THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 26, 1933.
ments, being public property or the property of the corps, which he has been ordered to deliver up either temporarily or permanently, he shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
tions and
22. If any person belonging or having belonged to the Recovery of corps refuses or neglects to pay anything subscribed or under subscrip taken to be paid by him towards any of the funds or expenses fines. of the corps or due under the rules of the corps and actually payable by him, or to pay any fine incurred by him under the rules of the corps, such money or fine shall (without pre- judice to any other remedy) be recoverable from him, with costs, at any time within eighteen months after the same becomes due and payable in manner hereinafter mentioned and, when recovered, shall be applied as part of the general fund of the corps.
PART V.
MISCELLANEOUS.
remedies.
23. Any money, pecuniary penalty, or fine recoverable Summary under this Ordinance may be recovered in a summary way before a magistrate.
24. The Commandant may appear before a magistrate by Appearance any member of the corps authorised by him in writing under before
his hand.
magistrate of Com- mandant.
25. The provisions of any Ordinance relating to the Storage of storage of gunpowder or explosives shall not apply to gun gunpowder, powder or explosives belonging to the corps but such gun- powder and explosives shall only be stored in such places and subject to such regulations as may be approved by the Governor.
26. It shall be lawful for the Treasurer to pay to the Payment of Commandant for the purposes of the corps such sum in each public year as may be authorised by the Governor in Council out of corps. moneys voted by the Legislative Council.
money for
27. (1) Subject to the provisions of any regulation Oath of made under this Ordinance relating to members of auxiliary allegiance. units, every officer of the corps and volunteer shall, on his admission to the corps or as soon afterwards as may be, take the oath or make the declaration appropriate to his case in the Second Schedule to be administered by a justice of the peace, Second or by an officer of the corps who has taken such oath or made Schedule. such declaration, or by the Adjutant, or by any officer of His Majesty's regular forces attached to the corps.
(2) Every person who was a member of the Hong Kong Defence Corps on the 23rd day of December, 1919, shall be exempt from the provisions of this section, but such exemption shall not relieve any such person from any duty or liability to which he would have been subject if he had taken the oath or declaration of allegiance prescribed by sub-section (1).
corps.
28. Every person who obstructs or resists any member Obstructing of the corps in the discharge of his duty shall upon suminary member of conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
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