( 1) The Central Government may, by notification, direct that any person or class of persons subject to this Act under1[clause (i) of sub-section ( 1) of section 2] shall be so subject as officers, junior commissioned officers, warrant officers or non-commissioned officers and may authorise any officer to give a like direction and to cancel such direction.
( 2) All persons subject to this Act other than officers, junior commissioned officers, warrant officers and non-commissioned officers shall, if they are not persons in respect of whom a notification or direction under sub-section ( 1) is in force, be deemed to be of rank inferior to that of a non-commissioned officer.
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1. Substituted by Act 56 of 1974, sec. 3 and Sch. II, for "clause (i) of section 2".