305522-1941-Hong-Kong-Auxiliary-Conservancy-Corps-Instructions-1941 — Page 2

1400

Appoint-

ment, promotion and

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941.

dismissal of

officers and other

members.

Corps to

be supplied with equipment.

Corps equipment

to remain

the property

of the

6. (a) The Chairman shall be appointed by the Governor.

(b) The officers shall be appointed by the Governor and may be dismissed only by the Governor.

(c) Other members may be appointed, promoted, reduced or dismissed by the Chairman.

(d) Any of the powers conferred on the Chairman by these Instructions may be exercised by any officers deputed by the Chairman.

7. Every member of the Corps shall be supplied with such uniform, if any, and equipment as may be prescribed by the Government.

8.-(a) All Corps equipment shall be and remain the property of the Government.

(b) All Corps equipment shall, when required by the Government. Chairman, be produced or delivered up as directed by him.

Corps equipment not to be wrongfully disposed of.

Calling out for actual service.

Pay when called out.

Powers

of the

Chairman.

(c) On the death, resignation or discharge of any member of the Corps the person or persons into whose hands the Corps equipment may come shall forthwith return the same to the Chairman.

9. If any member of the Corps wilfully makes away with, pawns, or wilfully damages, destroys or negligently loses or unlawfully refuses or neglects to produce or deliver up, any Corps equipment issued to him the value thereof shall be recoverable from him summarily before a magistrate by the Chairman or his representative.

10.-(a) In case of apprehended or actual tumult or riot or attack on the Colony the Governor by order published in the Gazette may call out for actual service all or any members of the Corps.

(b) Every member so called out shall attend such places and perform such duties as the Chairman or his officers may direct.

(c) The period of such actual service shall end only by order of the Governor.

11. Every member of the Corps when called out on service shall be entitled to such pay and allowances as may from time to time be prescribed.

12. It shall be lawful for the Chairman subject to the approval of the Governor-

(a) to make departmental orders as he may think fit for the carrying out of the routine of the Corps and for regulating the internal control thereof;

(b) to make such orders as he may deem necessary to make the Corps efficient and so to maintain it and to see that such orders are duly obeyed;

(c) to take full charge of the Corps when it is called out for actual service and to issue all necessary orders for the duties it may be called upon to perform and to take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that such duties are duly executed;