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[No. 3/38:-23.5.39.—7.]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to make provision with respect to compulsory

service.

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 Compulsory Short title. Service Ordinance, 1939.

2. In this Ordinance-

"civil servant" means a British subject who is in the employment of the Government of the Colony and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Government;

10;

"enrolment lists" means the lists referred to in section

"essential services" means such services as may for the time being, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, be essential to the life of the community;

"proper authority" means the person whom, for the purposes of sections 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10, the Governor may appoint;

"proper military authority" means the person whom, for the purposes of section 8, the senior military officer for the time being in command of His Majesty's regular troops in the Colony may appoint;

"reserve" means the Hong Kong Defence Reserve created by this Ordinance.

Interpreta- tion.

3.-(1) This Ordinance shall not apply to any of the Application following persons :-

(a) members of His Majesty's regular or reserve forces, other than army reservists who have been granted permission under paragraph 470 of the King's Regulations for the Army and the Army Reserve to reside permanently outside the United Kingdom;

(b) members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps or the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force;

(c) civilians in the employment of the naval, military or air force authorities;

(d) men in holy orders and such regular ministers of recognized religious denominations as the Governor in Council may exempt;

of this

Ordinance.

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