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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 2, 1935.
(iii) in other Authorized Auxiliary Forces of the Empire including their Reserves and associated Cadet or Officers' Training Corps, such service in every case having been. qualifying service in accordance with the regulations under the Royal Warrant of 23rd September, 1930, and applicable to the Force in which or with whose Reserves or associated Cadet or Officers' Training Corps the service was rendered.
(iv) other than that covered by sub-paragraphs (ii) and (iii), in any Reserve Forces mentioned in those sub-paragraphs during their embodiment, the exact period only of the embodied service rendered being reckoned as single qualifying service.
B. Commissioned service in West Africa (except that per- formed by natives of West Africa) will reckon two-fold as qualify- ing service but any period spent on leave therefrom will reckon only as single qualifying service.
C. Half of any time during which an officer may have served on the active list after attaining the age of 17 years——
(i) in the ranks of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, such service having been efficient in accordance with the Regulations;
(ii) in the ranks of any other Authorized Auxiliary Forces of the Empire (including their Reserves), such service to be qualifying service in accordance with the Efficiency Decoration regulations of those Forces;
(iii) in the ranks of or as a cadet in any Cadet Corps or Officers' Training Corps in the Empire in accordance with the Efficiency Decoration regulations applicable to the Force or Forces with which such Corps is associated,
shall reckon as qualifying service.
D. War Service-
(i) An officer of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps who was serving in the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps establish- ed under the Volunteer Ordinance, 1893, (Hong Kong)-since repealed-or in the Reserve established under the Volunteer Reserve Ordinance, 1910, (Hong Kong)-since repealed-or in any other Authorized Auxiliary Force of the Empire on 4th August, 1914, and who, before 11th November, 1918, served or accepted an obligation to serve on military service beyond the borders of the territory of the Force of which he was a member, will reckon two-fold as qualifying service all embodied service as an officer on the active list given between the dates of embodiment and of disembodiment of the Force in which he was serving, and will reckon all such embodied service in the ranks on the active list as full single qualifying service towards the 20 years required, whether such service was in the Royal Navy, Regular Army, Royal Air Force, Special Reserve, Territorial Force, or Dominion or Colonial Forces.