25. If any person recommended for an appointment as an Officer holds a commission in the Royal Navy or other Force, the nature of such commission should be stated in the letter of recommendation. [Sidenote: Eligibility of Full Pay Officers.] 26. Officers on full pay in the Navy or Army are not eligible for other than honorary commissions. [Sidenote: Honorary Commander.] 27. The appointment of an Honorary Commander to a Brigade is allowed, and such Honorary Lieutenants and Honorary Sub-Lieutenants as the Admiralty may think fit to sanction. [Sidenote: Honorary Chaplain and Surgeon.] 28. The appointments of an Honorary Chaplain and Staff-Surgeon to a Brigade are allowed at the discretion of the Admiralty. [Sidenote: Honorary appointments when to cease.] 29. The appointments of all Honorary Officers will cease whenever the Force is called out for actual service, unless the Admiralty shall see fit to accept the services of any such Officers who may volunteer for active service. [Sidenote: Precedence of Honorary Officers.] 30. No Officer holding an honorary commission can, in virtue of it, take precedence of any Officer holding a substantive commission of the same rank. [Sidenote: Officers to possess a knowledge of duties, &c.] 31. Every Officer is required to possess a competent knowledge of his duties, and to give a proper attendance at the drills of his Corps. Any Officer who does not attend the number of drills prescribed for the enrolled Volunteers of his Corps, to qualify them for certificates of efficiency, will not be allowed to retain his commission unless the Admiralty may see special reasons for a relaxation of this Regulation. PETTY OFFICERS. [Sidenote: Appointment.] 32. The Petty Officers of a Battery are appointed by the Commanding Officer of the Battery, from among the enrolled members of the Battery. [Sidenote: Leading Gunners.] 33. Leading Gunners may be appointed by the Commanding Officer of a Battery, in the proportion of one to every twenty of Enrolled Gunners. [Sidenote: Reduction.] 34. A Petty Officer or Leading Gunner may be reduced by the Commanding Officer of a Brigade, for any sufficient cause; such cause to be judged by the officers of the Brigade sitting as a Court of Inquiry. ENROLLED MEMBERS. [Sidenote: Qualification.] 35. Candidates for enrollment as Members of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers must be of good character and physically fit for the Service; their eligibility will be judged by the Commanding Officer of the Corps, assisted by such others of the Corps as he may think fit to appoint for that purpose. [Sidenote: Age.] 36. No person below the age of 17 is to be enrolled in the Corps without the special authority of the Admiralty. Boys of 14 years of age and upwards may be enrolled for the purpose of being trained as Buglers. [Sidenote: Disqualification.]