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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 2, 1935.
Hong Kong.
The Efficiency Decoration.
1. The Efficiency Decoration, which has been instituted by His Majesty to replace the Volunteer Officers' Decoration, the Territorial Decoration, and the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decorationt, is a reward to an officer for long and meritorious service of proved capacity in the Authorized Auxiliary Forces of the Empire* (or their Reserves) and is governed by the Royal Warrant dated 23rd September, 1930.
2. Commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps who on or after 23rd September, 1930, have completed 20 years' qualifying service as hereinafter defined shall be eligible for the award of the Decoration.
3. The subsidiary title of the Decoration awarded to officers who complete the requisite period of qualifying service while serving in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps shall be "Hong Kong", and the word "Hong Kong" shall be inscribed on the bar brooch of the Decoration so awarded.
4. An officer on whom the Decoration is conferred is entitled to the addition after his name of the letters "E.D."
5. Qualifying service is defined and shall be reckoned as follows:
A. Commissioned service-
(i) on the active list of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, including any commissioned service in a duly recogniz- ed and constituted Officers' Training or Cadet Crops after attaining the age of 17 years, such service being reckoned in full if the service and corps are equivalent in status to those of the Officers' Training Corps (not Cadet Corps) in Great Britain, or as half qualifying service only if they are not of this status, but the corps is nevertheless a Cadet Corps giving rise to qualifying service under paragraph 5 C (iii) below.
(ii) in any Reserve or Auxiliary Unit of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, but only such commissioned service as may have been rendered while those Units performed annual training equivalent to that normally carried out by their parent forces, provided the officer concerned also performed such training.
The displaced Decorations can, however, still be granted in cases where the necessary qualifying service was completed before the 23rd of September, 1930.
*The term "Authorized Auxiliary Forces of the Empire" means for the purposes of the Efficiency Decoration the Territorial Army, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and the Auxiliary Air Force in Great Britain, and similar forces in the Dominions, Colonies, and territories under His Majesty's protection to which attach similar obligations for training in peace; it excludes the Army Reserve and such like forces.
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