CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928 — Page 67

HONG KONG.

No. 27 of 1927.

I assent.

L.S.

C. CLEMENTI, Governor.

23rd December, 1927.

An Ordinance to amend further the Volunteer

Ordinance, 1920.

[23rd December, 1927.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Volunteer Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1927.

2. The term "Commandant" shall be substituted Substitution for the term "administrative commandant", wherever that term occurs in the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, or the regulations made thereunder.

3. Section 3 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is amended by the insertion of the following sub-section at the end thereof :---

(3) Any such corps may include any number of auxiliary units, the members of which shall be volunteers, or officers as the case may be, for all the purposes of this Ordinance.

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of "Com- mandant for "adminis- trative com- mandant."

Amendment of Ordinance No. 2 of 1920,

s. 3.

4. Section 5 (3) of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, Amendment

is amended as follows:-

(a) The words "other than a member of an auxiliary unit," are inserted immediately after the word "volunteer" in the second line thereof.

(b) The words "at least" are inserted imme- diately before the words "three years" in the third line thereof.

(c) The following provison is added at the end

thereof:

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"Provided also that nothing in this sub- "section shall relieve any volunteer from the obligation to comply with the provi- "sions of sub-section (1) if he wishes to

'quit the corps".

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of Ordinance No. 2 of 1920, s. 5 (3).

5. Section 16 (1) of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, Amendment

is amended as follows:-

of Ordinance No. 2 of 1920,

(a) Paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) are re- s. 16 (1),

numbered as paragraphs (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) respectively.

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