Compulsory
service tribunal.
Medical
examina- tion.
Schedule,
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(b) members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps or the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force;
(c) civilians in the employment of the naval, military or air force authorities;
(d) men in holy orders and such regular ministers of recognized religious denominations as the Governor in Council may exempt;
(e) men who have left or been discharged from the naval, military or air service of the Crown in consequence of dis- ablement or ill-health;
any person who is, under the provisions of any Act in force in a Dominion, a national or citizen of that Dominion within the meaning of that Act, or who is a person born or domiciled in a Dominion, if in either case he has been ordinarily resident in this Colony for less than two years;
(g) the Chief Justice, the Puisne Judge, members of the Executive or Legislative Councils and the United Kingdom and Dominion Trade Commissioners;
(h) members of the Police Force or of the Fire Brigade.
(2) In the application of this Ordinance to civil servants, the following modifications shall have effect, namely, that the inquiry shall be held by the Governor and not by the compulsory service tribunal, and that the Governor may, upon such inquiry as he thinks fit, decide that any civil servant of or over the age of eighteen years, who has not attained the age of fifty-five years, shall be enrolled in such group of the reserve as the Governor may direct: There shall be no appeal from a decision of the Governor under this section.
4. (1) The Governor shall appoint such and so many persons as he thinks fit, not being less in number than five, to form a tribunal to be called the Compulsory Service Tribunal.
(2) If any member of the compulsory service tribunal dies. resigns, is absent from the Colony or unable to act, the Governor may appoint any person whom he thinks fit to fill the place of such member, either temporarily or permanently.
(3) The Governor may appoint a chairman of the com- pulsory service tribunal. The chairman shall preside at all sittings of the tribunal at which he is present, and in his absence the members of the tribunal present shall choose one of their number to preside at the sitting in question.
(4) Three members of the compulsory service tribunal shall constitute a quorum.
(5) The Governor may also appoint a clerk to the compul- sory service tribunal. Any order, summons, subpoena, notice, notification or other document issued or published by the tribunal may be issued and published in the name of the said clerk.
5.-(1) Subject to the provisions of section 3, it shall be lawful for the proper authority at any time to order any male British subject of or over the age of eighteen years, Form No. 1 who for the time being is ordinarily resident in this Colony and has not attained the age of fifty-five years, to attend at such time and place as may be specified in the order and there to submit himself to be medically examined for the purposes of this Ordinance.