305525-1941-Hong-Kong-Auxiliary-Medical-Corps-Instructions-1941 — Page 2

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941.

tion.

3. The Corps shall consist of a Controller and such Constitu- members of the Emergency Medical Service, the Auxiliary Nursing Service, the St. John Ambulance Brigade, and the Dispersal Area Service, as may from time to time be enrolled or appointed for service therein or who may be required to serve therein under instructions given by the Governor or under the provisions of any enactment.

tion.

4. The Controller, subject to the directions of the Administra- Governor and the provisions of these Instructions, shall be charged with the administration and control of the Corps.

of service.

5. The Controller may enrol in the Corps for a period Enrolment not exceeding the period of the present emergency such and length persons as qualify for enrolment in accordance with the regulations for the time being in force and offer their services, and every person so enrolled shall become a member of the Corps and be subject to the provisions of these Instructions provided that he signs the following declaration ---

"I have read or had explained to me the Hong Kong Auxiliary Medical Corps Instructions, 1941, and I agree to carry out such duties, general or particular, as may be allotted to me by duly authorized officers of the Corps and to abide by the said Instructions.'

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6. (a) The Deputy Controller and other officers shall Appointment be appointed by the Controller and they may be dismissed of Deputy only by the Controller.

(b) All subordinate officers and other members may be appointed, promoted, reduced or dismissed by the Deputy Controller.

(e) Any of the powers conferred on the Deputy Con- troller by these' Instructions may be exercised by any officer deputed by the Controller.

Controller, officers, etc.

7. Every member of the Corps shall be supplied with Corps to be such uniform and equipment, if any, as may, with the consent supplied of the Governor, he prescribed by the Controller.

with equipment.

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

equipment to remain the property

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

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

Government.

not to be

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

10. (a) In case of apprehended or actual tumult or Calling out riot or attack on the Colony, the Governor, by proclamation, for actual may call out for actual service all or any members of the Corps.

service.

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