Power to recept racepted persons,
Applications of Army Act.
44 and 45 Vie.. c. 58,
Duration of service.
Power to
tions.
5.--(.) It shall be lawful for the Governor to accept for the Hongkong Defence Corps any male British subject who would otherwise be exempt from military service under this Ordinance.
(2.) If any such person is so accepted by the Governor he shall upon taking the oath or declaration of alle- giance and signing the enrolment form as provided in The First Schedule hereto become a member of the Hong- kong Defence Corps.
6.1.) The provisions of the Army Act shall apply to all members of the Hongkong Defence Corps subject to any regulations which may be made by the Governor in Council under this Ordinance: provided that no sen- tenge of a court-martial upon a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps shall be carried into execution unless confirmed by the Governor.
(2.) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council at auy time to suspend the operation of any regulations so made under this Ordinance and thereupon until the Governor in Council shall revoke the said order of suspension the provisions of the Army Act shall apply to all the members of the Hongkong Defence Corps without the modifications formerly effected by the regulations so suspended.
7. (1) Every person who becomes a member of the
lin Hongkong Defence Corps, whether by service
of an order calling him up for military service or by voluntary enlistment or by virine of the provisions of section 10 of this Ordinance, shall continue to be a nem- ber of the Hongkong Defence Corps until he is discharged or dismissed or exempted.
(2) Every member of the Hongkong Defence Corps who attains the age of fifty-live years while being a member of the said Corps shall upon attaining that age be discharged unless he elects to continue to be sub- ject to military service.
(3.) If any such member so elects he shall take the path or declaration of allegiance and sign the enrolment form as provided by this Ordinance and upon his taking the said oath or declaration and signing the said form he shall be deemed to have been a member of the Hong- kong Defence Corps as from the expiration of his liability to nilitary service under the provisions of section 2 of this Ordinance and shail continue to be a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps until he is discharged or dis- missed or exempted.
8. 1. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council make regula to make regulations for the constitution, management, Training, service, pay, and discipline of the Hongkong Defence Corps, and any other regulations whatsoever which may be desirable in connection therewith.
Pay and
(2.) Subject to the exercise of the above powers the regulations contained in the Second Schedule liereto sha!l be in force from the conumencement of this Ordinance and shall be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance.
(3) No amendment of the First Appendix to the Second Schedule shall come into force until it has been approved by the Legislative Council.
9. Every member of the Hongkong Defence Corps allowaners. when performing any actual military duty shall be entitled to pay and allowances at the same rates and subject to the same conditions as members of His Majesty's regular forces ao far as such rates and conditions may by the Governor in Concil be deemed applicable to the Hong- kong Defence Corps,
Members of
IL.K.V.R.
to re members of
The Hong-
10. (1) Every person who is liable to military service the II.K.VF'. nuder this Ordinance and who imediately before the aud
commencement of this Ordinance was a member, of any rank, of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps or of the Hong- kong Volunteer Reserve shall upon such commencement become a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps and shall therein have the same rank as he had in the kow Holence Hongkong Volunteer l'orps or in the Hongkong Volun Corpora
teer Reserve inunediately before such commencement: provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be construed as giving any such person any right what- soever to be continued in that rink.
Lo have
their former
rank.
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Funds of the
(2.) All sums which immediately before the com- Balance of mencement of this Ordinance wore standing to the the Corps credit of the Corps Funds of the Hongkong Volunteers HK.V.. and the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve shall forthwith be and paid to the Colonial Treasurer to be used by the H.K.V.R. Colonial Government for the benefit of the Hongkong Defence Corps as the Governor in Council may direct.
11. This Ordinance shall continue in force only until Duration of the expiration of a period of six months from the con- Ordinance. clusion of the present war.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this $1st day of Angust, 1917.
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councila,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 31st
day of August, 1917.
To...
CLAED SEVERN,
Costumiut Secretary
FIRST SCHEDULE.
FORM No. 4.
ORDER CALLING UP.
Military Service Ordinance, 1917.
Take notice that His Excellency the Governor in Council has othered that you be called up for military service under the Military Service Ordinance, 1917, nud
you are hereby so called up accordingly.
Thated the..
day of...
Clerk of Councils.
Form No. 2.
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
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I. ., do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George the Fifth, His Heirs and Sucressons according to law, and that I will faithfully serve in the Hongkong Defence Corps according to the conditions of my ser- vice.
Sa help me God.
FORM No. 3.
[Signature,
DECLARATION OF ALLEGIANCE. ·
I, .1.B., do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare that
I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George the Fifth, His Heirs and Successors according to law, and that I will faithfully serve in the Hongkong Defence Corps according to the conditions of my service.
(Signature)
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