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19. Notices required in pursuance of this
Ordinance or of the egulations to be given to
Officers or Other ranks of the Force shall be
served or published in such manner as may be
prescribed, and, if so served or published, shall
be deemed to be sufficient notice.

20. (1) Any Officer, non-commissioned
officer or volunteer of the Force who without
leave lawfully granted or such sickness or other
reasonable excuse as may he allowed in the
_ prescribed manner, fails to appear at the time
and place appointed for assembling on embodi-
ment, shall be guilty, according to the circum-
stances, of deserting within the meaning of
section 12, or of absenting himself without leave

within the meaning of section 15, of the Army

Act, and shall whether otherwise subject to
military law or not, liable to be tried by court-
martial, and convicted and punished accordingly,
and may be taken into military custody.

(2) Sections 153 and 154 of the Army Act
shall apply with respect to deserters and desertion
and with respect to absentees without leave and
absence without leave within the meaning of this
section in like manner as they apply with respect
to deserters or absentees without leave and
desertion within the meaning of those sections
and any person who, knowing any Officer, non-

-commissioned officer or volunteer of the Force to
be a deserter or absentee without leave within
the meaning of this section or of the Army Act,
employs or continues to employ him, shall be
deemed to aid him in concealing himself within
the meaning of the first mentioned section.

(3) Any person who knowing any Officer,
non-commissioned officer or volunteer of the
Force to be a deserter or absentee without leave,
by any means whatsoever, conceals such Officer,
non-commissioned officer or volunteer of the
Force, or aids or assists him in concealing him-
self shall be liable, on summary conviction, to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding six
months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred
and twenty dollars.

ANTIGUA.

Service and
publication
of notices.

Failure to
attend ombod-
iment.