618903-1931-Colonial-Naval-Defence-Act-1931 — Page 2

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 12, 1931.

Provided that the enactments and regulations for the time being in force relating to officers and men of the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve raised in the United Kingdom shall not, subject to the provisions of the next following subsection, apply to officers or men raised by a colony except in so far as those enactments and regulations may be applied by the legislature of the colony under the foregoing provisions of this subsection.

(2) His Majesty in Council may, on such conditions as he thinks fit, authorise the Admiralty to accept any offer made by the Government of a colony to place at His Majesty's disposal for general service in the Royal Navy the whole or any number of the officers or men of the force raised by the colony as aforesaid, and while any such officers and men are at the disposal of His Majesty-

(a) such of them as do not form part either of the Royal Naval Reserve or of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve shall be subject to all the enactments and regulations for the time being in force relating to officers and men of the Royal Navy; (b) such of them as form part of the Royal Naval Reserve shall be subject to all the enactments and regulations for the time being in force relating to officers and men of the Royal Naval Reserve raised in the United Kingdom while in actual service;

(e) such of them as form part of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve shall be subject to all the enactments and regulations for the time being in force relating to officers and men of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve raised in the United Kingdom while in actual service:

Provided that the amount of the pay, wages, pensions, grants and other emoluments of any such officers and men while at the disposal of His Majesty, or of their wives, widows, children or other dependants, shall be such as may be determined by the legislature of the colony.

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3. Nothing in this Act or any Order in Council made thereunder shall be taken to authorise the payment out of the revenues of the United Kingdom of any expenses incurred in equipping or maintaining any vessel, officers or men placed at the disposal, of His Majesty under this Act, or in providing the pay, wages, pensions, grants or other emoluments of any such officers or men or of disposal their wives, widows, children or other dependants, but any such expenses may Majesty. be so paid, if, and so far as, moneys may be provided by Parliament in any year for that purpose.

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4.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Colonial Naval Defence Act, 1931.

(2) The Colonial Naval Defence Act, 1865, and the Colonial Naval Defence & 29 Vict. Act, 1909, are hereby repealed:

c. 14. 9 Edw. 7. c. 19.

Vict. c. 63

Provided that, without prejudice to the provisions of section thirty-eight 52 & 53 of the Interpretation Act, 1889, any provision made or authority given in pursuance of the Colonial Naval Defence Acts, 1865 and 1909, if in force at the commencement of this Act, shall continue in force, and, so far as it could have been made or given in pursuance of this Act, shall have effect as if made or given in pursuance of this Act.

(3) The powers conferred by this Act are in addition to, and not in derogation of, any powers which would be exerciseable by the legislature of a colony apart from this Act.

(4) Nothing in this Act shaH be taken to affect the provisions of the Naval 1&2 Geo. Discipline (Dominion Naval Forces) Act, 1911.

5 c. 47.