THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 11, 1918.
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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
General Military Service Ordinance, 1918.
Ordinance No. 9 of 1918.
No. 395. The following persons shall, as from the date of publication of this List, be deemed to have been enrolled in, and to belong to, the General Military Service Force of Hongkong:-
PERCY RICHARD GLENDINNING.
Joseph DOUGLAS BIRRELL.
Dated the 11th day of October, 1918.
By Order,
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Colonial Secretary.
No. 396.---It is hereby notified that the following arrangements have been made for the insurance of men whose names appear in the Gazette as being deemed to have been enrolled in and to belong to the General Military Service Force of Hongkong:-
1. Each married man, having a wife of pure European descent, is insured against
death in the sum of £2,000.
2. Each married man, having a wife not of pure European descent, is insured
against death in the sum of £1,000.
3. No part of this sum of £2,000 or £1,000, as the case may be, may be bequeathed by will or otherwise. Its allocation is in the sole discretion of the Govern- ment; and it is the intention that the whole sum shall be applied in making provision for the wife, and children if any. Any representations as to the disposition of the money, that the man insured may wish to make, will receive
careful consideration.
4. Each unmarried man is insured against death in the sum of £1,000.
5. This sum or any part of it may be bequeathed by will. In the event of the man insured dying intestate the money will be dealt with under the law of intestate succession.
6. In the event of disablement a gratuity, based upon the degree of disablement,
will be paid.
7. The amount of the gratuity, which will in no case exceed the sum in which the man disabled is insured, will be assessed by the Treasurer and one Un- official Member of the Legislative Council, who will be guided by the medical certificate issued by the Military Authorities, and, as far as possible, by the Army rules regarding disablement. The amount of gratuity recommended will be referred to the Governor in Council, whose decision in the matter will be final.
8. The foregoing rules take effect, as regards each individual man, from the date on which he leaves the Colony for the purpose of proceeding upon active service. The rules will continue to apply to each man until the date on which he is entitled to his discharge from the Army at the end of the present war. They will not apply to a man who continues to serve in the Army after he is entitled to his discharge.
9. Any payments under these rules will be apart from and additional to any
payments under Army Rules.
10. If death or disablement occurs through a man's own fault or not as a result of his military duties, the Governor in Council may withhold the whole or any part of the payment provided for under these rules.
11. All payments under these rules will be made out of the current revenues of
the Colony.
12. The Governor in Council shall, in his sole discretion, decide any question that
may arise regarding the application or interpretation of these rules.