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Section 9 is founded on section 13 of the Volunteer

Ordinance, 1893.

The amount of pay, and the conditions under which pay is to be drawn, are placed in the discretion of the Governor in Council, who may also, under section 8, make regulations on the subject.

Sub-section (1) of section 10 transfers bodily all members of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps and of the Hongkong Volunteer Reserves into the Hongkong Defence Corps, with the same ranks which they held in those organisations. Subsection (2) of this section enables the Corps Funds of those two bodies to be utilised for the new Corps.

Section 11 limits the duration of the Ordinance to the. present war and a period of six months after its conclusion. It was not thought necessary to define the meaning of the term "conclusion of the present war.'

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It was thought better not to repeal the Volunteer Ordi-

nance, 1893, and the Volunteer Reserve Ordinance, 1910, as

position which will obtain at the conclusion of the war

is so uncertain.

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In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty

and on His behalf.

Attorney General,

8th September, 1917.

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