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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 2, 1935.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 579.

Regulations as to grant, forfeiture, restoration and other matters concerning The Efficiency Medal in regard to the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps issued by the Officer Administering the Government with the approval of His Majesty the King, pursuant to the Royal Warrant dated the 23rd September, 1930, published as Notification No. 460 in the Gazette of the 17th July, 1931.

2nd August, 1935.

D. W. TRATMAN,

Colonial Secretary.

Hong Kong.

The Efficiency Medal.

1. The Efficiency Medal and Clasps are awarded as a reward for long and efficient service to warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Authorized Auxiliary Forces of the Empire* (and their Reserves). The Medal has been instituted by His Majesty to replace the Volunteer Long Service Medal, the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, the Militia Long Service Medal, the Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and the Territorial Efficiency Medalt; the award of the Medal and Clasps is governed by the Roval Warrant dated 23rd September, 1930.

2. Warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps who on or after 23rd September, 1930, have completed 12 years' qualifying service as hereinafter A Clasp to be defined shall be eligible for the award of the Medal. worn on the ribbon of the Medal will be awarded to those who, having been awarded the Medal, complete a total of 18 years' qualifying service, and a further Clasp on completing 24 years' qualifying service.

3. The subsidiary title of the Medal awarded to warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who complete the requisite period of qualifying service while serving in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps shall be "Hong Kong", and the word "Hong Kong" shall be inscribed on the Bar mount of the Medal so awarded.

4. Service as described below shall be regarded as qualifying service, provided that none of it has been previously counted as qualifying service for the grant of any other Long Service, Good Conduct, or Efficiency Medal or Clasp-

'A. Service in the ranks on the active list of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, such service having been efficient in accordance with the regulations governing service in that Force.

*An Authorized Auxiliary Force of the Empire means, for the purpose of the Efficiency Medal, an auxiliary force which is recruited by separate enlistment not forming part of an engagement for a permanent Regular Force, and in which there is a liability for training in peace, as for example, the Territorial Army, Supplementary Reserve, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, or Auxiliary Air Force in Great Britain, or similar forces in the Dominions, Colonies, and territories under His Majesty's protection in which there are similar obligations for training in peace; it does not include such forces as the Army Reserve, Royal Fleet Reserve, or the Royal Air Force Reserve, service in which normally follows from enlistment in Regular Forces.

+The displaced Medals can however, still be granted in cases where the necessary qualifying service was completed before the 23rd September, 1930.