Colling our of Force in an
envergency.
Pay and cmoluments.
(4) generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance.
PART II.
CALLING OUT.
14 (1) In case of an emergency the Governor may hy proclamation call out the Force or any part thereof.
(2) Evary officer and every volunteer so called out shall be bound to assemble at such place as he may be directed by his Service Commander and to carry out any lawful command.
(3) Every such officer and every volunteer so called out shall be deemed to he so called out from the time at which he reports at the place directed by his Service Commander. Any officer or volunteer who fails to report at the place so directed shull be linble to be charged with desertion unless within 7 days he shows good cause to the satisfaction of the Commandant why be was unable to report as directed.
(4) Au officer or volunteer who has been called out shall remain so called out for as long as the Governor considers necessary, and shall only be released from such service by order of the Governor.
(6) In any proceedings whatsoever the production of a copy of a number of the Gazette containing what purports tu be a proclamation under sub-section (1) hereof, shall for all purposes whatsoever be conclusive proof that the said proclamation was lawfully issued and that the Force, or the part thereof, referred to in the said proclamation, was duly called out on the date which purports to be the date of auch nuraber of the Gazette.
15. (1) All officers and volunteers shall when called out or under training receive full pay and emoluments appropriate to their anita at rates in accordance with the Force Pay Code and, in addition, when serving in the Culuny receive a cost of living allowance at the current rute adruissible to a servant of the Goveni. ent of Hong Kong caruing a similar amount as salary subject, nevertheless, to a minimuni rate to be fixed from time to time by the Governor in Council,
(2) When called out an officer or volunteer, who is required by the exigencies of service to live in a country different to that of his family, his high cost of living allowance shall be usseased by the Governor in Council on the cost of living prevailing at his family's place of residence.
16. (1) Every officer and every volunteer, irrespective of Pensions for
disabled mem- nationality, who when called out, in training or under instruction bers of the sustains wounds or injuries or contracts an illness, which in the Force and for opinion of a board constituted for the purpose of this section, is widows and attributable to or aggravated by such service, shall be entitled to families of apply for the appropriate disability peusion at Force Pay Code those who lose
rates.
their lives whilst called out, in train-
(2) The widow of an officer or volunteer, as declared on ing or under the date of enlistment or as subsequently notified to the instruction. Commandant, who loses his life whilst called out, in training or under instruction or whose death is, in the opinion of a board coustituted for the purpose of this section, attributable to illness caused or aggravated by such service shall, irrespective of the deceased's nationality, be entitled —
(a) to a widow's persion payable at Force Pay Code rates applicable to the deceased's rauk and appropriate to his unit; and
(7) additional allowance for children payuble at Force Pay Code rates applicable to the deceased's rank and appropriate to his unit.
(3) The parents and other legal dependants of an officer or volunteer, as declared on the date of enlistment or JOLEK subsequently notified to the Commandant and accepted by him as auch," who loses his life wbilst called out, in training or under instruction or whose death is, in the opinion of a board constituted for the purpose of this section, attributable to illness caused or aggravated by such service shall, irrespective of the deceased's nationality, be entitled to claim a parents' or dependants pension in respect of the deceased. Such a pension shall be paid at Force Pay Code rates applicable to the deceased's rank and appropriate to his unit.
(4) An unmarried dependant declared on the date of enlistment or as subsequently notified to the Commandant as living as a wife of an officer or volunteer who loses his life whilst called out, fu training or under instruction or whose death is, in the opinion of a hoard constituted for the purpose of this section, sitributable to illness caused or aupravated by such service shall, irrespective of the deceased's nationality, be entitled to claim a pension in respect of the deceased. Such a pension shall be paid at Force Pay Code rates applicable to the 'deceased's rank ‘and appropriate to bis unit,
(6) All pensions paid under the provisions of this section shall be augmented whilst the pensioner is resident in the Colony by a cost of living allowance to be fixed from time to time by the Governor in Council.
(8) The Glovernor may, if he reasonably suspects that a claim to pension under this Ordinance is made fraudulently or by a person not entitled thereto, refuse payments of, or may authorise payments in part only of any pension payable or any additional pension which many hereafter become payable under this section,