these regulations shall be awarded a Clasp to be attached to the ribbon by which the Medal is suspended and for a further period of 6 years qualifying service under similar conditions an additional
G Clasp shall be awarded.
3. The subsidiary title of the Medal awarded to warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men who complete the requisite period of qualifying service while serving in the aforesaid Force of Hong Kong shall be "Hong Kong", and the words "Hong Kong" shall be inscribed on the bar brooch of the Medal so awarded.
4.
Service as described below if voluntary shall be regarded as qualifying service, provided that none of it has been previously counted as qualifying service for the grant of any other Long Service, Good Conduct or Efficiency Medal or Clasp-
A. Other tank and cadel service.
(1) Service in the ranks on the active list of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force, the Hong Kong Defence Force or the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps such service having been efficient in accordance with the regulations governing service in such Force or Corps. (ii) Service in the ranks of any Reserve or Auxiliary unit of the aforesaid Force or Corps such as may have been rendered while those units performed annual training equivalent to that normally carried out by the parent Force or Corps, provided that the individual concerned also performed such training and that efficiency is determined by the standard required for the parent Force or Corps.
(i) Service in the ranks of Her Majesty's other Authorized Auxiliary Military Forces of the Commonwealth includ- ing their Reserves and associated Officers' Training or Cadet Corps, such service in every case having been qualifying service in accordance with the regulations under the Royal Warrant of the 23rd September, 1930, and applicable to the Force in which ar with whose Reserve or associated Officers' Training or Cadet Corps the service was rendered.
(iv) Service in the ranks or as a cadet in a duly recognized. and constitured Officers' Training or Cadet Corps in any of Her Majesty's Dominions, Colonies or territories under Her Majesty's protection, such Service being qualifying service in accordance with the regulations under the Royal Warrant of the 23rd September, 1930, applicable to the Force with whose associated Officers' Training or Cadet Corps the service was rendered.
(v) Service in the ranks of any Force or Corps mentioned in sub-paragraph (0), (it) or (iii) during their em- bodiment, other than service covered by those sub- paragraphs, the exact period only of such embodiment being counted: Provided always both as regards this service and that referred to in sub-paragraph (1), (ii) or (ii) that a period of 2 months embodied service in any calendar year reckoned from 1st January to 31st December will be allowed to count as the equivalent of efficient service for that year.
(vi) Service in the ranks on the permanent staff of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force, the Hong Kong Defence Force or the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps by members of the Permanent Forces of the Commonwealth, except such service as is covered by sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph B; service in any unit. of any such Force or Corps involving a liability for service only and no liability for annual training in peace shall not reckon as qualifying service.
B. War Service.
(3) A warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or ពដ
who was serving in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps on the 2nd September, 1939, and who was embodied or called out for service on or after that date will reckon as double his service between the date on which he was embodied or called out and thu: date on which he was released from embodiment. (No service subsequent to the 7th April, 1949, may count as double qualifying service). A period of 2 months or more efficient embodied service between 2nd September,
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