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1939, and 7th April, 1949, occurring in any calendar year reckoned from the 1st January will be allowed to count as the equivalent of efficient service for that year.

(ii) A warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or man who was serving in the ranks of the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps of the Hong Kong Volunteer Reserve or any other Authorized Auxiliary Force of the Commonwealth including any reserve associated therewith on 4th August, 1914, and who, before 11th November, 1918, served or accepted an obligation to serve on military service beyond the borders of the Force of which he was a member will renkon as double his embodied service on the active list, whether commissioned or in the ranks, rendered between the dates of embodiment and of disembodiment of the Force in which he was serving, whether such service was in the Royal Navy, Regular Army, Royal Air Force, Special Reserve, Territorial Force or Dominion or Colonial Forces.

(iii) Except as provided in sub-paragraph (ii), commissioned service in the case of those men who were commissioned after service in the ranks of an Authorized Auxiliary Force of the Commonwealth during the period of embodiment of the Force consequent upon the outbreak of war on 4th August, 1914, and who, having relin- quished their commissions, re-enrolled in the ranks of an Authorized Auxiliary Force of the Commonwealth prior to 1st January, 1923, shall count as single qualifying service for the Medal or Clasps.

(iv) Any period during which a warrant officer, non- commissioned officer or man of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps was relegated to unemploy- ment between the 2nd September, 1939, and the 7th April, 1949, otherwise than at his own request, or for redundancy or inefficiency, will count as single qualifying service.

(v) Except as provided in sub-paragraph (ii), service in the ranks in the Royal Navy, the Regular Army, the Royal Air Force or a permanent Force of a Dominion, Colony

or Territory under Her Majesty's protection during the period from 4th August, 1914, 10 31st December, 1921, and/or from 2nd September, 1939, to 1st Novem- ber, 1947 (inclusive) shall count as single qualifying service for the Medal or Clasps.

(vi) No service shall count more than double qualifying

servire.

C. Continuity of Service.

Service qualifying for the Medal and Clasps must be con- tinuous except-

(i) during the period from 4th August, 1914, to 31st December, 1921, and/or from 2nd September, 1939, to 1st November, 1947 (inclusive).

(ii) that service in different Auxiliary Military Forces not of the same territory of the Commonwealth shall be deemed to be continuous if any break in service occur- ring between service in one such force and another does not exceed 12 months;

(iii) that where a warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or man who, having been discharged from the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Curps or from any Approved Auxiliary Force of the Commonwealth during the war commencing on 3rd September, 1939, by reason of wounds or illness contracted on service, subsequently during the Corps period of embodiment voluntarily re-enlisted into the Corps after recovery, the period between such discharge and re-enlistment shall not be reckoned as breaking continuity of service.

(iv) that except as provided in sub-paragraph (ii) service in the aforesaid forces of Hong Kong shall be deemed to be continuous if any break in service is not due to the individual's own request ar to his own fault and does not exceed 12 months;

(v) that the following periods, although inadmissible as qualifying service (save in the circumstances berein- before described) will not be reckoned as breaking continuity of service-