THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 6, 1920.
to make contracts and conveyances, and to do all other lawful things relating thereto, and the administrative commandant of a volunteer corps shall be deemed to be
No. 5 of 1910,
a public officer within the meaning of the Crown Suits Ordinance Ordinance, 1910, and the service of any volunteer corps shall be decined to be a public service within the mean- ing of that Ordinance.
20. If any person fails to deliver up in good order Giving up of (fair wear and tear excepted) any arms, clothing or arms, etc. appointments which he is liable under this Ordinance or the rules framed hereunder to deliver up, he shall be liable to pay to the administrative commandant of the corps the value thereof as determined by a general com- mittee constituted in accordance with the rules framed under this Ordinance.
21. If any person belonging or having belonged to a Recovery of volunteer corps refuses or neglects to pay anything subscriptions subscribed or undertaken to be paid by him towards and fines. any of the funds or expenses of the corps or due under the rules of the corps and actually payable by him, or to pay any fine incurred by him under the rules of the corps, such money or fine shall (without prejudice to any other remedy) be recoverable from him, with costs, at any time within eighteen months after the same be- comes due and payable in manner hereinafter mentioned and, when recovered, shall be applied as part of the general fuud of the corps.
PART V.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
remedies.
22. Any money, pecuniary penalty, or fine recover- Summary able under this Ordinance may be recovered in a sum- mary way before a magistrate.
23. The administrative commandant of any volunteer Appearance corps may appear before a magistrate by any member before
magistrate of the corps authorised by him in writing under his hand. of adminis-
trative com- mandant.
etc.
24. The provisions of any Ordinance relating to the Storage of storage of gunpowder or explosives shall not apply to gunpowder, gunpowder or explosives belonging to any corps established or raised under this Ordinance; but such gunpowder and explosives shall only be stored in such places and subject to such regulations as may be approved by the Governor.
25. It shall be lawful for the Treasurer to pay to the Payment of administrative commandant of any volunteer corps for public
money for the purposes of the corps such sum in each year as may corps. be authorised by the Governor in Council out of moneys voted by the Legislative Council.
26.-1.) Every officer and volunteer shall, on his Oath of
allegiance. admission to a volunteer corps or as soon afterwards as may be, take the oath or make the declaration in the Second Schedule hereto to be administered by a Justice Second of the Peace, or by an officer of the corps who has taken Schedule. such oath or made such declaration.
(2.) Every person who was a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps on the 23rd day of December, 1919, shall be exempt from the provisions of this section, but such exemption shall not relieve any such person from any duty or liability to which he would have been subject if he had taken the oath or declaration of allegiance prescribed by sub-section (1) of this section.
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