306101-1941-Hong-Kong-Auxiliary-Communications-Service-Instructions-1941 — Page 2

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 7, 1941.

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

(6) All other members may be appointed, promoted, re- duced or dismissed by a Deputy Director.

(c) Any of the powers conferred on Deputy Directors. by these Instructions may be exercised by any officer deputed by the Director.

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

Directors,

officers, etc.

Service to be supplied with equip-

ment.

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

equipment

to remain the property

(b) All Service equipment shall, when required by the of the Director, be produced or delivered up as directed by him.

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

Government.

not to be

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

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

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

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

for actual service.

called out.

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

12. It shall be lawful for a Deputy Director, subject to Powers of the approval of the Director-

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

(b) to issue such orders as he may deem necessary to make the Service efficient and so to maintain it, and to see that such orders are fully obeyed;

(c) to take full charge of that section of the Service to which he is appointed by the Director when it is called out for service and to issue the 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.

The powers of any Deputy Director shall be limited to that section of the Service to which he is appointed.

Deputy

Directors.

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