Appeal before
Tribunal
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with, but shall include any voluntary retirement, resignation or leaving other than retirement or resignation on the grounds af age permitted under the law applicable to the Force, Constabulary or Corps to which such person belongs.
(2) Any person who is dissatisfied with a decision of the Director refusing him consent to quit the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force, the Special Constabulary or the Essential Services: Corps may appeal from such decision to the Compulsory Service
Tribunal constituted under section 11,
(3) Such person shall within seven days of service upon him of the decision of the Director forward to the Director a state- ment in writing notifying the Director of his dissatisfaction with his decision and the grounds therefor,
17. (1) The provisions of sections 12 and 13, other than paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section 13, shall apply to appeals made under section 16 as though the words "appeal" and "appellant" were substituted for the words "objection" and: "objector" respectively.
(a) The Compulsory Service Tribunal shall further have power to release an appellant from service for such period as it
nay specify.
PART III.
Compulsory Transfers.
Application 18. The provisions of this Part shall apply to citizens of of Part III. the United Kingdom and the Colonies who are members of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force, the Special Constabulary of the Essential Services Corps, whether they have become such members by virtue of the provisions of this Ordinance or otherwişti
Power of Director
to order
transfer.
19. The Director shall have power in the public interest (o order the transfer-
(e) of any person being a member of the Royal Hong Kong Kong Defence Force from the said Force to the Special Constabulary or the Essential Services Corps ; (b) of any person being a member of the Speci
Constabulary from the said Constabulary to the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force or to the Essential Services Corps;
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(c) of any person being a member of the Essential Service
Corps from the said Corps to the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force or to the Special Constabulary.
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for
20. The procedure for making an order for transfer under Procedure section 19 shall commence with the serving of a medical notice transfer. under subsection (1) of section 7 in like manner as if the person served were not a member of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force, the Special Constabulary or the Essential Services Corps, as the case may be, save that such notice shall state that it is given under this section. Thereafter the provisions of subsection (2) of section 7 and of sections 8 to 14 shall apply mutatis mutandis and with the following mudifications-
(a) the order for transfer shall be contained in the final notice
served on the person intended to be transferred;
(b) the person intended to be transferred shall be deemed to be a member of the Force, Constabulary or Corps from which he is being transferred until he has enrolled in the body in which he is directed by the final notice to enrol.
PART IV.
Miscellaneous.
members
Colonies who is a member, whether by virtue of the provisions t
21. (1) No citizen of the United Kingdom and the Restric-
departure of this Ordinance or otherwise, of the Royal Hong Kong from the Defence Force, the Special Constabulary or the Essential Services Colony of Corps, shall, as from such date as shall be ordered by the of the Governor in Council, depart from the Colony to any destination Royal
Hong Kong outside it other than to such places as may be specified in such Defence by the Immigration Officer or by a person authorized by him in Order, except under the authority of a written permit granted Force, etc. that behalf. with such directions as may from time to time be given by the Permits shall be granted or refused in accordance
Governor.
(2) The written permit referred to in subsection (1) shall be in the form of an endorsement of the travel document of the person desiring to depart from the Colony and such endorsement shall be in the form prescribed in the Schedule to this Ordinance.
(3) Any person to whom this section applies who departs or attempts to depart from the Colony without compliance with the requirement of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
22. Any order, notice or other document issued for the pur- Service of pose of carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance may be document. served either by being delivered personally to the person to whom it is addressed or by leaving it with some adult at such person's