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Regulations 6. 7. 19, 20 and 21 of the principal regulations, which deal with grading, pay and wilowances, instruction allowances and bounly and rations, are revoked.

Further provision is made with respect to call out for active service. Unit Controllers are empowered to make a limited call out of the whole or part of their unit, with the prior approval of the Governor (regulation 9). Special provision is made for the standing down of members and for their recall, and a similar provision is inserted in the existing regulation 18 (regulation 8). All references to "instruction" and "instruction periods" are deleted from the principal regulations as these terms are not used in the Auxiliary Forces Pay and Allowances Ordinance 1967, The expression "training periods" has been substituted for the expression "instruction periods" wherever the latter appears in the principal regulations.

(Secretarist CR 168/65)

ESSENTIAL SERVICES CORPS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 197).

ESSENTIAL SERVICES (AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE) CORPS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1967.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 7 of the Essential Services Corps Ordinance, the Governor has made the following regulations-

1. These regulations may be cited as the Essential Services (Auxiliary Fire Service) Corps (Amendment) Regulations 1967, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of April 1967.

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended- (a) in paragraph (c), by~

2.

(0) deleting "actual service" and substituting therefor the following-

"active service"; and

(ii) deleting "or instruction"; and

(b) in paragraph (c), by deleting "instruction" wherever it

occurs and substituting therefor the following-

"training".

3. The principal regulations are amended by adding the following new regulation after regulation 3–

"Limited

Director of Fire Bervices.

4. For the purpose of assisting the Fire Services call out by Department, the Director of Fire Services may, on the occasion of a fire or other calamity, by departmental order call out the Auxiliary Fire Service Unit or any part or member thereof for active service, and such service shall continue for the period specified in that order unless a further departmental order is made by the Director of Fire Services cancelling the first- mentioned order.”.

21st March 1967.

By Command,

07. Shing Lines

Colonial Secretary.

Citation and commencement.

Amendment of regulation 3.

(CAP. 197, AS, HER)

Addition of regulation 4.