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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 15, 1926.

Amendment

(b) Sub-section (1) is also amended by the inser- tion of the words or in case it may be desir- able to take precautions against the possibility of serious local disturbance," between the word disturbance" and the word "the" in the third line thereof.

(c) The following sub-section is added at the end

thereof :-

(6) In any proceedings whatsoever the production of a copy of a number of the Gazette, purporting to be printed by the Government printers, and contain- ing what purports to be a proclamation by the Governor under sub-section (1), shall for all purposes whatsoever bo conclusive proof that the said proclama- tion was issued and was lawfully issued, and that the volunteer corps, or the portion of the volunteer corps, referred to in the said proclamation, was duly called out for actual military service on the date which purports to be the date of the said number of the Gazette.

4. Section 13 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is of Ordinance repealed and the following section is substituted there-

No. 2 of

1920, s. 13,

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 2 of 1920, s. 16.

for :- Pay and allowances or actual military service and

in camp.

13. All officers and volunteers, when call- ed out on actual military service, and when undergoing training in camp, shall be en- titled to such pay and allowances, if any, as may be prescribed by the Governor in Council, provided that no officer or volunteer shall be entitled to any pay or allowances for more than seven days in any one year in respect of attendance in camp.

5. Section 16 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is re-numbered as sub-section (1) of section 16 and the following sub-sections are added at the end thereof :-

(2) Without prejudice to anything contained in sub-section (1), every officer and volunteer who reports in person to undergo training in camp, other than training together with some part of His Majesty's regular forces, shall, until he is permitted to leave the camp, be subject, within the Colony, to the same control, discipline and punishments as are provided in the Army Act in the case of members of His Majesty's regular forces, with the following modifications only:-

(a) that no officer or volunteer shall for any offence except for the offence of murder be subject to the penalty of death; and

(b) that no sentence of a court martial for the trial of an officer or volunteer shall be carried into execution unless con- firmed by the Governor.

(3) Disciplinary measures may be imposed, court martial proceedings may be commenced and carried on, and punishments may be im- posed, in respect of acts or omissions of any officer or volunteer while undergoing training in camp, even though the officer or volunteer in question may have been permitted to leave the camp, and even though the camp may have been broken up, and even though the officer or volunteer in question may have been released from arrest or custody under the provisions of paragraph (4) of sub-section (1).

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 15th day of October, 1926.

S. B. B. McELDEKRY,

Clerk of Councils.

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