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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 23, 1927.
Insertion of
new section 17A in
Ordinance
No. 2 of 1920.
(3) Disciplinary measures may be im- posed, court martial proceedings may be commenced and carried on, and punish- ments may be imposed, in respect of acts and omissions of any officer or volunteer while on actual military service, or while undergoing any such drill, exercise, train- ing or inspection, or doing any such voluntary duty, as is referred to in sub- section (1), even though such actual military service, drill, exercise, training, inspection, or duty, shall have come to an end, and though such officer or volunteer shall have been released from any arrest to which he may have been subjected.
8. The following section is inserted in the Volun- teer Ordinance, 1920, immediately after section 17 thereof :-
Attendance
17A. (1) It shall be lawful for the when ordered. Commandant of any volunteer corps to order any officer or volunteer of such corps to attend at any time at Volunteer Headquarters or at any other place within the Colony for the purposes of any court martial or court of inquiry, or for any other special purpose which may seem proper to the Commandant,
(2) Every officer or volunteer who with- out reasonable excuse fails to comply with any such order shall upon summary con- viction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
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Amendment 9. Section 20 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is No. 2 of 1920, repealed and the following section is substituted
of Ordinance
8. 20.
Amendment
therefor
Return of arms, etc.
20. If any officer or volunteer fails duly to deliver up in good order (fair wear and tear excepted) any arms, clothing or appointments which he is liable under this Ordinance to deliver up, or any arms, cloth- ing, or appointments, being public property or the property of the corps, which he has been ordered to deliver up either tempor- arily or permanently, shall upon cummary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
10. Section 26 (1) of the Volunteer Ordinance, No. 2 of 1920, 1920, is amended as follows:-
of Ordinance
s. 26 (1).
(a) The words "Subject to the provisions of any regulation made under this Ordinance relating to members of auxiliary units,' are inserted immediately before the word
Every" in the first line thereof.
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(b) The words ", or by the Adjutant, or by any officer of His Majesty's regular forces attached to the corps." are inserted at the end thereof.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 22nd day of December, 1927.
D. W. TRATMAN,..
Clark of Councils.
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