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PART VI

OFFICERS – DUTIES, POWERS AND PROMOTIONS

25. Duties.-(1) Officers of the Senior and Junior Division will be
responsible for the training and discipline of the cadets placed under their
command.

(2) They shall attend all training parades as specified in Part VIII of
these rules and shall attend the annual camp.

26. Powers.-(1) Officers of the Senior and Junior Division shall
exercise powers of command over all cadets in their unit.

(2) Officers of the Senior Division shall exercise such powers over
Junior Commissioned Officers, Warrant Officers, and Non-Commissioned
Officers of the Army, Chief Petty Officers, Petty Officers and Men of Indian
Navy, Warrant Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers of the Indian
Air Force, as the case may be posted or attached to their units as may be
specified by the Government of India in the Ministry of Defence.

(3) Officers of the Senior Division shall be junior to all officers of the
Armed Forces and territorial Army and whole-time National Cadet Corps
commissioned officers of similar rank and among themselves shall take
seniority according to the date of heir commission in the Corps:

Provided that period of service rendered by an officer of the Senior
Division as a Commissioned Officer in the Armed Forces, Territorial Army
and Jammu and Kashmir Cadet Corps or National Cadet Corps (Senior
Division) shall count towards his seniority and promotion.

(4) Officers of the Junior Division shall be junior to all Armed Forces
Territorial Army and Senior Division Officers and between themselves shall
take seniority according to the date of their commission in the corps:

Provided that period of service rendered by an officer of the Junior
Division as an officer not below the rank of a Junior Commissioned Officer or
a Viceroy’s Commissioned Officer in the Army or a Chief Petty Officer in the
Navy or a Warrant Officer in the Air Force or a Commissioned Officer in the
National Cadet Corps shall count towards his seniority and promotion:

Provided further that the powers of command specified in sub-rules (1)
to (4) shall be exercised by the Officers of the Corps when in uniform and
when attending an authorized parade or when in annual camp.