CO129-582-12 Compulsory Service Ordinance 1939 31-7-1939 - 27-9-1939 — Page 11

HONG KONG.

No. 32 OF 1939.

I assent.

L. S.

G. A. S. NORTHCOTE,

Governor.

28th July, 1939.

An Ordinance to make provision with respect to compulsory

service.

[28th July, 1939.]

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 Compulsory Short title. Service Ordinance, 1939.

2. (1) In this Ordinance-

Interpreta- tion.

"civil servant" means a British subject who is in the employment of the Government of the Colony and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Government;

"Dominion" means a "Dominion" within the meaning 22 Geo. 5, of the Statute of Westminster, 1931;

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"enrolment lists" means the lists referred to in section

"essential services" means such services as may for the time being, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, be essential to the life of the community;

"proper authority" means the person whom, for the purposes of sections 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10, the Governor may appoint;

"proper military authority" means the person whom, for the purposes of sections 8 and 11, the senior military officer for the time being in command of His Majesty's regular troops in the Colony may appoint;

"reserve" means the Hong Kong Defence Reserve. created by this Ordinance.

(2) A person residing in the Colony shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident therein unless he proves that he is residing there only for the purpose of attending a course of education or that the circumstances of his residence in the Colony are otherwise such as to show that he is residing there for a temporary purpose only.

c. 4.

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