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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 14, 1917.

The following sub-sections, numbered (2) and (3), were added to section 8:--

"(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.”

The following sections, numbered 9 and 10, were added to the Bill :-

9. Every member of the Hongkong Defence Corps when performing any actual Pay and

military duty shall be entitled to pay and allowances at the same rates allowances. 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 Hongkong Defence Corps.

to become

10.- (1.) Every person who is liable to military service under this Ordinance and Members of

who immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance was a the H.K.V.C. member, of any rank, of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps or of the Hong- and II.K.V.R. kong Volunteer Reserve shall upon such commencement become a members of member of the Hongkong Defence Corps and shall therein have the same the Hong- rank as he had in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps or in the Hongkong kong Defence Volunteer Reserve immediately before such commencement: provided that Corps and nothing in this sub-section shall be construed as giving any such person former rank. any right whatsoever to be continued in that rank.

to have their

(2.) All sums which immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance Balance of

were standing to the credit of the Corps Funds of the Hongkong Volun- the Corps teers and the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve shall forthwith be paid to the Funds of the Colonial Treasurer to be used by the Colonial Government for the benefit H.K.V.C. and of the Hongkong Defence Corps as the Governor in Council may direct."

H.K.V.R.

The old section 9 was deleted and the following section, numbered 11, was added to the Bill, the word "only" being inserted on the motion of Mr. POLLOCK :-

"11. This Ordinance shall continue in force only until the expiration of a period of Duration of

six months from the conclusion of the present war.'

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Ordinance.

The heading “Schedule was altered to read First Schedule" and the Hongkong Defence Corps Regulations, 1917, were added to the Bill as the "Second Schedule".

On Council resuming, the Attorney General reported that the Bill had passed through Committee with amendments and moved that it be read a third time.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time and passed.

ADJOURNMENT.--The Council then adjourned sine die.

Confirmed this 13th day of September, 1917.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

F. H. MAY, Governor.

No. 408.--His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council:-

Ordinance No. 20 of 1917. --An Ordinance to amend the Special Police Reserve

Ordinance, 1914, and to remove doubts as to the effect of the proclamation made under section 10 of the said Ordinance on the third day of Septem- ber, 1915.

Ordinance No. 21 of 1917.-An Ordinance to amend further the Jury Ordinance,

1887.