### Essential Services Corps Ordinance 《基要服務團條例》

10. Complaints
Any member who feels that he has a just cause for complaint in any matter relating to the Corps may present his complaint to the Secretary for Security, through the Unit Controller of his unit with a right of appeal to the Chief Executive whose decision shall be final.
(Added 27 of 1951 s. 5. Amended L.N. 147 of 1977; 76 of 1999 s. 3)

11. Improper possession of arms or clothing, or assumption of character of member of the Corps
(1) Any person, not being a member of the Corps who—
(a) has in his possession any article being part of the clothing, accoutrements or appointments supplied to any member of the Corps and is not able satisfactorily to account for his possession thereof;
(b) puts on the dress or takes the name, designation or character of any member of the Corps for the purpose of thereby obtaining admission into any house or other place or of doing or procuring to be done any act which any such member would be entitled to do or procure to be done of his own authority, or for any other unlawful purpose,
shall, in addition to any other punishment to which he may be liable for such offence, be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) If any person knowingly buys or takes in exchange or in pawn from any member of the Corps or any person acting on his behalf, or solicits or entices any such member to sell or pawn any article being part of the clothing, accoutrements or appointments supplied to any member of the Corps, such person shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(Amended E.R. 5 of 2022)

12. Obstructing the Corps
Any person who wilfully obstructs any part of the Corps or any member in the performance of any service or duty under this Ordinance or regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(Added 27 of 1951 s. 5. Amended E.R. 5 of 2022)

### Essential Services Corps (General) Regulations 《基要服務團(一般)規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Essential Services Corps (General) Regulations.

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“active service” (現役服務) means service pursuant to a call out under regulation 18 or 19; (L.N. 49 of 1967)
“Commissioner” (總監) means the person appointed to be the Secretary for Security under regulation 3; (L.N. 147 of 1977)
“emergency” (緊急情況) means any occasion upon which all or any part of the Corps is called out for active service in accordance with regulation 18; (L.N. 49 of 1967) 
“equipment” (設備) means arms, ammunition, clothing, armlets, badges, steel helmets and other appointments being the property of the Government issued to a member of the Corps; (G.N.A. 162 of 1951)
“essential service” (基要服務) means any service declared to be an essential service in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Ordinance;
“member of the Corps” (服務團團員) or “member” (團員) means the Commissioner and every person who has enrolled in the Corps and whose enrolment has not been cancelled;
“training” (訓練) means duty, not being active service, pursuant to an order of the Commissioner or a Unit or Sub-Unit Controller; (L.N. 49 of 1967)
“training period” (訓練時段) means a period of training of one hour’s duration; (L.N. 49 of 1967)
“Unit” (單位) and “Sub-Unit” (附屬單位) means a sub-division of the Corps constituted under regulation 8;
“Unit Controller” (單位總監) or “Sub-Unit Controller” (附屬單位總監) means a member of the Corps for the time being entrusted with the control of a Unit or Sub-Unit of the Corps under regulation 10;
“volunteer member of the Corps” (服務團志願團員) or “volunteer” (志願團員) means a member of the Corps other than a person upon whom a liability to enrol in the Corps has been imposed by section 15 of the Compulsory Service Ordinance (Cap. 246). (G.N.A. 162 of 1951)

### Essential Services Corps (General) Regulations 《基要服務團(一般)規例》

3. Appointment of Commissioner. Powers
(Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 76 of 1999 s. 3)
(1) The Corps shall be under the control and administration of a Commissioner appointed by the Chief Executive by notice in the Gazette. (76 of 1999 s. 3)
(2) For the purposes of such control and administration the Commissioner may—
(a) issue orders as he may think fit for the general direction of the Unit or Sub-Units and for routine duties of the Corps;
(b) assign any member of the Corps, other than a Unit Controller or Sub-Unit Controller, to any Unit or Sub-Unit in the Corps for any essential service for which his medical classification and his abilities and qualifications fit him.
(3) The Commissioner may establish a Unit to be known as the Reserve Unit to which he shall assign any person classified Category B under the provisions of regulation 5(1). The provisions of these regulations shall be applicable to every member of the Reserve Unit with the following modifications—
(a) the provisions of regulation 9 shall not be applicable to any member of the Reserve Unit;
(b) no member of the Reserve Unit when called out for active service shall be required to perform any duties more arduous than those required in the performance of the duties of the normal employment on which he was engaged at the time he was called out for active service; (L.N. 49 of 1967)
(c) when called out for active service, members of the Reserve Unit may be instructed by the Commissioner to report for duty with any other Unit or Sub-Unit of the Corps, and shall, subject only to the provisions of sub-paragraph (b), thereupon be considered in all respects to be members of the Unit or Sub-Unit to which they have been instructed to report; (L.N. 49 of 1967)
(d) no member of the Reserve Unit shall be bound to comply with the provisions of regulation 18(2) until instructed to do so by the Commissioner. Such instructions may be conveyed by the Commissioner either verbally or in writing in any manner which appears to him to be most convenient;
(e) in the absence of any other appointment made under the provisions of regulation 10, the Commissioner shall be deemed to be Unit Controller of the Reserve Unit;
(f) the Commissioner may require any person posted to the Reserve Unit to re-submit himself for medical examination at any time and, if on re-examination he is classified Category A in accordance with the provisions of regulation 5, may re-assign him to any Unit or Sub-Unit of the Corps. (G.N.A. 83 of 1952)

### Essential Services Corps (General) Regulations 《基要服務團(一般)規例》

4. Enrolment
(1) Application may be made to the Commissioner for enrolment as a member of the Corps by any person of either sex being over the age of 16 years.
(2) Application shall be made upon completion of a form provided by the Commissioner.
(3) The Commissioner may in his discretion accept or reject any application made by a person desiring to enrol as a volunteer but shall after the making of the declaration provided for by paragraph (4) enrol in Corps all persons upon whom a liability to enrol therein has been imposed by section 15 of the Compulsory Services Ordinance (Cap. 246).
(4) The declaration in Form I in the Second Schedule shall be signed by every person prior to enrolment therein.
(5) Upon the making of such declaration, the declarant shall thereupon be enrolled and become a member of the Corps and a certificate of enrolment in Form II in the Second Schedule shall be signed by the Commissioner and supplied to the applicant.
(G.N.A. 162 of 1951)