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4. Section 12 of the principal Ordinance, at it stands at present, leaves open to question the legality of any given proclamation under it, and the occurrence of the facts which are a condition precedent to any proclama- tion. Such uncertainty might be very disturbing and very embarrassing. Accordingly clause 3 of the bill proposes to add to section 12 a sub-section which makes the gazette containing the proclamation conclusive. evidence that the proclamation was lawfully issued.
5. Section 13 of the principal Ordinance provides that when the volunteers are on actual military service they are entitled to pay and allowances and billeting in the same way as Ilis Majesty's regular forces, so far as the regulations relating to the regular forces are by the Governor in Council deemed applicable to the volunteers, Nothing is said about camp, and it is obvious that the circumstances of the volunteers and of the regular forces might often be very different. Clause 4 of the bill, therefore, proposes to substitute a section providing that the volunteers, when called out on actual military service, and when in camp, shall be entitled to such pay and allowances as may be prescribed by the Governor in Council. A proviso is added that no volunteer is to be entitled to any pay or allowance for more than 7 days in any one year in respect of camp.
6. Clause 5 of the bill provides that volunteers, while in a volunteer camp, are to be subject to the same control, discipline and punishments as are provided in the Army Act in the case of members of His Majesty's regular forces, with the proviso that no volunteer shall be subject to a penalty of death except for murder, and that no sentence of a court martial on a volunteer shall be carried into execution unless confirmed by the Governor. This amendment merely extends to the case of volunteer camps the provision which already apply to the case of volunteers who are on actual military service or who are undergoing training or doing duty with the regular forces.
C
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
9th August, 1926.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 259. -Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hong Kong.
Disease.
Port or Place.
Restrictions in Force.
Authority.
Cholera.
Bangkok.
Medical examination; quarantine at the discre-
tion of the Health Officer.
Cholera.
Hoihow.
Do.
Cholera.
Shanghai.
Do.
Cholera.
Tsingtao.
Do.
Cholera.
Amoy.
Do.
Notification No. 655 of 20th November, 1925.
Notification No. 274 of
20th May, 1926.
Notification No. 391 of 26th July, 1926.
Notification No. 471 of 2nd September, 19:6
Notification No. 505 of
16th September, 1926.