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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 8, 1940.

Internal administration

in relation to any visiting A.D. 1933.

force includes the administration of the property of a deceased member of the force; and

* Member in relation to a visiting force includes any person who is by the law of that part of the Commonwealth to which the force belongs subject to the naval, military or air force law thereof, and who, being a member of another force, is attached to the visiting force, or, being a civilian employed in connexion with the visiting force, entered into his engagement outside the United Kingdom.

(2) An Order in Council under this Act may be revoked or varied by a subsequent Order in Council.

9. This Act may be cited as the Visiting Forces (British Short title. Commonwealth) Act, 1933.

No. 1229

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.

5th November, 1940.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 24TH DAY OF JULY, 1940

PRESENT

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsections (1) and (2) of Section 5 of the Visiting Forces (British Commonwealth) Act, 1983 (hereinafter called the Act), it is provided that His Majesty may as regards any colony by Order in Council direct that the pro- visions of sections one to three of the Act, or such of those provisions as may be specified in the Order, shall, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be so specified. apply in that colony in relation to forces visiting that colony and in relation to deserters and absentees without leave, as they apply in the United Kingdom: and that His Majesty may as regards any colony by Order in Council direct that the provisions of section four of the Act shall, with such exceptions and subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be specified in the Order, apply in relation to all or any of the forces raised in that colony, and in relation to officers and members thereof, as they apply in relation to home forces and officers and members thereof :

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