51356-1917-Ordinance-passed-and-assented-to--Military-Service-No-19-of-1917 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 31, 1917.

5.--(I.) It shall be lawful for the Governor to accept Power to for the Hongkong Defence Corps any male British subject accept who would otherwise be exempt from military service excepted under this Ordinance.

(2.) If any such person is so accepted by the Governor he shall upon taking the oath or declaration of alle- giance and signing the onrolment form as provided in the First Schedule hereto become a member of the Hong- kong Defence Corps.

persons,

6.--(1.) The provisions of the Army Act shall apply Application to all members of the Hongkong Defence Corps subject of Army Act, to any regulations which may be made by the Governor 44 and 45 in Council under this Ordinance: provided that no sen- Vic., e, 58, tence of a court-martial upon a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps shall be carried into execution muless confirmed by the Governor.

(2.) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council at any time to suspend the operation of any regulations so made under this Ordinance and thereupon until the Governor in Council shall revoke the said order of suspension the provisions of the Army Act shall apply to all the members of the Hongkong Defence Corps without the modifications formerly effected by the regulations so suspended.

7.-(1.) Every person who becomes a member of the Duration of Hongkong Defence Corps, whether by service upon him service. of an order calling him up for military service or by voluntary enlistment or by virtue of the provisions of section 10 of this Ordinance, shall continue to be a mem- ber of the Hongkong Defence Corps until he is discharged or dismissed or exempted.

(2.) Every member of the Hongkong' Defence Corps who attains the age of fifty-five years while being a member of the said Corps shall upon attaining that age be discharged unless he elects to continue to be sub- ject to military service.

(3.) If any such member so elects he shall take the oath or declaration of allegiance and sign the enrolment form as provided by this Ordinance and upon his taking the said oath or declaration and signing the said form he shall be deemed to have been a member of the Hong- kong Defence Corps as from the expiration of his liability to military service under the provisions of section 2 of this Ordinance and shall continue to be a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps nutil he is discharged or dis- missed or exempted.

8.(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Cormeil Power to to make regulations for the constitution, management, make regula- training service, pay, and discipline of the Hongkong tions. Defence Corps, and any other regulations whatsoever which may be desirable in connection therewith.

(2.) Subject to the exercise of the above powers the regulations contained in the Second Schedule hereto shall be in force from the commencement of this Ordinance and shall be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance.

(3.) No amendment of the First Appendix to the Second Schedule shall come into force until it has been approved by the Legislative Council.

9. Every member of the Hongkong Defence Corps Pay and when performing any actual military duty shall be entitled allowances, to pay and allowances at the same rates and subject to the same conditions as members of His Majesty's regular forces so far as such rates and conditions may by the Governor in Council be deemed applicable to the Hong- kong Defence Corps.

10.--(1.) Every person who is liable to military service Members of under this Ordinance and who immediately before the the H.K.V.C. commencement of this Ordinance was a member, of any and rank, of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps or of the Hong- to become H.K.V.R. kong Volunteer Reserve shall upon such commencement members of become a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps and the Hong- shall therein have the same rank as he had in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps or in the Hongkong Volun- kong Defence teer Reserve immediately before such commencement: Corps and provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be their former construed as giving any such person any right what rank, soever to be continued in that rank.

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