permitted to accept private engagements provided that undue interference with civilian bands or musicians, is avoided. Bands will, whoever, be available at all times for duty.
(5) Requests for bands to perform should be addressed to the Captain of the ship/establishments where the band is borne and to the Administrative Authority concerned in the case of the central band.
(6) Engagements shall not be sought through the public press or initiated through the medium of musical or other agents. Approved engagements may however be accepted through agents acting directly on behalf of the party desirous of engaging the band provided that no commission is deducted from the Band’s recognized fee.
(7) The share of the engagements fees will not be allotted to any member of the Band unless he is present and takes an active part in the performance, to which the fee relates.
(8) Acceptance of Private Engagements whilst Bands are on Another Engagement: -
(a) Private engagements may be accepted additionally whilst a band is engaged on a duty, public or service engagement at the discretion of the Officer-in-Charge of the band, provided they do not interfere with the programme arranged for the other function.
(b) Fees received from private engagements accepted under this subregulation will, after any expenses have been defrayed, be apportioned to the Band fund and the performers as directed by the Chief of the Naval Staff from time to time.
Amendments made to the original programme which do not involve acceptance of a private engagement will be classified under Category I, II or III by the authority, or his representative on the spot, responsible for the arrangements of the visit and he will make any further arrangements, which the amendments may entail in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.
(9) Acceptance of Private Engagements by Individual Members of a Band or Ship’s Company. Members of a band or ship’s company who are permitted to accept a private engagement when not required for duty, either as individuals or as a group, will not allow themselves to be publicly described as belonging to a band of their services, ship or establishment and will not wear uniform during the performances. The fee to be charged will not be lower than that which would be charged in similar circumstances by a comparable instrumentalist or group in the locality. They will make good at their own expense, any loss of or damage to instruments or other articles which are the property of the band.
(10) Political Functions. No engagement will be accepted for Bands to play at political meetings, demonstrations or entertainments organised by political parties.
Also see regulation 0110.
(11) Engagements while Civil Musicians are on Strike. Engagements which involve the replacement of civilian bands/ music organizations which are on strike, are not permitted.