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Page 1 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941.

Members leaving

the Corps within twelve months to pay the cost of their

uniform,

if any.

(a) the acceptance by the Chairman of his resignation by letter:

(b) dismissal by the Governor or the Chairman.

18. Every member of the Corps who, within twelve months from the date of his enrolment in the Corps, ceases to be a member of the Corps either by resignation or dismissal may be called upon to pay to the Chairman the cost of his uniform, if any. The cost of the uniform may be recovered in a summary way before a magistrate.

No. 1137.

INSTRUCTIONS MADE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR UNDER THE CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS REGULATIONS, 1941, PRESCRIBING THE PERIOD OF ENROLMENT AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF MEMBERS OF THE AUXILIARY MEDICAL CORPS.

Citation.

Interpreta- tion.

1. These Instructions may be cited as the Hong Kong Auxiliary Medical Corps Instructions, 1941.

2. In these Instructions-

(a) "Corps

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means the Auxiliary Medical Corps;

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(b) Controller means the officer who for the time being holds the office of Director of Medical Services;

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(c) "Deputy Controller means the officer who for the time being holds the office of Deputy Director of Medical Services;

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(d) officers means Senior Health Officer, Area Medical Officers and Medical Officers, Commandant and Assistant Commandant of Auxiliary Nursing Service, Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, District Officers, Divisional Surgeons and Corps Surgeons, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Chief Medical Transport Officer, Deputy Medical Transport Officer and Area Medical Transport Officers, Quartermaster, Matron- in-Chief, Medical Recruiting Officer, Commandants of Dis- persal Area Camps, and other officers of the Corps;

(e) subordinate officers means Matrons, Secretaries, Adjutant and Quartermaster of Auxiliary Nursing Service, Divisional Superintendents of St. John Ambulance Brigade, Post Communication Officers of St. John Ambulance Brigade, Medical Liaison Officers, Overseers and Assistant Overseers of Dispersal Area Camps;

("members means all persons who are enrolled or appointed for service or who may be required to serve in the Corps irrespective of rank;

(g) Corps equipment" includes all uniform clothing, accoutrements, badges, and other effects supplied by Govern- ment and issued to a member of the Corps;

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(h) the period of the present emergency" means the period ending with such date as the Governor may by order declare to be the date on which the emergency which was the occasion of the making of the Civil Defence Corps Regulations, 1941, came to an end.