305855-1941-Hong-Kong-Auxiliary-Quartering-Corps-Instructions-1941 — Page 2

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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 17, 1941.

Appoint-

ment of Deputy Command-

ant, officers,

etc.

Corps to be supplied with

equipment.

Corps equipment

to remain

the property of the

6. (a) The Deputy Commandant and other officers shall be appointed by the Commandant and may be dismissed only by the Commandant.

(b) All other members may be appointed, promoted, reduced or dismissed by the Deputy Commandant.

(c) Any of the powers conferred on the Deputy Com- mandant by these Instructions may be exercised by any officer deputed by the Commandant.

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

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

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

Corps equipment not to be wrongfully disposed of.

Calling out for actual service.

Pay when called out.

Powers of Deputy Command- ant.

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 Commandant.

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 Commandant or his representative.

10. (a) In case of apprehended or actual tumult or riot or attack on the Colony, the Governor, by order, 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 Commandant or Deputy Commandant 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 Deputy Commandant subject to the approval of the Commandant—

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

(b) to issue 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 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.