THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 8, 1939.
pilotage or light vessel services who has become disabled, be construed as a condition or requirement that the wife shall have married that mariner or member before the date on which he sustained the war injury to which his disablement is directly attributable or the date of the commencement of the detention to which his disablement is directly attributable;
(m) any condition or requirement in the Naval Order that a woman living with a person as the wife of that person shall have been wholly or substantially maintained by that person on a permanent bona fide domestic basis continuously from a date not less than six months prior to the commence- ment of the war or to the first employment of that person with the Forces, if later, shall, in relation to a mariner or a member of the pilotage or light vessel services who has died or become disabled, as the case may be, be construed as a condition or requirement that that woman shall have been so maintained by that mariner or member continuously from a date not less than six months prior to the date on which he sustained the war injury to which his death or disablement, as the case may be, is directly attributable, or to the date of the commencement of any detention to which his death or disablement, as the case may be, is directly attributable;
(a) any general conditions which by virtue of paragraph (3) of Article 1 of the Naval Order are made applicable to grants under the Naval Order shall apply in relation to the grant, issue and administration of awards under this Part of this Scheme to mariners and members of the pilotage or light vessel services subject, nevertheless, to such modifications and exceptions as the Minister may think necessary having regard to the provisions and general purposes of this Part of this Scheme and to the differences between the circumstances existing in the case of members of the Naval Forces and the circumstances existing in the case of mariners and members of the pilotage or light vessel services.
certificates
4.--(1) A certificate that the disablement of a mariner Conditions or member of the pilotage or light vessel services is directly of granting attributable to a war injury sustained by him, or to his deten- relating to tion, shall not be given unless the certifying medical authority disablement. by whom the certificate is to be given is satisfied by evidence in contemporary records, or by other definite evidence, or by such evidence as the Minister may direct or prescribe in any special case or class of case, that the mariner or member has sustained a war injury or has sustained or contracted a wound, injury or disease directly attributable to his detention.
(2) No certificate that the disablement of a mariner or member of the pilotage or light vessel services is directly attributable to a war injury sustained by him, or to his detention, shall be granted in any case where the war injury, detention, or the wound, injury or disease directly attributable to that detention, is deemed by the Minister to be due to the serious negligence or misconduct of that mariner or member.
with cases of
5.--(1) Where a mariner or member of the pilotage or Provisions light vessel services has suffered disablement directly attribut- for dealing able to two or more separate war injuries, or two or more two or more detentions, or to both a war injury and a detention, his degree disable- of disablement shall be certified by reference to the combined disablement directly attributable to those war injuries, or detentions, or to that war injury and that detention.
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