THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 6, 1920.
(e) paying all money due or becoming due by him under this Ordinance or under any regulations made thereunder or under the rules of the corps, either before or at the time or by reason of his quitting it ;
and thereupon he shall be struck out of the muster roll of the corps by the administrative commandant.
(2.) If any volunteer gives such notice and the administrative commandant refuses to strike him out of the muster roll, and the volunteer considers himself aggrieved thereby, the volunteer may appeal to a magistrate, who shall hear and determine the appeal, and may, for the purposes thereof, administer oaths and examine any person as a witness, and, if it appears to the magistrate that the arms, clothing, and appoint- ments issued to the volunteer, being public property or property of his corps, have been delivered up in good order (fair wear and tear only excepted), or that he has paid or is ready to pay sufficient compensation for any damages that such articles may have sustained, and that all moneys due or becoming due by him under this Ordinance or under any regulations made thereunder or under the rules of his corps, either before or at the time of or by reason of his quitting it, have been paid, the magistrate may order the administrative comman- dant forthwith to strike such volunteer out of the muster roll of his corps, and such determination shall be binding on all persons.
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(3.) Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore tained, every volunteer shall be deemed to have engaged himself to serve for a period of three years from the date of his first admission to his corps, and if he quits, or is discharged from, the corps before the expiration of the first year of the said period he shall pay to the administrative commandant of his corps the sum of sixty dollars, if after the expiration of the first year and before the expiration of the second year the sum of forty dollars, and if after the expiration of the second year and before the expiration of the third year the sum of twenty dollars: Provided that no such sum shall be payable by a volunteer who, in the opinion of the administrative commandant, bonâ fide intends to leave the Colony forthwith for a period of at least one year, or who quits his corps for any other cause which the administrative commandant may consider reasonable and bonâ fide.
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6. Whenever any volunteers are on actual military Volunteers service, or are undergoing drill exercise or inspection to be under together with His Majesty's regular forces, or are volun- command of tarily doing duty together with such forces, they and regular their officers shall, subject to any regulations made forces. under this Ordinance, be under the command of the officers of His Majesty's regular forces, so, nevertheless, that the volunteers shall, when the circumstances of the service admit, be led by their own officers under such command.
7. An annual inspection of every volunteer corps Amual shall be held by a general or field officer of His inspection. Majesty's army.
8. The Governor in Council may by regulations Requisites of declare what is requisite to entitle a volunteer to be efficiency to deemed an efficient volunteer by defining for that be declared purpose the extent of attendance at drill to be given by in Council,
by Governor the volunteer, the course of instruction to be gone through by him, and the degree of proficiency in drill and instruction to be attained by him and bis corps, such proficiency to be judged of by the inspecting officer at the annual inspection of the corps or otherwise as prescribed,
9. The Governor may disband or discontinue the Disbanding services of any volunteer corps or any part thereof of corps. whenever it may seem to him expedient to do so.
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