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Ordinance
No. 5 of 1910.
Giving up of arms, etc.
and fines.
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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 a public officer within the meaning of the Crown Suits Ordinance, 1910, and the service of any volunteer corps shall be deemed to be a public service within the mean- ing of that Ordinance.
20. If any person fails to deliver up in good order (fair wear and tear excepted) any arms, clothing or 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.
Recovery of 21. If any person belonging or having belonged to a subscriptions volunteer corps refuses or neglects to pay anything subscribed or undertaken to be paid by him towards 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 fund of the corps.
Summary remedies.
Appearance before magistrate of adminis- trative com- mandant.
Storage of gunpowder,
etc.
Payment of public money for corps.
Oath of allegiance.
Second Schedule,
PART V.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
22. Any money, pecuniary penalty, or fine recover- able under this Ordinance may be recovered in a sum- mary way before a magistrate.
23. The administrative commandant of any volunteer corps may appear before a magistrate by any member of the corps authorised by him in writing under his hand.
24. The provisions of any Ordinance relating to the storage of gunpowder or explosives shall not apply to 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 administrative commandant of any volunteer corps for the purposes of the corps such sum in each year as may be authorised by the Governor in Council out of moneys voted by the Legislative Council.
26.—(1.) Every officer and volunteer shall, on his 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 of the Peace, or by an officer of the corps who has taken 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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