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(d) any office or rank in any naval, military or air force constituted by or raised under any enactment or in the police force;
(e) any office specified in the First Schedule. (Replaced, 68 of 1975, s. 2)
(3) The Legislative Council may by resolution amend the First Schedule. (Added, 68 of 1975, s. 2)
7. (1) The Chairman and members of the Commission shall be entitled to such remuneration and allowances as may from time to time be voted by the Legislative Council:
Provided that in the event of a temporary appointment under section 3(5) such appointee shall be entitled to such remuneration and allowances as the Governor may approve not exceeding the scale of remuneration and allowances which would have been applicable had the appointment been made under section 3(1). (Amended, 27 of 1974, s. 6)
(2) The receipt by the Chairman or by any member of the Commission of any remuneration or allowance voted or otherwise provided for under subsection (1) shall not be deemed to cause the Chairman or any such member to be subject to Colonial Regulations or to the Regulations of the Hong Kong Government.
8. The Chairman and members of the Commission shall on first appointment, whether appointed under section 3(1) or (5), take an oath or make an affirmation, each according to his conscience, in the form in the Second Schedule, which shall be administered by a judge of the High Court.
(Amended, 34 of 1968, s. 3; 27 of 1974, s. 6, and 68 of 1975, s. 3)
9. Any person who in connexion with an application by any person for employment or promotion in the public service or with any matter upon which it is the duty of the Commission to advise the Governor under this Ordinance, wilfully gives to the Commission or to the Chairman or a member thereof or to any person or body of persons appointed by any regulation to assist the Commission in the exercise of its functions or the discharge of its duties, any information which is false by reason of the falsity of, or by reason of the omission of, a material particular, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of $2,000 and imprisonment for 2 years.
(Amended, 32 of 1961, s. 3)
10. Any report, statement or other communication which the Commission may in the exercise of its functions or the discharge of its duties hereunder make to the Government of Hong Kong or to the Governor or to the Chief Secretary or to the head of a department of Government shall be privileged in that its production may not be compelled in any legal proceedings unless the Governor under the
First Schedule.
Remuneration of the Chairman and members.
Oath of Chairman and members.
Second Schedule.
Offence of giving false information to Commission.
Reports and statements or other communications of Commission privileged.
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