(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, any person possessing the prescribed qualifications and willing to serve may be appointed as a Home Guard by such authority and in such manner as may be prescribed.
(2) Every Home Guard shall receive a certificate of appointment which shall be in such form and shall be issued by such authority as may be prescribed and thereupon he shall have the powers, privileges and protection conferred, and discharge the duties imposed, on a Home Guard by or under this Act.
(3) The prescribed authority may, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, suspend, dismiss or remove any Home Guard from his office; and thereupon the certificate received by him shall cease to have effect.
5. A Home Guard shall be bound to serve the State Government for such period and in such areas as may be prescribed, but he may be discharged at any time by such Constitution of Home Guards and appointment of officers.
Appointment and removal of Home Guards.
Period of service and discharge.
[Act No.I of 1948] 3 authority and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
3[6. The Commissioner of Police in the Cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, and the District Superintendent of Police in the district concerned may, at any time, call out in such manner and through such officer as may be prescribed, any Home Guard for the cities aforesaid or district as the case may be, for training or for discharging any duties assigned to him by or under this Act.]