Cap. 220 Art. 26Embodiment.

(1) If it appears to the President of Malta that national danger is imminent or that a great emergency has arisen or that an invasion or attack is apprehended, he may, by order signified under the hand of the Minister, order that the territorial force be called out on permanent service, and immediately upon and by virtue of the issue of such order the Commander shall give, and when given revoke or vary, such directions as he may deem necessary or proper for embodying the territorial force or any part thereof.

(2) Where directions under this article for the time being direct the embodiment of any part of the territorial force, every officer and man belonging to that part shall attend at the time and place fixed by those directions and after that time they shall be deemed to be embodied; and such officers and men are in this Act referred to as embodied or as the embodied part or parts of the territorial force.

(3) On embodiment, the territorial force or the embodied part or parts thereof shall, until disembodiment, be governed by the provisions of this Act and of any regulation or order made thereunder governing the regular force insofar as they may be applicable thereto.

(4) Where an order has been made under sub-article (1), the occasion thereof shall forthwith be communicated to the House.