1490
Appoint- ment of officers, etc.
Corps to be supplied with
equipment.
Corps equipment to remain the property
of the Government.
Corps
equipment not to be
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 9, 1941.
"I have read or had explained to me the Hong Kong Auxiliary Ordnance Corps Instructions, 1941, and I agree to carry out such duties, general or particular, as may be allotted to me by duly authorized officers of the Corps and to abide by the said Instructions.**
6. (a) The officers other than the Controller and the Deputy Controller shall be appointed by the Controller and may be dismissed only by the Controller.
(b) Other members may be appointed, promoted, reduced or dismissed by the Controller.
(e) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (a) any of the powers conferred on the Controller by these Instructions may be exercised by any officer deputed by the Controller.
7. Every member of the Corps shall be supplied with such uniform and equipment, if any, as may, with the consent of the Governor, he prescribed by the Controller.
8.-(a) All Corps equipment shall be and remain the property of the Government.
(b) All Corps equipment shall, when required by the Controller, be produced or delivered up as directed by him.
(c) On the death, resignation or discharge of any member of the Corps the person or persons in whose hands the Corps equipment may be or into whose hands the same may come shall forthwith return the same to the Controller.
9. If any member of the Corps wilfully makes away with, pawns, or wilfully damages, destroys or negligently loses or wrongfully unlawfully refuses or neglects to produce or deliver up, any Corps equipment issued to him, the value thereof shall be recoverable from him summarily before a magistrate by the Controller or his representative.
disposed of.
Calling out for actual service.
Pay when called out.
Powers of Controller.
10.--(a) In case of apprehended or actual tumult or riot or attack on the Colony, the Governor, by order, may call out for actual service all or any members of the Corps.
(b) Every member so called out shall attend such places and perform such duties as the Controller or his officers may direct.
(c) The period of such actual service shall end only by order of the Governor.
11. Every member of the Corps, when called out on service shall be entitled to such pay and allowances as may from time to time be prescribed.
12. It shall be lawful for the Controller-
(a) to make departmental orders as he may think fit for the carrying out of the routine of the Corps, and for regulating the internal control thereof;
(b) to make such orders as he may deem necessary to make the Corps efficient and so to maintain it and to see that such orders are duly obeyed;