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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bill.
No. S. 48.-The following Bill is published for general information:-
A BILL
[No. 2-7.1.41.-1.]
INTITULED
Short title.
Substitution
for para-
An Ordinance to amend the Hong Kong Corps of Air Raid
Wardens Ordinance, 1940.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Corps of Air Raid Wardens Amendment Ordinance, 1941.
2. Paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of section 2 of the Hong Kong Corps of Air Raid Wardens Ordinance, 1940, are (d) and (e) repealed and the following paragraphs are substituted therefor of Ordinance respectively :
graphs (e),
No. 6 of 1940, s. 2.
Substitution
for sub-
section (1) of Ordinance No. 6 of 1940, s. 10.
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(c) officers means the Chief Air Raid Warden of Hong Kong and the Chief Air Raid Warden of Kowloon, New Kowloon, and the New Territories, the Deputy Chief Air Raid Wardens, the Head Wardens, the Divisional Wardens and the Deputy Divisional Wardens, the District Wardens and the Deputy District Wardens.
(d) subordinate officers" means all Group Wardens and Senior Wardens who are duly registered as such in the Corps Records.
(e) "members" includes officers, subordinate officers, Air Raid Wardens, Warden Telephonists, House Wardens, and Honorary Air Raid Wardens.
3. Sub-section (1) of section 10 of the Hong Kong Corps of Air Raid Wardens Ordinance, 1940, is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted therefor:
(1) If any member of the corps wilfully makes away with, sells, pawns, or wilfully damages, destroys or negligently loses or unlawfully refuses or neglects to produce or deliver up any Corps equipment issued to him, he shall pay to the Director of Air Raid Precautions on demand such sum in respect of the value thereof as may be demanded and failing such payment the value thereof shall be recoverable from him summarily before a Magistrate by the Director of Air Raid Precautions or his representative.
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