Power co Governor to raise☐ defence force.
Commanding Officer' means the person for the time being in command of one of the units of the Force, and in the event of there being no such person, means the officer who is moet senior in rank in that particular unit;
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"omergency" means any occasion which the Governor in Council may consider of sufficient gravity to warrant the calling out of the Force or any part thereof;
**Force"
the Force which the Governor is authorised to raise and maintain under section 3;
"Force Pay Code" means the British Pay Code and the British Pensions Code applicable to the Royal Nory, the Army and the Royal Air Force respectively as existing on the first day of January, 1949: Provided that in giving effect to this interpretation all oŭirers soil volunteers shall be deemed to be Inally domiciled;
**instruction" means the performance of drills or paredes at auch time and pluce an ordered by the Commandant or Commanding Officer, other than parades or drills which are performed during a period of training;.
"Naval Force" means the Hong Kong` Navnl Forer; "officer" meNDA a person holding a commission us an officer in the Fores;
"Regiment" means the Hong Kong Regiment;
"Service Discipline Acts" means the Naval Discipline Act, the Army Act and the Air Force Act:
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"training" meaua a period of consecutiva attendance at ench time and place as ordered by the Commondant or Commanding Officer of not less than 24 hours' duration;
"unmarried dependant" in relation to an officer or volunteer means a person wholly or substantially maintained by Much officer or volunteer on a permanent bona fide domestic basis throughout the period beginning six months prior to the commence- ment of his calling out, training or instruction and continuing up to the date of his death;
"volunteer" means a member of the Force not being an officer thereof; and
"Women's Volunteer Force" means the Hong Kong Women's Volunteer Force.
PART I
ORGANIZATION.
3. It shall be lawful for the Goveron to raise and maintain a force of volunteers for the defence of the Colony to be known up the Hong Kong Defence Force and in his discretion to accept the services of any person desiring to be enrolled as a volunteer.
4.
The Force shall be raised and maintained at the expense Forss to be of the Colony out of moneys provided by the Legislative Council. mind at
the expense of the Colony,
5.
Frits.
(1) The Force shall consist of such units and sub-unite Porcę to ns the Governor may determine from time to time by notification cost of in the Gazette.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing and unless and until the Governor shall otherwise iletermine there shall be
(a) a naval unit to be known as the Hong Kong Naval Force and the allicer for the time being discharging the duties of the Commodore, Hong Kong, shall be the appropriate Service Commander thereof;
(b) a military unit to be known as the Hong Kong Regiment and the officer for the time being discharging the duties of the General or other Officer Commanding, Land Forces, Hoog Kong, shall be the appropriate Service Cowinander thereof;
(c) an air force unit to be known as the Hong Kong Air Force and the officer for the time being discharging the duties of the Air Officer Comminuding, Royal Air Force, Hong Kong, shall be the appropriate Service Commander thereof;
(d) on auxiliary force to be known as the Hong Kong Auxiliary Force and the officer for the time being discharging the flutics of the Gearral or other Officer Commanding. Lanil Forces, Hong Kong, or such other person as the Governor may by writing under his band appoint shäll be the appropriate Service Commander thereof;
(*) a women's volunteer force to be kuown as the Hong Kong Women's Volunteer Force and the appropriate Service Commander thereof shall be such person as the Governor may by writing under his hand appoint; and
(7) a force headquarters to be known as Force Headquarters which shall consist of the following sub-unita :-
(D) the Commandant and his Staff; (i) the Depot:
(iii) the Officer Cadet Cadre; and (iv) the Specialist Cadra.
Such sub-units shall be constituted in auch manner and by such personnel as the Governor muy by notification in the Gazette apocity. The Commandant shall be the appropriate Service Commander of Force Hendquarters.
6. The officers of the Force shall be selected on merit and Commissioned perectis of any nationality may hold a commission therein, office. Officers shall be commissioned by the Governor on the recommen- dation of the appropriate Service Commander and no such commission shall be deemed to be vacated by the death or retirement from office of the Governor by whom the commission was grouted,
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