Application
3.—(1)  This Act shall apply to any member of a local force who is called out for actual service, active service or full-time service under the provisions of any written law relating to that force, but only from such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.
(2)  The Minister may appoint different dates in respect of different local forces under subsection (1).
(3)  The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare that this Act shall cease to apply to members of any local force specified in the declaration from and after such date as may be appointed therein, but the declaration shall be without prejudice to any right of relief arising out of the service of those members before that date.