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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 14, 1918.
Appeal to
in Council.
8. Within seven days after the communication in writing the Governor to any such British subject of the decision of the Tribunal, or within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor in Council, it shall be lawful for such British subject, or for his employer if any, or for the Proper Military Authority, to appeal to the Governor in Council against the decision of the Tribunal, and upon such appeal it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to confirm or vary or reverse the decision of the Tribunal.
Expiration of condi- tional or temporary exemption.
Enrolment Lists.
General Military Service Force.
Procedure.
9.-(1.) Upon the expiration of any conditional or tem- porary exemption the person to whom such exemption applies shall, unless he has obtained a further exemption from the Tribunal, forth with report himself at the office of the Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quarter Master General.
(2.) If any person unlawfully fails so to report himself he shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprison- ment for any period not exceeding six months.
10.-(1.) The Governor shall cause to be published in the Gazette Enrolment Lists containing the names of the following persons :—
(a) Every person in whose case the Tribunal has decided that such person should be enrolled, provided that no appeal against such decision has been prosecuted before the Governor in Council;
(b) Every person in whose case the Governor in Council on appeal has decided that such per- son should be enrolled ;-
(c) Every civil servant in whose case the Governor has decided that such civil servant should be enrolled;
(d) Every person who has reported himself at the office of the Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quarter Master General under the provisions of section 9 of this Ordinance; and
(e) Every person who has been convicted of un- lawfully failing so to report himself and who bas not successfully appealed against such conviction :
Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor to ourit from such Enrolment Lists the name of any person who before the twentieth day of May, 1918, applied to the Mili- tary Service Commission for permission to volunteer for active service outside the Colony.
(2.) Every person whose name appears in any such Eurolment List shall, as from the date of publication of such List, be deemed to have been enrolled in, and to belong to, the force referred to in section 11 of this Ordinance.
11.--(1.) The said force shall be called the General Military Service Force of Hongkong.
(2.) All the provisions of the Army Act, and of all orders and regulations for the time being in force there- under, and of all other Acts for the time being amending the Army Act, shall apply to the General Military Service Force of Hongkong, and to all persons belonging to the force, whether within or without the limits of the Colony, and whether such persons shall have been transferred or attached to some other corps or not.
(3.) For the purposes of the Army Act, and of the said orders and regulations, and of any Acts amending the Army Act, and of this Ordinance, every person belonging to the force shall be deemed to have been duly enlisted in His Majesty's regular forces for general service with the colours for the period of the war.
12.-(1.) Any enquiry by the Tribunal under the pro- visions of this Ordinance shall be conducted in public unless on any occasion the majority of the members of the Tri- bunal present on such occasion are of opinion that the enquiry on that occasion should be conducted wholly or partly in private.