1949-HKRS29-8-16_Part01 — Page 32

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HONG KONG

No. 7 or 1940.

I assent,

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17th March, 1949,

An Ordinance to amend the Hong Kong Defence Force Ordinance,

1948.

[18th March, 1949.]

Re it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof;

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Defence short Tide. Force (Amendment) Ordinance, 1949, and shall be read as one with the Hong Kong Defence Force Ordinance, 1948, hereinafter Ordinance referred to as the principal Ordinance.

No. 62 of 1948,

2. Section 13 of the principal Ordinance is hereby repealed Repeal and and replaced na followa

replacement of section 1

*13. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations of the respecting the constitution, general government, discipline and principal training of the Force as a whole and in particular respecting- Ordinance.

(a) conditions of efficiency;

(b) appointment, promotion and rank of officers;

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(c) generally for the better carrying out of the

provisions of this Ordinance.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section

(1) hereof a Service Commander may, with the approval of the Governor and for the purposes aforesaid, make regulations for the unit of which he is the Service Commander in so far as they are not inconsistent with the regulations made under sub-section (1) hereof."