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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH MARCH, 1893.

Governor may call out volunteers for

actual military service in case of national emergency, invasion, re.

Pay and Allowances en actual military service.

Relief to tamilies of Volunteers enlled out on service.

Tension to officers and

volunteers disabled on

service and to widows and families of those killed

on service,

(e) Generally, the execution of this Ordinance and the general government and discipline of the Vol- unteer Force.

PART II.

Actual Military Service.

13. (1) In case of great national emergency or in case of actual or apprehended invasion of or attack on the Colony the Governor may by Proclamation call out any Volunteer Corps for actual military service.

(2) Every officer and volunteer belonging to every corps so called out shall be bound to assemble at such place and perform such service as may be directed by the Governor.

(3) Every such officer and volunteer from the time of his corps being so called out shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed on actual military service.

If any such officer or volunteer not incapacitated by infirmity for service refuses or neglects so to assemble he shall be decmed a deserter.

(4) The period of such service shall continue so long as the Governor in Council shall consider necessary and shall end only by order of the Governor.

(5) Nothing in this Ordinance shall render any officer or volunteer liable to serve or proceed on duty without his consent beyond the limits of the Colony, except in the case of Coast Defence Volunteers under Part VI in cases where they may be employed in the waters of Hongkong or waters adjacent thereto.

14. All persons enrolled in any Volunteer Corps when called out on actual military service by the Governor shall be entitled to pay and allowances in like manner and after like rates and conditions and to be quartered or billeted in like manner in every respect and under and subject to the same regulations as Her Majesty's regular forces as far as the same shall by the Governor in Council be deemed applic- able to the Volunteer Corps.

15. All persons enrolled and who shall when called out on such actual military service as aforesaid leave families unable to support themselves shall during the period of their absence on such service be entitled to relief for their wives and families and it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to fix the amount of such relief.

16. All officers and volunteers who shall have received wounds or injuries when called out on actual military service as aforesaid and the widows and families of all such officers and volunteers who may have been killed or have died, within twelve months after having been wounded, of wounds re- ceived during such actual military service or have died within twelve months from illness directly traceable to fatigue or exposure incident to such service shall be entitled to such pensions or gratuities as shall be fixed by the Gov- eruor in Council provided that no pension or gratuity under this section shall exceed the sum of one thousand dollars per annum.

As to disci-

pline while

not on actual military service.

PART III.

Discipline.

17. With respect to the discipline of officers and volun- teers while they are not on actual military service or under- going drill exercise, training, or inspection together with or voluntarily doing any duty together with Her Majesty's regular forces or any part thereof, the following provisions shall take effect :-

(1) The Commanding Officer of a Volunteer Corps may, subject to such appeal to the Governor as hereinafter mentioned, discharge from the corps any volunteer and strike him out of the muster roll either for disobedience of orders by him while doing any duty with his corps or for neglect of duty or misconduct by him as a member of the corps or for other sufficient cause the exist- ence and sufficiency of such causes respectively to be judged of by the Commanding Officer or in case of appeal by the Governor.