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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 125.--The following Bill was read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 30th May, 1918:----

A BILL

Short title.

Tuterpreta- tion.

Application.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide for the raising of a force the members of which shall be liable to service with His Majesty's Forces outside the Colony during the present war.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the General Military Service Ordinance, 1918.

2. In this Ordinance :—

Civil Servant means a person who is in the employment of the Government of the Colony and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Government :

**Enrolment Lists " mean the lists referred to in

section of this Ordinance :

"Force " means the force referred to in section 10

of this Ordinance :

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if

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*Proper Authority means the person appointed by the Governor for the purposes of sections 5 and 11 of this Ordinance:

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Proper Military Authority means the person appointed, for the purposes of section 7 of this Ordinance, by the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of His Majesty's regular troops within the Colony :

· Tribunal” means the tribunal referred to in sec-

tion 4 of this Ordinance.

3.--(1.) This Ordinance shall not apply to any of the

5 and 6 6co. following persous :—

5. c. 101,

First

Schedule.

General Military Service Tribunal.

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

Military Forces :

(4) Civilians in the employment of the Naval or

Military Authorities :

(c) 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, and men who have been discharged from the naval or military service of the Crown on the termina- tion of their period of service.

(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 include any civil servant in an Eurolment List.

4.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint such and so many persous as he may think fit, not being less in number than seven, to form a tribunal to be called The General Military Service Tribunal. The suid tribunal is hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal.