Dopert Dental ortlera.
Delegation of powers.
J'enalty on conviction before a magistrate for neglect of duty, etc.
Amen Incot of Ordinance No. 27 of 1014,
5.
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 27 of 1914, s. 8.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 27 of 1914, a. 9.
Repeal of Urlinance No. 27 of 1914, 8. 10, and substitu- tion of new section.
Amendment
of Schedules.
4. It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent to issue such departmental orders as he may think fit for the carrying out of the daily routine of the force and for regulating the internal economy thereof.
5. Any of the powers conferred on the Captain Super- intendent of Police by this Ordinance may be exercised by any Dopaty or Assistant Superintendent of the Reserve deputed for that purpose by the Captain Superintendent of Police.
8. If any member of the Hongkong Police Reserve commits a breach of my regulation made under section 3 of this Ordinance, or refuses or neglects to obey any lawful order of any of his superior officers, or is guilty of any other breach of discipline or neglect of duty, he shall upon samary conviction be liable to a fiae not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
7. Section 5 of the principal Orlimauce is amended by the deletion of the words of the Hongkong Police Force"
in the second and third lines thereof,
8. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion of the words when called out for service" between the word "or" and the word "under" in the third line thereof.
9. Section 9 of the principal Ordiuauce is repealed.
10.—(1) Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is repented and the following section ia substituted there- for :-
Calling
out for service.
10. The Governor may, by proclamation, whenever it appears to him advisable
to do so, call the Reserve out for service, and thereupon every person who is a member of the Reserve at the cominence- meat of such proclamation, and every person who becomes a member of clie Reservo after tho commencement of such proclamation and bofore the issue of a proclamation caucalling such call- ing out, shall have the same powers for the preservation of the peace, the pre- vention of offences, the apprehension of offenders, and for all other purposes, and the same privileges, protection, aud immunities, as the members of the regular police force of corresponding runk and standing, until the Governor sbali by proclamation cancel such call- ing out: Provided that this section shall not confer any right to any pay or compensation or roward, or any exemp- tion from liability to jury service.
(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 10 of the principal Ordinance and the substitution therefor of the above new section, it shall be lawful for the Governor, ut such time as he may think fit, by proclamation to cancel the enrolment proclaimed under the sail first mentioned section on the third day of September, 1915.
11.—(1.) The Schedules to the principal Ordinance aro unended by the substitution of the word "Hongkong" for the word "Special" wherever the latter word occure there-
iu.
(2.) Scheinle A to the principal Ordinance is amended by the substitution of the words and figures "Ordinances, 1914 and 1917" for the word and figures "Ordinance, 1914" in the fourth line of the engagement.
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12. The proclamation de muder section 10 of the Declaration principal Ordinance on the third day of September, 1915, as to the shall be deemed to apply, and at all times to have applied, effect of both to all members of the Reserve at the coming into effect of such proclamation and also to all persons becoming under
tion made members of the Reserve during the period between the Ordinance coming into effect of such proclamation and the coming No. 27 of into effect of a proclamation cancelling the enrolment; and 1914, 8, 10, al! persous who shall have signed the engagement in Schedule September, on the 3rd A to the principal Ordinance, whether before or after the 1915. publiention of any such proclamation, and whether before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, and who shall have not beeu strnck off the strength, or beel dismissed, or been allowed to resign, or who shall not otherwise have ceased to be merahers of the Reserve with the consent or by the direction of the Captain Superinteu- dent of Police, shall, during the continuance of any such proclamation, be deemed to be, and at all times during their membership of the Reserve to have been, subject to the provisions of the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, as if Ordinance they had been appointed and euroiled as special constables No. 10 of ander the said Ordinance, and, during spel continuance,
1846. shall have, and shall be deemed to have had at all times during their membership of the Reserve, all the powers, privileges, protection and immunities conferred, muud all the duties and liabilities imposed, ou special constables by the said Ordinance.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 13th
day of September, 1917.
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clark of Churcils,
Assented to by His Excelleney the Governor, the 14th
day of September, 1917.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
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