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24. The provisions of any Ordinance relating to the Storage of gunpowder, storage of gunpowder or explosives shall not apply to gunpowder or explosives belonging to any corps established or raised under this Ordinance; but such gunpowder and explosives shall only be stored in such places and subject to such regulations as may be approved by the Governor.
25. It shall be lawful for the Treasurer to pay to the commandant of any volunteer corps for the public purposes of the corps such sum in each year as may be authorised by the Governor in Council out of moneys voted by the Legislative Council.
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26.-(1) Every officer and volunteer shall, on his admission to a volunteer corps or as soon afterwards as may be, take the oath or make the declaration in the Second Schedule to be administered by a justice of the peace, or by an officer of the corps who has taken such oath or made such declaration.
(2) Every person who was a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps on the 23rd day of December, 1919, shall be exempt from the provisions of this section, but such exemption shall not relieve any such person from any duty or liability to which he would have been subject if he had taken the oath or declaration of allegiance prescribed by sub-section (1).
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27. Every person who obstructs or resists any member of a volunteer corps in the discharge of his duty shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
[s. 28, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
FIRST SCHEDULE.
[s. 11 (2).]
1. These regulations may be cited as the Hongkong Volunteer Regulations, 1920.
2. In these regulations, “the corps” means the first corps formed under the Hongkong Volunteer Ordinance, 1920.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
VOLUNTEER.
No. 2 of 1920.
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24. The provisions of any Ordinance relating to the Storage of
gunpowder, storage of gunpowder or explosives shall not apply to gun- gun powder or explosives belonging to any corps established or raised under this Ordinance; but such gunpowder and explosives shall only be stored in such places and subject to such regulations as may be approved by the Governor.
money for
25. It shall be lawful for the Treasurer to pay to the Payment of administrative commandant of any volunteer corps for the public purposes of the corps such sum in each year as may be corps. authorised by the Governor in Council out of moneys voted by the Legislative Council.
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26.-(1) Every officer and volunteer shall, on his ad- Oath of
allegiance. mission to a volunteer corps or as soon afterwards as may be, take the oath or make the declaration in the Second Second Schedule to be administered by a justice of the peace, or by an officer of the corps who has taken such oath or made such declaration.
(2) Every person who was a member of the Hongkong Defence Corps on the 23rd day of December, 1919, shall be exempt from the provisions of this section, but such exemption shall not relieve any such person from any duty or liability to which he would have been subject if he had taken the oath or declaration of allegiance prescribed by sub-section (1).
Schedule.
member of
corps.
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27. Every person who obstructs or resists any member Obstructing of a volunteer corps in the discharge of his duty shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
[s. 28, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
FIRST SCHEDULE.
[s. 11 (2).]
1. These regulations may be cited as the Hongkong Volunteer Regula- Short title. tions, 1920.
2. In these regulations, “the corps means the first corps formed under Interpreta- the Hongkong Volunteer Ordinance, 1920.
tion.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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