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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 26, 1933.
Annual inspection.
Disbanding of corps.
Courts of inquiry.
Regulations.
First Schedule.
Calling out for actual military
service in case of
under the command of the officers of His Majesty's regular forces, so, nevertheless, that the volunteers shall, when the circumstances of the service admit; be led by their own officers under such command.
7. An annual inspection of the corps shall be held by a general or field officer of His Majesty's army.
8. The Governor may disband or discontinue the services of the corps or any part thereof whenever it may seem to him expedient to do so.
9. The General Officer Commanding the Troops with the approval of the Governor, may at any time assemble a court of inquiry comprised of officers of the corps to inquire into any matter relative to the corps or to any officer of the corps or volunteer, and to record the facts and circumstances as- certained on such inquiry, and, if so required, to report on the same for the information of the General Officer Command- ing the Troops.
10.--(1) The General Officer Commanding the Troops may, with the approval of the Governor after consultation with the Commandant, make regulations respecting the con- stitution, general government, discipline and training of the corps, and in particular respecting-
(a) conditions of efficiency:
(b) appointment, promotion and rank of officers; and (c) assembling and proceedings of courts of inquiry.
(2) The regulations contained in the First Schedule shall be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance and shall continue in force except in so far as they may be rescinded or amended or added to by regulations made under this Ordi- nance, or by any other Ordinance.
PART II.
ACTUAL MILITARY SERVICE.
11.-(1) In case of great national or local emergency, or in case of actual or apprehended invasion of or attack on the Colony, or in case of serious local disturbance, or in case it may be desirable to take precautions against the possibility of serious local disturbance, the Governor may, by proclama- tion, call out the corps or any portion thereof for actual disturbance. military service.
national
emergency, invasion, or serious local
(2) Every officer of the corps and volunteer so called out shall be bound to assemble at such place as may be directed by the Governor, and to perform such service as may be required under the orders of the General Officer Commanding the Troops.
(3) Every such officer and volunteer so called out shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be on actual military service. If any such officer or volunteer, not being incapacitated by infirmity for service, refuses or neglects so to assemble, he shall be deemed a deserter.
(4) The period of such service shall continue so long as the Governor may consider necessary, and shall end only by order of the Governor.
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