【正文】 t be affected. Reserve officers other than those referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be given subsidies for their loss of working time during the period when they are participating in military training or carrying out military duties. Specific measures and standards therefor shall be stipulated by the people39。 50 for reserve officers at the battalion level。 and 50 for specialized technical reserve officers at the junior level. Article 50 Reserve officers who have not reached the maximum age for reserve service in peacetime shall be retired from reserve service when they are unable to continue to perform reserve service due to their injuries, sickness, disability or other reasons. Article 51 The limits of authority for approving the retirement of reserve officers from reserve service shall be the same as those prescribed in paragraph 3 of Article 15 of the present Law. Chapter IX Legal LiabilityArticle 52 Any reserve officer who has violated discipline during the period when he is participating in military training or carrying out military duties shall be given administrative sanctions in accordance with the relevant regulations of the Central Military Commission。s Armed Police Force and assigned to reserve service as reserve officers of the People39。s government. In wartime, any reserve officer who has refused or evaded the callup or military training shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law if the circumstances are serious. Article 54 Whoever, in his work of the administration of reserve officers, takes bribes, engages in malpractices for selfish ends or causes serious losses to work of reserve service because of his dereliction of duty shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law if the case constitutes a crime, or shall be given administrative sanctions if the case does not constitute a crime. Whoever obstructs reserve officers from participating in military training, carrying out military duties or performing other obligations of military service shall be ordered by the local people39。 and 40 for reserve officers at the platoon level. The maximum age for reserve service in peacetime may be appropriately extended for a small number of reserve officers, provided this is necessitated by work and duly approved, however, the maximum age shall not be extended for more than 5 years. Article 49 The maximum age for reserve service of specialized technical officers in peacetime shall be: 60 for specialized technical reserve officers at the senior level。s Liberation Army, and the funds thus needed shall be guaranteed by the Central Government. Article 46 Where reserve officers have died or bee disabled in the course of their performance of military activities such as military training and military duties, the relevant affairs shall be handled with reference to the regulations of the State in respect of pensions and preferential treatment granted to the families of the deceased servicemen or to the disabled servicemen. Chapter VIII Retirement of Reserve OfficersArticle 47 Reserve officers shall be retired from reserve service when they have attained the maximum age for reserve service in peacetime. Article 48 The maximum age for reserve service of operational, political and logistics reserve officers in peacetime shall be: 55 for reserve officers at the divisional level。s Liberation Army. Article 41 The training of reserve officers who hold posts in reserve ponents or are prelisted as officers for active ponents shall be organized and conducted by the units in which they serve。 or (4) having been deprived of the status as a reserve officer. Article 35 The people39。s armed forces departments at the county level in the regions where they work or reside. Article 34 Where reserve officers fall into one of the following circumstances, their registration as reserve officers shall be cancelled by the people39。 other persons shall be registered as reserve officers at the same time when they have been assigned to serve in the reserve of officers. Persons who work in State organs, public organizations, enterprises or institutions and have been assigned to serve in the reserve of officers shall register as reserve officers with the people39。 (3) Where reserve officers from reserve Second Lieutenant to reserve Colonel meet the specified requirements and the prescribed intervals for rank promotion, their reserve ranks may be promoted grade by grade by virtue of their post grades. (4) Where reserve Senior Colonels are promoted to reserve Major Generals, selective promotion shall be practised. (5) Where reserve officers have made outstanding contributions during their performance of military service, their reserve ranks may be promoted ahead of schedule. The requirements, intervals and procedures for promotion of reserve ranks shall be prescribed by the Central Military Commission. Article 26 The rank promotion of reserve officers shall be approved in accordance with the limits of authority prescribed below: (1) The promotion from reserve Senior Colonel to reserve Major General or from reserve Colonel to reserve Senior Colonel shall be approved by the Chairman of the Central Military Commission。 (2) The rank of reserve Colonel shall be conferred with the approval of the heads of units at the level of major military mand。 Officers at the level of deputy pany mander: reserve Lieutenant or Captain。 Officers the level of deputy regiment mander: reserve Lieutenant Colonel or Major。 and (3) Reserve junior officers: reserve Captain, Li