Objects and Reasons.
The principal object of this Ordinance is to substitute an Air Arm for the Flying Section of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and to enact provisions in the Volunteer Ordinance, 1933, and the regulations thereunder appropriate to this unit. The cost of training members of this unit will be considerable. It is considered therefore that they should engage to serve for periods of four years at a time, and not merely for three years as is the case in the other Corps units.
If they cease, without permission, to serve in the unit during any such period they will be required to refund the cost to the Government of their training in that period up to a maximum of $500. Similarly they will be required to make a refund in respect of any year in which they do not complete the requirements of efficiency, which will be at least six flying hours per quarter.
The new section 26A, providing for medical attendance in a Government Hospital for wounds, injuries or illness incurred whilst on duty on terms similar to those granted to Government Officers, is applicable to all members of the Corps and not merely to members of the Air Arm.
Clause 6 makes certain verbal changes in the principal Ordinance as the result of suggestions contained in the War Office letter of the 29th September 1933 enclosed with the Secretary of State's despatch of the 9th November 1933.
Section 7 makes a reduction in the allowances which will be made to officers, warrant officers and non-commissioned officers attending courses of instruction in the United Kingdom.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
September, 1935.
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