(7.) All appointments and promotions of members of the staff and of officers shall be notified in the Gazette and shall take effect from the date of such Gazette or from such other date as may be specified in the notification.
(8.) The appointment and promotion of all members of the staff and officers are vested in the Governor.
promotion of
6.--(1.) If any vacancy exists or occurs in the total Appoint- establishment of non-commissioned officers the members ment and of the company in which the vacancy exists or occurs non-com- shall submit to the officer commanding the company missioned the name of the person proposed by them for appoint- officers, ment as a non-commissioned officer.
(2.) Promotion will be subject to the passing of such an examination as may be prescribed or approved by the General Officer Commanding the Troops.
(3.) The appointment and promotion of all non-com- missioned officers of companies shall be vested in the officer commanding the company.
TRAINING.
7. The training to be carried out will be as prescribed Training. in the First Appendix hereto.
EQUIPMENT.
First Appendix.
8.--(1.) Officers will provide and maintain their own Uniform. uniform and appointments according to the scale laid Second down in the Second Appendix hereto.
Appendix.
(2.) Other ranks will be provided with uniform in Third accordance with the scale laid down in the Third Appendix. Appendix hereto.
(3.) Under no circumstances may articles of quiform be worn with plain clothes.
allowance.
9-(1) An allowance towards the cost of his outfit Officers' of not more than two hundred dollars will be paid to outfit each officer on his first appointment as an officer in the Corps: provided that this paragraph shall not apply to those officers who were officers of the Hongkong Defence Corps inmediately before the repeal of the Military Service Ordinance, 1917, unless the General Officer Commanding the Troops shall otherwise direct.
(2.) Should an officer fail to become proficient within twelve months from appointment he shall at the discre- tion of the Administrative Commandant be liable to refund all or part of the allowance made to him.
(3.) Should an oflicer leave the Corps within two years of appointment he shall at the discretion of the Administrative Commandant be liable to refund all or part of the allowance made to him.
STORES.
10. A stock book for stores issued on payment shall Stock book be kept shewing the nature and value of each article to be kept. and the member of the Corps to whom it is issued.
11. For every receipt and issue of stores there shall Order book be a voucher. An order book for all stores required to be kept. shall be kept and on receipt of the stores entry shall be made in the stock book. The receipt vouchers shall -consist of the counterfoils of the order book, or of invoices from the Crown Agents, or from firms or departments which supply stores. Issue vouchers shall consist of receipts signed by the members of the Corps to whom the stores are issued on an issue book with pages numbered consecutively. The issue book shall be checked by the Administrative Commandant and eách signature shall be authenticated by his initials.
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