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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 336.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 20th July, 1939:-

C.S.O. 1/1818/1932.

A BILL

[No. 26-12.6.39.—2.]

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No.

10 of 1933, s. 7.

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No.

10 of 1933,

s. 16 (6).

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Volunteer Ordinance, 1933.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Volunteer Amend- ment Ordinance, 1939.

2. Section 7 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1933, is amended by the substitution of the words may be held" for the words shall be held

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in the first line.

3. Sub-section (6) of section 16 of the Volunteer Ordin- ance, 1933, is amended by the substitution of the date “1st day of April" for the date " 16th day of April" in the last

line.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 7 of the principal Ordinance provides that an annual inspection of the corps shall be held by a general or field officer of His Majesty's Army. Clause 2 of this Bill amends the provision by the substitution of the words "may be held" for the words shall be held ".

2. Section 16 (6) of the principal Ordinance provides that for the purposes of that section the year shall be deemed to commence on the 16th day of April. Clause 3 of this Bill changes that date to the 1st day of April in order to make the corps training year coincide with the Government's financial year.

June, 1939.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.