The Territorial Army Act, 1948

(1) This Act may be called the Territorial Army Act, 1948. (2) It extends to the whole of India 1* * * and applies to all classes of persons in the Territorial Army,wherever they may be.

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-- (a) "enrolled" means enrolled in the Territorial Army under the provisions of this Act; (b) "officer" means an officer of any of the two classes specified in section 5; (c) "non-commissioned officer" means a person holding a non-commissioned rank in theTerritorial Army, and includes an acting non-commissioned officer; (d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; 1[(dd) "public utility service" means any undertaking which supplies power, light, gas or water tothe public, or carries on a public transport, or maintains any system of public conservancy orsanitation and which is declared, by notification in the Official Gazette, by the Central Government tobe a public utility service to which this Act applies: Provided that no such modification shall be issued unless the Central Government is satisfiedthat, having regard to the needs of the Territorial Army, the persons employed in any such publicutility service should, in the public interest, be made compulsorily liable for service in that Armyunder this Act;] (e) the expression 2[Regular Army] means officers and other ranks who, by their commission,terms of enrolment or otherwise, are liable to render continuously for a term military service under3[the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950)]; and (f) all words and expressions used herein and defined in 3[the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950)], andnot hereinbefore defined, shall be deemed to have the meanings respectively attributed to them bythat Act.

(1) There shall be raised and maintained in the mannerhereinafter provided an army to be designated the Territorial Army. (2) The Central Government may constitute such number of units of the Territorial Army as it thinksfit and may disband or reconstitute any unit so constituted.

There shall be the following classes of persons in theTerritorial Army, namely,-- (a) officers; and (b) enrolled persons.

Officers in the Territorial Army shall be of the two following classes, namely,-- (a) officers holding commissions in the Territorial Army granted by the President withdesignations of rank corresponding to those of Indian commissioned officers 1[of the Regular Army];and (b) junior commissioned officers holding commissions in the Territorial Army granted by thePresident with designations of rank corresponding to those of 2[junior commissioned officers of theRegular Army.]