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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 14, 1918.

Interpreta- tion.

Application.

5 and 6 Geo.

5. c. 104,

First Schedule.

General Military Service Tribunal.

Medical

examination.

2. In this Ordinance :-

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"Civil Servant" means a British subject who is in the employment of the Government of the Colony and whose whole time is at the dis- posal of the Government :

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Enrolment Lists meau the lists referred to in

section 10 of this Ordinance:

"Force

means the force referred to in sections 10 and 11 of this Ordinance :

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"Proper Authority means the person appointed by the Governor for the purposes of sections 5 and 6 of this Ordinance :

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Proper Military Authority means the person appointed, for the purposes of section 8 of this Ordinance, by the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of His Majesty's regular troops within the Colony :

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"Tribunal means the tribunal referred to in sec-

tion 4 of this Ordinance.

3.-(1.) This Ordinance shall not apply to any of the following persons :——

(a) Members of His Majesty's Regular Naval or

Military Forces :

(b) Civilians in the employment of the Naval or

Military Authorities :

(e) Men in holy orders and such regular ministers of recognised religious denominations as the Governor in Council may exempt:

(d) Men who have left or been discharged from the naval or military service of the Crown in consequence of disablement or ill-health.

(2.) In the application of this Ordinance to civil servants, the following modifications shall have effect, namely, that the enquiry shall be held by the Governor and not by the Tribunal, and that it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon such enquiry as he shall think fit, to decide that any civil servant of or over the age of eighteen years, who shall not have attained the age of forty years before the commencement of this Ordinance, should be enrolled in the force.

4.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint such and so many persons as he may think fit, not being less in number than seven, to form a tribunal to be called the General Military Service Tribunal, which shall contain a substantial commercial majority.

(2.) In the event of the death, resignation, absence from the Colony, or inability to act, of any member of the Tribunal, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint any person whom he may think fit to fill the place of such member, either temporarily or permanently, but the sub- stantial commercial majority shall always be maintained.

(3.) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a Chairman of the Tribunal. The Chairman shall preside at all sittings of the Tribunal at which he is present, and in his absence the members of the Tribunal present shall choose one of their number to preside at the sitting in question.

(4.) Five members of the Tribunal shall constitute a

quorum.

(5.) It shall also be lawful for the Governor to appoint a clerk to the Tribunal. Any order, summons, subpœna, notice, notification, or other document issued or published by the Tribunal may be issued and published in the name of the said clerk,

5.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Proper Authority, at any time or times, to order any male British subject of or over the age of eighteen years, who shall not have attained the age of forty years before the commencement of this Ordinance, to attend at such time and place as may be specified in the said order and there to submit himself to be medically examined for the purposes of this Ordinance,