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Printed for the use of the Colonial Office, February, 1907.
EASTERN
No. 85.
[Third Edition.]
(4228/07.)
This Meme is revised
from time to time
HONG KONG, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, AND FEDERATED MALAY STATES POLICE PROBATIONERS.
1. With the view of supplying the Police Service of Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and the Federated Malay States, Probationerships have been established, the holders of which will be required to serve in either of the above mentioned Colonies or in the States, and to devote themselves for a certain time after their arrival in the East to learning one or more native languages. Probationers appointed to this service will in the first instance be allotted to the States or to one or other of the Colonies, and will, as a rule, look for promotion only in the States or in that Colony, but it must be distinctly understood that they will be liable to be transferred at any time from one to another, without being given compensation for any special local privileges or allowances.
2. The Probationers will be selected by competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commissioners.
The examination for these appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of June or July, in those years in which vacancies have occurred, simultaneously with the examination for the Indian Police Force in the same subjects and the same papers. Candidates may compete for both the Indian and Colonial services at the same time.
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Applications for admission to the combined examination should addressed to the Secretary, Judicial and Public Department, India Office, in the manner laid down in the Regulations for admission to the Indian Police Force, issued by that Department. These regulations also contain full information as to the subjects for examination.
Applications for admission to the examination of candidates for the Police Forces of the Colonies and Federated Malay States only should be addressed to the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office. They must reach that Depart- ment not later than the 1st of May.
3. Candidates must be above 19 and under 21 years of age on the first day of June in the year in which the examination is held. They must be unmarried, and if they marry before reaching the East they will forfeit their appointments.
Every Candidate must be a British subject of European descent, and at the time of his birth his father must have been a British subject, either natural- born or naturalized in the United Kingdom.* He must, if called upon to do so,
• In the case of persons who enter both for the Indian and for the Colonial Services the decision of the Secretary of State for India in Council as to whether a candidate satis- fies this condition will be final. No candidate who has been rejected as not qualified in thie respect for the Indian Service will be accepted as a candidate for the Colonial Forces. In the case of persons competing only for admission to the Colonial Forces the decision of the Secretary of State for the Colonies will be final.
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