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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 26, 1933.
(b) that no sentence of a court martial for the trial of an officer of the corps or volunteer shall be carried into execution unless confirmed by the Governor.
(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to limit or derogate from the power given by section 177 of the said Act to the officer commanding His Majesty's forces with which the corps is serving of making general orders specifying such ex- ceptions or modifications as in the same section are referred to.
Provided nevertheless that such modifications shall not apply to officers of the corps and volunteers who being on active 44 & 45 Vict. service as defined by section 189 of the Army Act are outside
the limits of the Colony.
c. 58.
Attendance when ordered.
Rules for management
of property, etc., of corps.
Vesting of property of corps in the Commandant ex officio.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1910.
Return of arms etc.
(3) Disciplinary measures may be imposed, court martial proceedings may be commenced and carried on, and punish- ments may be imposed, in respect of acts and omissions of any officer of the corps or volunteer while on actual military service, or while undergoing any such drill, exercise, training 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 of the corps or volunteer shall have been released from any arrest or custody to which he may have been subjected.
18.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Commandant to order any officer of the corps or volunteer 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 in- quiry, or for any other special purpose which may seem proper to the Commandant.
(2) Every such officer or volunteer who without reason- able excuse fails to comply with any such order shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
PART IV.
RULES AND PROPERTY OF CORPS.
19. The members of the corps may make rules for the management of the property, finances, and civil affairs of the corps, but such rules shall not have effect unless and until they have been approved by the Governor and have been published in the Gazette, and upon publication in the Gazette the rules so approved shall be binding on all members of the corps.
20. All moneys subscribed by or to, or for the use of the corps and all effects belonging to the corps or lawfully used by it, not being the property of an individual member of the corps, and the exclusive right to sue for and recover current subscriptions, arrears of subscriptions, and other moneys due to the corps shall vest in the Commandant for the time being with power for him to sue, to make contracts and conveyances, and to do all other lawful things relating thereto, and the Commandant shall be deemed to be a public officer within the meaning of the Crown Suits Ordinance, 1910, and the service of the corps shall be deemed to be a public service within the meaning of that Ordinance.
21. If any officer of the corps 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 clothing, or appoint-
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