THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 15, 1940.
9.-(1) All Corps equipment shall be and remain the Equipment property of the Government.
(2) All Corps equipment shall, when required by the Director of Air Raid Precautions, be produced or delivered up as directed by him.
(3) On the death, resignation or discharge of any member of the Corps the person or persons into whose hands the Corps equipment of the deceased shall come shall forthwith return the same to the Director of Air Raid Precautions.
to remain property of the Government.
10.-(1) If any member of the Corps wilfully makes Equipment away with, sells, pawns, or wilfully damages, destroys or not to be
wrongfully negligently loses or unlawfully refuses or neglects to produce disposed of. or deliver up any Corps equipment issued to him the value thereof shall be recoverable from him summarily before a magistrate by the Director of Air Raid Precautions or his representative.
(2) If any person knowingly buys or takes in exchange or in pawn from any member of the Corps, or any person acting on his behalf, or solicits or entices any member of the Corps to sell or pawn, or has in his possession without lawful authority or excuse any Corps equipment, such persons shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
11.—(1) In case of apprehended or actual attack on the Colony the Governor by proclamation may call out for active service all or any members of the Corps.
(2) Every member of the Corps so called out shall attend at such place and perform such duties as the Director of Air Raid Precautions or his Officers shall direct.
(3) The period of such active service shall end only by proclamation of the Governor.
Calling out for active
service.
called out.
12. Every member of the Corps when called out on Pay when service shall be entitled to such pay and allowances, if any, as may be laid down by Regulations.
Pensious or gratuities disabled and
to members
widows and families of
13. All members of the Corps who shall have received wounds or injuries when on active service, whether employed on general public duties, or as House Wardens on particular private duties, and the widows and families or dependents of all such members who have been killed or have died of those killed wounds or injuries received during such active service, or have died from illness directly traceable to fatigue or exposure incident to such active service shall be eligible for such pen- sions or gratuities as the Governor in Council shall fix.
on active service.
14. It shall be lawful for the Director of Air Raid Powers of Precautions-
(i) to make departmental orders as he may think fit for the carrying out of the routine of the Corps and for regulating the internal economy thereof;
(ii) to issue such orders as he may deem necessary to make the Corps efficient and to maintain it as such and to see that such orders are duly obeyed;
(iii) to take full charge of the Corps when it is called out for active service and to issue all necessary orders for
the Director of Air Raid Precautions.
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