EXTRACT FROM H.K. GAZETTE NO. 61 OF 29.9.39.
No. 864.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 32 of 1939. (COMPULSORY SERVICE).
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (6) of section 11 of the Compulsory Service Ordinance, 1939, the Governor in Council adds the following regulation to the Hong Kong Defence Reserve Regulations published as Government Notification No. 828 in the Gazette of the 22nd September, 1939.
4. Any member of the key-posts group or of the general group for essential services who wishes to leave the Hong Kong Defence Reserve with the previous sanction of the Governor under section 11 (7) of the Compulsory Service Ordinance, 1939, must apply for such sanction through the Organizer of his group who will forward it with such con- ments or recommendations as he sees fit to make. Subject to any special directions they may receive from the Governor, the Organizers may grant in their discretion to members of their groups, leave of absence from the Colony not involving quitting the reserve, but without such leave no member of the reserve may quit the Colony.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
27th September, 1939.
T. MEGARRY,
Clerk of Councils.
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