Constitu tion,
Administra tion.
Enrolment.
Apprint:
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Equipment
to he supplied.
(b) uniform and equipment.
(c) training.
(d) duties, obligations and responsibilities of mombers in
time of peace, in time of emergency and in time of war.
(e) numerical strength of the Corps.
()) pay.
(7) conditions of resignation when called out for active service.
() gratuities and pensions to members for wounds, or injuries received whilst on duty.
(4) gratuities and pensions to widows and dependents of members who are killed on duty, or whose death is directly traceable to wounds or injuries received or exposure or illness contracted whilst on duty.
()the general government, discipline and good order of the Corps.
(k) such other things as may be necessary or desirable for the carrying into effect of the provisions of this Ordin-
ance.
4. The Corpa shall consist of a Director of Air Baid Precautions, and such members as the Governor in Council may from time to time direct.
5. The Director of Air Raid Precautions, subject to the control of the Governor and the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be charged with the direction and administration of the Corps.
6. The Director of Air Raid Precautions may enrol in the Corps such persons who qualify for enrolment in accord- ence with the regulations for the time being in force and who offer their services for such duties, either in general for the public interests or in particular for approved private interests, as may be allotted to them by Officers of the Corps, and every person so enrolled shall become a member of the Corps and subject to the provisions of this Ordinance provided that he or she sigus the following declaration-
**I have read or had explained to me the Hong Kong Corps of Air Raid Wardens Ordinance 1940 and I agree to carry out sneh duties, general or particular, that may be allotted to me by duly authorized Officers of the Corps."
7-(1) The Chief Air Raid Wardens shall be appointed by the Governor and they may be dismissed only by the Governor.
(2) All other Officers, Subordinate Officers and Wardens may be appointed, promoted, reduced or dismissed by the Director of Air Raid Precautions.
(3) Any of the powers conferred on the Director of Air Raid Precautions by this Ordinance may be exercised by any Officers deputed for that purpose by the Director of Air Raid Precautions.
8. Every member of the Corps shall be supplied with such uniform and equipment as may be prescribed by the Director of Air Raid Precautions.
9-(1) All Corps equipment shall be and remain the Equipment property of the Government,"
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(2) All Corps equipment shall, when required by the oth Director of Air Raid Precautions, be produced or delivered up as directed by him.
(5) On the death, resignation or discharge of any member of the Corps the person or persons into whose hands the Corps equipment of the deceased shall come shall forthwith return the same to the Director of Air Raid Precautions.
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10-(1) If any member of the Corps wilfully makes Equippal away with, sells, pawus, or wilfully damages, destroys or b negligently loses or unlawfully refuses or neglects to produce disposed of. or deliver up any Corps equipment issued to him the value thereof shall be recoverable from him summarily before a magistrate by the Director of Air Raid Precautions or bia representative.
(2) If any person knowingly buys or takes in exchange or in pawn from any member of the Corps, or any person acting on his behalf, or solicits or entices any member of the Corps to sell or pawn, or has in his possession without lawful authority or excuse any Corps equipment, such persons shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollara and imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
11.-(1) In case of apprehended or actual attack on the Calling ontf Colony the Governor by proclamation may call out for active for active service all or any members of the Corps."
(2) Every member of the Corps so called out shall attend
at such place and perform such duties as the Director of Air
Raid Precautions or his Officers shall direct.
(3) The period of such active service shall end only by
proclamation of the Governor.
service.
12. Every member of the Corps when called out on Pay when servica shall be entitled to such pay and allowances, if
any.
as may be laid down by Regulations.
called out.
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13. All members of the Corps who shall have received Penamus or wounds or injuries when on active service, whether employed gratui on general public duties, or as House Wardens on particular disabled and private duties, and the widows and familics or dependents of ind all such members who have been killed or have died of those kille wounds or injuries received during such active service, or parvice. have died from illness directly traceable to fatigue or exposure incident to such active service shall be eligible for such pen- sions or gratuities as the Governor in Council shall fix.
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14. It shall be lawful for the Director of Air Raid Powers of Precautions
(i) to make departmental orders as he may think fit for the carrying out of the routine of the Corps and for regulating The internal economy thereof;
(i) to issue such orders as he may deem necessary to make the Corps efficient and to maintain it as such and to see that such orders are duly obeyed;
(ii) to take full charge of the Corps when it is called cut for active service and to issue all necessary orders for
the Dirnator of Air Raid Erecautions.
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