(1) Any citizen of the Dominion of India or any subject of an Acceding State or any person having a permanent domicile in West Bengal who may offer himself for enrolment in the Force and who satisfies the prescribed conditions may be eligible for enrolment therein by such authority, in such manner and for such period not exceeding five years as may be prescribed.
(2) Every volunteer shall receive a certificate of appointment in the prescribed form and such certificate shall be issued by such authority as may be prescribed and thereupon he shall have the powers, privileges and protection conferred, and shall discharge the duties imposed, on a volunteer by or under this Act.
(3) Every volunteer enrolled under this Act shall undergo such preliminary and periodical training as may be prescribed.
Constitution of any separate unit of the Force.
Enrolment and removal of a member of the Force.
The West Bengal National Volunteer Force Act, 1949. 3 1 of 1949j (Sections 9-13.)
(4) Every person enrolled as a volunteer under this Act shall be entitled to receive a certificate of discharge in the prescribed form on the expiration of the period for which he was enrolled and any such person may, prior to the expiration of that period, be discharged by such authority subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, and shall be so discharged on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee in this behalf.
(6) The prescribed authority may, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed,— •
(a) suspend, discharge, dismiss or remove any volunteer from his office and thereupon the certificate referred to in sub-section (2) shall cease to have effect, or
(b) disband any unit constituted under this Act and thereupon every volunteer of such unit shall vacate office.
9. Every person enrolled as a volunteer under this Act may be posted for any period to any unit of the Force and thereupon he shall be bound to serve in the said unit for that period.