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(3) I' any member of the compulsory service tribunal dies, resigns, is absent from the Colony or unable to act, the Governor may appoint any person whom he thinks fit to fill the place of such member, either temporarily or permanently.

(3) The Governor may appoint a chairman of the compulsory service tribunal. The chairman shall preside at all sittings of the tribunal at which he is present, and in his absence the members of the tribunal present chall choose one of their number to preside at the sitting in question.

(4) Three members of the compulsory service tribunal shall constitute a quorum.

(3) The Governor may also ap cint a clerk to the compulsory service tribunal. Any order, summons, subpoena, notice, notification or other document issued or published by the tribunal may be issued and published in the name of the said clerk.

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(1) Subject to the provisions of section 3, it shall be lawful for the proper authority at any time to order any male Sritish subject of or over the age of eighteen years, who for the time being is ordinarily resident in this Colony and has not attained the age of fifty-five years, to attend at such time and place as may be specified in the order and there to submit himself to be medically examined for the purposes of this Ordinance.

(2) If any such British subject without lawful excuse fails to comply with any such order as is referred to in this section he 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.

6. - (1) It shall be lawful for the proper authority to order any male British subject who, upon the medical examination referred to in section 5, has been certified as medically fit for enrolment in the reserve, to attend before the compulsory service tribunal at such time and place as may be specified in the order, unless he shall before that time have enrolled as a volunteer in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps or the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force.

Medical examination.

Schedule Form No. 1

Inquiry by compulsory service tribunal.

Schedule, Form No. 2.

(2) The compulsory service tribunal shall thereupon, either at the time and place specified in the said order or at such other time and place as the tribunal may direct, proceed to inquire and determine whether such British subject shall be enrolled in the reserve or shall be exempt from such enrolment.

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