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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 28, 1940.

L.S.

HONG KONG.

No. 23 OF 1940.

I assent.

N. L. SMITH,

Officer Administering the Government.

28th June, 1940.

An Ordinance to amend the Compulsory Service Ordinance,

1939.

[28th June, 1940.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Compulsory Short title. Service Amendment Ordinance, 1940.

ance No. 32

2. Sub-section (2) of Section 11 of the Compulsory Substitution Service Ordinance, 1939, as amended by Government Noti- for Ordin fications No. 855 of 1939 and No. 604 of 1940, is repealed of 1939, and the following sub-section is substituted therefor :-

(2) The said reserve shall be divided into groups, to which the members shall be respectively assigned by the tribunal, namely---

(a) a combatant group;

(b) a key-posts group consisting of persons who, in the event of any emergency contemplated by the Compulsory Service Tribunal, will be primarily required, in the opinion of the tribunal, to continue in the work in which they are normally engaged;

(c) a general group for essential services consisting of persons who, in the event of any emergency contemplated by the Compulsory Service tribunal will be primarily required, in the opinion of the tribunal, to perform essential services which are not those in which they are normally engaged:

Provided that, subject to the provisions of section 8 ast to appeals, the Compulsory Service tribunal may at any time. revoke or vary an assignment of a person to a particular group and may assign him to another group :

s. 11 (2).

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