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Clothing, equipment und weapons.

Application

(5) thirty instruction periods. shall be entitled to a bounty of two

hundred dollars.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, notwithstanding any order of the Commissioner to the contrary, the minimum number of instruc- Lion periods required by regulation 4 shall be deemed to be sixty.

9. Such clothing, equipment and weapons as the Commissioner may direct shall be issued to members, but shall be and shall remain the property of the Government and shall be produced or delivered up at any time as directed by the Commissioner.

10. Applications for enrolment in the Force by volunteers shall be for enrolment made in writing in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule and by volunteers. addressed to the Commissioner.

Second

Schedule.

Resignation

of volunt

teers, etc.

Resignation of conscript

members. (24 of 1991).

Retirement.

Recovery of the cost of

II. (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3), a volunteer may resign from the Force by giving to the Commissioner not less than one month's notice in writing of his intention to resign.

(2) If, at the time any such notice of intention to resign expires, the volunteer by whom such notice was given is on active service, he shall, notwithstanding the expiration of such notice, continue to serve until the order by which he was called out for active service is cancelled, and any volunteer who fails so to continue to serve shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months.

(3) Save with the perroission of the Commissioner, no volunteer may resign from the Force until he has completed one year's service from the day on which he was enrolled therein, and any volunteer who purports to resign from the Force without such permission within one year from such day shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars.

12. The resignation of a member, other than a volunteer, shall be subject to the provisions of the Compulsory Service Ordinance. 1951.

13. Every member shall be retired on reaching the age of fifty years!

Provided that the Commissioner may, on the application of any member. extend his membership for periods not exceeding two years at a time until such member reaches the age of sixty years.

14. If any volunteer ceases to be a member by resignation or dismissal. otherwise than under the provisions of regulation 15, within certain cases. twelve months after enrolment, he shall, if so required by the Com-

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missioner, in addition to delivering up any clothing issued to him for the purpose of his service in the Force. pay to the Commissioner the cost price to Government of such clothing at the date of issue, and such price shall be recoverable by the Commissioner upon complaint before a magistrate,

15. Any member who sustains any injury or contracts any illness Medical in the course of and arising out of the discharge of duty or which is treatment. directly attributable to the discharge of such duty shall be entitled-

(a) to medical treatment, including admission to hospital, in the manner prescribed by the General Orders of the Government for members of the Police Force of equivalent rank; and

(5) to receive pay and allowances at the rates prescribed by

regulation 6 in respect of training until such tinte as-

(1) a Government medical officer certifies that he has re- covered from such injury or illness; or

(i) he is awarded a pension in respect of such injury or illness under the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force (Pensions) Regulations, 1959.

16. Whenever any member is certified, by a modical board Tnvaliding. appointed by the Governor, unft for further service on account of ill health, the Commissioner shall inform such member in writing that he has been invalided out of the Force and he shall thereupon cease to be a member.

17. It shall be lawful for the Commissioner upon report made by Rewards for the Commandant to grant rewards to any member who may distinguish extraordinary himself by extraordinary diligence, zcal or exertion in the execution of his duties.

Constable.

Corporal.

Sergeant.

Sub-Inspector.

Inspector.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Private.

Corporal,

Sergeant.

Assistant Superintendent of Police.

Superintendent of Police.

Senior Superintendent of Police.

Assistant Commissioner of Police,

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Second Lieutenant.

Licutenant.

Captain.

Major.

Lieutenant Colonel.

Brigadier.

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service.