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Short title.

Amendment

of Ordin-

[No. 46-13.11.39.-1.]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend yet further 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 (No. 3) Amendment Ordinance, 1939.

2. Section 2 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1933, is amended by relettering paragraph (f) as paragraph (g) and of 1933, s. 2. by inserting the following new paragraph after paragraph

ance No. 10

(e)

(f) Officer of an Auxiliary Unit holding a commission as an officer thereof.

means a person

Objects and Reasons.

1. Regulation 3 (1) of the Hong Kong Volunteer Regula- tions (Government Notification No. 696 in the Hong Kong Government Gazette No. 37 of the 25th August, 1939) provides for the division of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps into various Corps units and Auxiliary Units and an Affiliated Unit, and paragraph (5) of the Regulation provides inter alia that members of an Auxiliary Unit shall not be required to undergo any training unless called out for actual military service.

2. For administrative and other reasons it is considered that the officers of Auxiliary Units, generally technical experts, may be gazetted as officers thereof without the pre- vious training in the ranks of the Corps usually required in the case of officers of Corps Units.

3. The objects of this amending Bill is therefore to add to the definitions in section 2 of the principal Ordinance a special definition for officers of Auxiliary Units.

4. Such officers will then be in a position similar to other ranks in an auxiliary unit in that they will not be required to undergo military training or to provide themselves with uniform until their services are necessary.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

November, 1939.