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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 130. The following bill, which was read a second time at a meeting of the Legislative Council held on the 6th June, 1918, and which was amended in Committee, is published for general information. The additions made in Committeee are shown in italics and the omissions in square brackets.
Clause 4 was left over to be finally disposed of at the next meeting. In the case of that clause the italics and square brackets indicate amendments which will be proposed on behalf of the Government.
The Committee stage on the bill will be resumed on Monday, the 10th June, 1918, after which the bill will be read a third time.
A BILL
Short title.
Interpreta- tion.
Application.
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INTITULED
An Ordinance to provide for the raising of a force the members of which shall be liable to service with His Majesty's Forces outside the Colony during the present war.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the General Military Servico Ordinance, 1918.
2. In this Ordinance :-
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"Civil Servant means a [person] who is in the British subject
employment of the Government of the Colony
and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Government:
"Competent Military Authority” shall have the
same meaning as in the Army Act:
"Enrolment Lists " mean the lists referred to in
section [9] of this Ordinance:
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"Force" means the force referred to in [section sections 10 and 11
10] of this Crdinance :
"Proper Authority' means the person appointed
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by the Governor for the purposes of sections [5 and 11] of this Ordinance:
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Proper Military Authority means the person appointed, for the purposes of section 7 of this Ordinance, by the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of His Majesty's regular troops within the Colony :
"Tribunal " means the tribunal referred to in sec-
tion 4 of this Ordinance.
3.-(1.) This Ordinance shall not apply to any of the
5 and 6 Geo. following persous :--
5, c. 104.
First
Schedule.
General Military Service Tribunal.
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(a) Members of His Majesty's Regular Naval or
Military Forces :
(6) Civilians in the employment of the Naval or
Military Authorities:
(e) Men in holy orders and such regular ministers of recognised religious denominatious as the Governor in Council may exempt:
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(d) Men who have left or been discharged from the naval or military service of the Crown in consequence of disablement or ill-health, and [ ] men who have been discharged from the naval or military service of the Crown on the termina- tion of their period of service].
(2.) In the application of this Ordinance to civil servants, the following modifications shall have effect, namely, that the enquiry shall be held by the Governor and not by the Tribunal, and that it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon such enquiry as he shall think fit, to [include any civil servant in an Enrolment List].
decide that any
civil servant of or
4.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint over the age of eighteen such and so many persons as he may think fit, not being years, who shall not less in number than seven, to form a tribunal to be called have attained the age the General Military Service Tribunal, which shall contain of forty years before a substantial commercial majority. [The said tribunal the commencement of is hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal].
this Ordinance, should
be enrolled in the force