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Uniform,
Second Appendix.
Third Appendix.
Officers outfit
allowance.
after the fifteenth day unless the course is one of long duration, such as a Machine Gun Course, in which case the limit may be extended to the actual duration of the course in any case where the General Officer Commanding the Troops sees fit to direct an extension.
Equipment.
10.-(1) Officers will provide and maintain their own uniform and appointments according to the scale laid down in the Second Appendix.
(2) Other ranks will be provided with uniform in accordance with the scale laid down in the Third Appendix.
(3) In no circumstances may articles of uniform be worn with plain clothes.
11.-(1) An allowance towards the cost of his outfit of not more than three hundred dollars will be paid to each officer on his first appointment as an officer in the corps: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to those officers who were officers of the Hong Kong Defence Corps immediately before the repeal of the Military Service Ordinance, 1917, unless the General Officer Commanding the Troops shall otherwise direct. Provided further that the allowance shall be limited to outfit purchased within six months of the officer's first appointment and in respect of which an account, supported by vouchers approved by the Commandant, is promptly submitted by the officer to the Commandant. Provided further that every officer to whom any such allowance is paid shall sign an undertaking to hand back to the corps in serviceable condition, fair wear and tear excepted, his belt, Sam Browne complete with braces, frog, ammunition pouch and pistol case, his sword, infantry pattern with brown leather scabbard and knot, and his pistol and lanyard, in the event of his ceasing to serve as an officer in the corps within three years of his first appoint- ment as such officer, or to refund to the corps the full value, to be determined by the Commandant, of any of the said articles not so returned.
(2) Should an officer fail to become proficient within twelve months from appointment, he shall at the discretion of the Com- mandant be liable to refund all or part of the allowance made to him.
Stock-book
to be kept.
Order book to be kept.
Entries in stock-book.
Ordering
of stores.
Respon- sibility for
and care of stores.
Regimental Institute.
Stores.
12. A stock-book for stores issued on payment shall be kept showing the nature and value of each article and the member of the corps to whom it is issued.
13. For every receipt and issue of stores there shall be a voucher. An order book for all stores required shall be kept, and, on receipt of the stores, entry shall be made in the stock-book. The receipt vouchers shall consist of the counterfoils of the order book, or of invoices from the Crown Agents, or from firms or departments which supply stores. Issue vouchers shall consist of receipts signed by the members of the corps to whom the stores are issued on an issue book with pages numbered consecutively. The issue book shall be checked by the Commandant and each signature shall be authenticated by his initials.
14. In every case the folio of the stock-book shall be inserted on the voucher and the entries made on the day of issue.
15. All stores ordered from England must be obtained in the usual manner through the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
16. The Commandant, assisted by the quartermaster, is respon- sible to the Hong Kong Government for all stores, arms and equipment supplied by the Government for use by the Corps.
17. The Commandant inay, with the approval of the Governor,. make regulations for the management of the Regimental Institute.
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