VOLUNTEER AND NAVAL VOLUNTEER PENSIONS ORDINANCE

VOLUNTEER AND NAVAL VOLUNTEER PENSIONS ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

VOLUNTEER AND NAVAL VOLUNTEER PENSIONS

ORDINANCE

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CHAPTER 202

VOLUNTEER AND NAVAL VOLUNTEER PENSIONS

Tovalidate payments of pensions, gratuities, and other grants in
respect of the death, disablement or sickness of officers and
volunteers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and
members of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force who were
called out on actual military service or actual service during the
1939 World War.

[2 June 1950.1

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Volunteer and Naval
Volunteer Pensions Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires

'member' means a person who was serving in the Hong Kong Naval
Volunteer Force constituted under the Naval Volunteer Ordinance
1933, as a member;

'officer' and 'volunteer' mean a person who was serving in the Hong
Kong Volunteer Defence Corps constituted under the Volunteer
Ordinance 1933, as an officer or volunteer,

---Order'means the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and
Death) Service Pensions Order 1978. (Added, ]-5 ol' 1981,s.2)

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations
for the purpose of paying pensions, gratuities and other grants in
respect of the death, disablement or sickness of officers and volunteers
who were called out on actual military service under the Volunteer
Ordinance 1933, on or after 7 December 1941, and it shall be deemed to
have been lawful and shall be lawful to pay in respect of such persons
pensions, gratuities and other grants computed according to the
provisions of the Order except where the provisions of the Order are
modified for the purpose of this Ordinance by regulations made
hereunder by the Governor in Council.

(Amended, 15 of 1981, s. 2)

4. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations
for the purpose of paying pensions, gratuities and other grants in
respect of the death, disablement or sickness of members who were
called out on actual service under the Naval Volunteer Ordinance 1933,
on or after 30 August 1939, and it shall be deemed to have been lawful
and shall be lawful to pay in respect of such persons pensions,
gratuities and other grants computed according to the provisions of the
Order except where the provisions of the Order are modified for the
purpose of this Ordinance by regulations made hereunder by the
Governor in Council.

(Amended, 15 of 1981, s. 2)





5. There shall be kept at the Treasury a copy of the Order
and such copy shall be available for inspection by the public without
charge during normal office hours.
(Amended. 15 of 1981, s. 2)

6. For the purposes of this Ordinance-

(a)powers similar to those exercised by the Secretary of State
in regard to the awarding, continuing, withholding,
reviewing, varying, forfeiting, cancelling or restoring of an
award and the exercising of any other discretion incidental
thereto or otherwise in regard to the making or paying of
an award under the Order shall be exercised by the
Governor in Council save in so far as any other person, or
body of persons, may be nominated by the Governor in
Council by notice in the Gazette to exercise all or any of
such powers;

(b)every officer and volunteer of the Hong Kong Volunteer
Defence Corps shall be deemed for the purpose of this
Ordinance as being included within the definition of
'member of the military forces- as used in the Order;

(e)very member of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force
shall be deemed for the purpose of this Ordinance as being
included within the definition of -member of the naval
forces' as used in the Order.
(Amended, 15 of 1981, s. 2)
Originally 11 of 1950. (Cap. 202, 1950.) 15 of 1981. Short title. Interpretation. (30 of 1933.) (10 of 1933.) (S.I. 1978 1525.) Pensions and gratuities payable in respect of officers and volunteers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. (10 of 1933.) Pensions and gratuities payable in respect of members of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force. (30 of 1933.) Availability of Order. Modification of application of Order.

Originally 11 of 1950. (Cap. 202, 1950.) 15 of 1981. Short title. Interpretation. (30 of 1933.) (10 of 1933.) (S.I. 1978 1525.) Pensions and gratuities payable in respect of officers and volunteers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. (10 of 1933.) Pensions and gratuities payable in respect of members of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force. (30 of 1933.) Availability of Order. Modification of application of Order.

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