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No. 19 of 1923. STATUTE LAWS (PROOF AND PRESERVATION).
printed by the Government Printers, containing a copy of such original, or of a volume of the Revised Edition, purporting to be impressed on the title page thereof with the seal of the Colony, containing such Ordinance.
(3) Any person shall be entitled to inspect any such originals or the copy of the Revised Edition during office hours on payment of twenty-five cents for such inspection not exceeding three hours, and to take copies or extracts therefrom for certification by the Registrar, on payment of twenty-five cents per folio of seventy-five words for each copy or extract.
[s. 4, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
[Originally No. 20 of 1923. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
Short title.
Appointment
No. 20 of 1923.
An Ordinance to regulate the Fire Brigade.
[28th September, 1923.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Fire Brigade Ordinance, 1923.
2. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a Chief Officer of Hongkong, officers, and members of a force (hereinafter called the Brigade), to which shall be entrusted the duty of extinguishing fires and protecting life and property in case of fire.
Compensation for accident, etc.
3.-(1) The Governor in Council may determine and order the payment of—
(a) such sums of money as he may deem fit to members of the Brigade by way of compensation for injury by accident during the performance of their duties; and
(b) such gratuities as he may deem fit to members of the Brigade or any other persons for extraordinary services performed in cases of fire.
(2) The Treasurer is authorised to make any such payments so ordered by the Governor in Council.