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(2.) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council at any time to suspend the operation of any regulations so made under this Ordinance and thereupon until the Governor in Council shall revoke the said order of suspension the provisions of the Army Act shall apply to all the members of the Hongkong Defence Corps without the modifications formerly effected by the regulations so suspended.
7.--(1.) Every person who becomes a member of the Duration of Hongkong Defence Corps, whether by service upon him service. of an order calling him up for military service or by voluntary enlistment, shall continue to be a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps until he is discharged or dismissed or exempted.
(2.) Every member of the Hongkong Defence Corps who attains the age of fifty-five years while being a member of the said Corps shall upon attaining that age be discharged unless be elects to continue to be sub- ject to military service.
(3.) If any such member so elects he shall take the oath or declaration of allegiance and sign the enrolment form as provided by this Ordinance and upon his taking the said oath or declaration and signing the said form he shall be deemed to have been a member of the Hong- kong Defence Corps as from the expiration of his liability to military service under the provisions of section 2 of this Ordinance and shall continue to be a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps antil he is discharged or dis- missed or exempted.
8. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the constitution, management, training, service, and discipline of the Hongkong Defence Corps, and any other regulations whatsoever which may be desirable in connection therewith.
9. The Volunteer Ordinance, 1893, and the Volunteer Reserve Ordinance, 1910, shall be repealed as from the first day of January, 1918.
Power to make regula- tions.
Repeal of
Ordinances Nos. 4 of 1893 and 25 of 1910.
SCHEDULE.
To...
FORM NO. 1.
ORDER CALLING UP.
Military Service Ordinance, 1917.
Take notice that His Excellency the Governor in Council has ordered that you be called up for military service under the Military Service Ordinance, 1917, and you are hereby so called up accordingly.
Dated the..
..day of...
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Clerk of Couneits,
FORM NO. 2.
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
I, A.B.. do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George the Fifth, His Heirs and Successors according to law, and that I will faithfully serve in the Hongkong Defence Corps according to the conditions of my ser- vice.
So help me God.
(Signature))