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Objects and Reasons.

This bill was drafted and recommended by the Com- mittee appointed, under Government Notification No. 1171 of the 12th December, 1939, to examine and report, inter alia, on the advisability of limiting by statute the number of hours per diem during which workers in shops and factories may be employed.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General,

February, 1940.

[No. 1-29.2.40.-4.]

Short title.

Interpreta. tion.

Regulations.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide for the establishment and regulation

of the Hong Kong Corps of Air Raid Wardens,

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 Hong Kong Corps of Air Raid Wardens Ordinance, 1940.

2. In this Ordinance-

"

means the

(a) Director of Air Raid Precautions Officer who shall for the time being hold the office of Director of Air Raid Precautions.

"

means

(b) Deputy Director of Air Raid Precautions the Officer who shall for the time being hold the Office of Deputy Director of Air Raid Precautions.

(c) "officers" means the Chief Air Raid Warden of Hong Kong and the Chief Air Raid Warden of Kowloon, New Kowloon, and the New Territories, the Deputy Chief Wardens, the Head Wardens, the Divisional Wardens and the Deputy Divisional Wardens.

((7) 'subordinate officers" means all District Wardens, Deputy District Wardens, Senior Wardens who are duly registered as such in the Corps Records.

(e) members includes officers, subordinate officers. Air Raid Wardens, House Wardens and Honorary Air Raid Wardens.

(f)"Corps" means the Hong Kong Corps of Air Raid

Wardens.

(g) "Corps Equipment" includes all uniform clothing, protective clothing, boots, accoutrements, badges, demon- stration models, respirators, tools, gear and other effects of any kind supplied by the Government and issued to a member of the Hong Kong Corps of Air Raid Wardens.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to nake regulations in respect of the following matters--

(a) the conditions of admission as members or Honorary Members to the Corps.

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