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class (providing that the Commanding Officers of the same are willing to receive them) whether vacancies on the establishments exist or not. Soldiers so re-enlisted will be permitted, on foregoing all claims to pension or gratuity under the terms of the Royal Warrant, to count the whole of their former service for good-conduct pay and pension as specified in clause (i) (a) above, and those re-enlisting for service with the colours will, in addition, be granted the concessions specified in clause (1) (b) and (c) idem.
The rates of pay, good-conduct pay, and pension
to which soldiers of the Hong Kong Regiment will be entitled
on re-enlistment are specified in Army Regulations, India,
Volume I, Part II, Articles 46.C. 87, 88, 91 and 522.
VIII. Subject to the condition that their characters
are described as "good" in the certificates granted them
on discharge from the Hong Kong Regiment, soldiers re-
enlisting in the Indian Army, whether for colour or reserve
service, under the provisions of paragraph VI, will at once
be granted the rate of good-conduct pay to which they would
have been entitled had their service since enlistment been
under the Indian Articles of War instead of under the Army
Act, or partly under the latter and partly under the former.
The three years' approved service and refund of gratuity
required by Army Regulations, India, Volume I, Part II,
Articles 531 and 542, will in such cases not be enforced.
All expenditure incurred under paragraph VI will
be debited to the Government of India.
IX.
X. All bedding, personal clothing, and necessaries
in possession of Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of
the Hong Kong Regiment on their return to India shall become
their private property to be disposed of in any way they
please.
XI.