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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 2, 1935.

(ii) Except as provided in the preceding sub-paragraph (i), commissioned service in the Royal Navy, the Regular. Army, or the Royal Air Force, or a Permanent Force of a. Dominion or Colony, during the period 4th August, 1914, and 31st December, 1921, provided that the officer was commissioned between 4th August, 1914, and 11th November, 1918, and subsequently obtained a Commission in an Auxiliary Force, shall reckon as single qualifying service; and half the time served on the active list in the ranks of the said Forces during the said period shall reckon as single qualifying service for the Decoration.

E. Nothing in these regulations shall permit any service to reckon more than two-fold as qualifying service for the Decora- tion.

F. Service requisite to qualify for the Decoration shall not necessarily be continuous.

G. Service on the Permanent Staff of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps by members of the Permanent Forces of the Empire, except such service as may be covered by sub-paragraph D above and, except as provided in sub-paragraphs A (ii) and (iv) above, service in any unit or auxiliary unit of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps involving a liability for service only and no liability for training in peace, shall not reckon as qualifying service for the Decoration.

H. In the case of recipients of the Volunteer Officers' Decoration, the Territorial Decoration, or the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration, no period of service in the Force in which they qualified for any of the said Decorations shall be reckoned as qualifying service for the Efficiency Decoration.

I. Subject to the provisions of the preceding sub-paragraph H, an officer already in possession of the Volunteer Officers' Decoration, the Territorial Decoration, or the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration, or any Long Service and Good Conduct or Efficiency Medal and Clasps, will be eligible to receive the Efficiency Decoration and to wear both, provided that he has completed the full periods of qualifying service for both awards and that no qualifying service towards one award is permitted to count towards the other.

J. Except as admissible under this paragraph 5, service in the ranks will not be deemed to be qualifying service.

6. An officer who has the requisite qualifying service must be recommended by the Commanding Officer of the unit in which he completes the period of service requisite to qualify for the Decoration.

7. Applications for the Decoration should be made in writing by the Commanding Officer of the Corps in Hong Kong in which the officer recommended for the Decoration is or was serving when he completed the period of qualifying service, and should be supported by a statement of the officer's service in Form A appended to these Regulations. Commanding Officers will forward their recommendations through the usual channel of correspondence to the Governor or Officer Administering the Government, accompanied in each case by a state- ment certifying that the officer recommended holds (or has held) a Commission in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, that he has completed the qualifying period of 20 years' meritorious service, that he is an efficient and thoroughly capable officer of proved capacity, and that he is in every way deserving of the Efficiency Decoration.

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