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29. The Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, the Volunteer Repeal of Amendment Ordinance, 1926, and the Volunteer Amendment Ordinances Ordinance, 1927, are repealed.
No. 2 of 1920, No. 15 of 1926, and No. 27 of 1927.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
[s. 10 (2).]
1. These regulations may be cited as the Hong Kong Volunteer Short title. Regulations.
2. In these regulations "the corps" means the Hong Kong Interpreta- Volunteer Defence Corps.
tion.
Constitution of the corps.
3.—(1) The corps shall consist of the following units and auxiliary Composition
units:-
and com- mand.
Corps units.
(a) Corps Headquarters.
(b) The Corps Band.
(c) The Battery.
(d) Engineer Company.
(e) Corps Signals.
(f) Machine Gun Troop.
(g) Armoured Car Section.
(h) Motor Machine Gun Section.
(i) Machine Gun Company.
(j) Scottish Company.
(k) Portuguese Company.
(1) Anzac Company.
(m) Flying Section.
(n) Medical Section.
(0) Reserve Company.
(p) Reserve of Officers.
Auxiliary units.
(q) Army Service Corps Cadre.
(r) Anti-aircraft Light Automatic Company.
(s) Lights Section Cadre.
(2) Subject to the provisions of the Army Act and of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1933, and of these regulations the corps shall be under the orders of the General Officer Commanding the Troops, subject to the general control of the Governor.
(3) The corps shall be under the executive command of an officer who may be either a volunteer officer or an officer of His Majesty's regular forces. If this officer is a volunteer officer, the adjutant of the corps shall be an officer of His Majesty's regular forces, appointed by the Army Council, unless no regular officer is available. Appoint- ment as Commandant will be made for a period of four years. The Governor, upon the recommendation of the General Officer Command- ing the Troops, may extend such period for terms not exceeding two years, but no Commandant will be permitted to retain his command beyond eight years in all, or beyond the age laid down in regulation 6 of these regulations, whichever may first happen.