### Civil Aid Service Ordinance 《民眾安全服務隊條例》

26. Medical and hospital treatment and pay
(1) A member who while on duty sustains an injury or contracts an illness which is attributable to or aggravated by the discharge of his duty shall—
(a) be provided with free medical and hospital treatment arranged by the Government;
(b) during the period of any absence from duty necessitated by the injury or illness, receive the full pay and allowances payable to that member in relation to those duties.
(2) A member who, having been called out on active service on the occasion of an emergency, sustains an injury while travelling by any means to report for duty or when returning to his place of work or his usual place of residence after completing that duty is deemed for the purposes of subsection (1) to have sustained an injury in the circumstances specified in subsection (1). (Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)

27. Obstructing members
(1) Any person who wilfully obstructs any member in the carrying out of his duty under this Ordinance commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) Any employer who, without reasonable excuse—
(a) prevents an employee who is a member from carrying out any duty pursuant to a calling out under section 16 on the occasion of any emergency;
(b) reduces, or makes any deduction from, the salary or wages of that employee by reason of his performance of any duty pursuant to that calling out;
(c) dismisses an employee, by reason of his performance of any duty required pursuant to that calling out, otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of his contract of employment,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1.
(3) Despite subsection (2)(b), an employer may make deductions from the salary or wages of an employee in respect of any period when the employee is absent from his employment on active service.

### Civil Aid Service Ordinance 《民眾安全服務隊條例》

28. Improper possession of Service equipment or uniform, or impersonation of a member of Service
(1) Any person not being a member of the Service who—
(a) without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, has in his possession any document of identity issued by the Commissioner or any article being part of the clothing, insignia or equipment supplied to any member;
(b) puts on the uniform of any member, or impersonates any member, for the purpose of obtaining admission into any residence or other place, or of doing or procuring to be done any act which any member would be entitled to do or procure to be done of his own authority, or for any other unlawful purpose,
commits an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) Any person who knowingly buys or takes in exchange or in pawn from any member of the Service or any person acting on his behalf, or solicits or entices any member to sell or pawn any article being part of the clothing, insignia or equipment supplied to that or any other member of the Service, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2 years.

29. Summary remedies
(1) Any moneys due from a member or cadet under this Ordinance may be recovered summarily as a civil debt.
(2) A complaint under the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap. 227) in respect of the non-payment of any moneys due from a member or cadet may for the purposes of section 67 of that Ordinance be made in the name of the Commissioner, and any proceedings on that complaint may be conducted by a person appointed for that purpose by the Commissioner.

### Civil Aid Service Ordinance 《民眾安全服務隊條例》

30. Regulations
(1) The Chief Executive may make regulations providing for the better carrying out of this Ordinance and for anything which under this Ordinance is to be or may be prescribed. (Amended 76 of 1999 s. 3) 
(2) Without affecting the generality of subsection (1), regulations made under this section may provide for—
(a) the constitution, administration and discipline of the Service;
(b) the procedure and requirements for enrolment in the Service and for cancellation of enrolment;
(c) the establishment and maintenance of a roll of members;
(d) the terms of service, retirement, duties and powers of members;
(e) requirements as to efficiency and training of members;
(f) medical and hospital treatment for members;
(g) the issue of uniforms, equipment and stores to members;
(h) the issue by the Commissioner of documents of identity to members;
(i) the granting of awards or decorations to members;
(j) the acceptance of donations offered to the Service and the administration of any donation so accepted;
(k) matters relating to the Cadet Corps, including the recruitment, terms of service, activities, training and welfare of cadets.
(3) Regulations may—
(a) prohibit the performance of specified acts without the consent of the Commissioner;
(b) authorize the Commissioner to require or prohibit the performance of specified acts;
(c) require specified acts to be performed to the satisfaction of the Commissioner; and
(d) provide for the Commissioner to exempt any member or any applicant for membership from any requirement of this Ordinance.
(4) Regulations may provide that the contravention of any regulation shall constitute an offence punishable by a fine at level 3 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(5) No regulation shall require a member, unless called out for active service, to give full-time service.

31. Amendment of Schedule 1
The Secretary for Security may by order published in the Gazette amend Schedule 1.

32. Repeal and transitional arrangements
(1) The following are repealed—
(a) the Essential Services (Civil Aid Services) Corps Regulations (Cap. 197 sub. leg. E) (in this section referred to as the repealed regulations

### Civil Aid Service Ordinance 《民眾安全服務隊條例》

33. Saving
(1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the right of any person under—
(a) regulation 17 of the Essential Services Corps (General) Regulations (Cap. 197 sub. leg. A), including that regulation as applied by section 23(1) of the Auxiliary Forces Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance (20 of 1997); or (Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)
(b) the Auxiliary Forces Pay and Allowances Ordinance (Cap. 254),
to apply for or receive any pension, gratuity, allowance or other payment in respect of an injury sustained, or death resulting from an injury sustained, by a former member of the CAS Unit before the commencement* of this Ordinance, and those provisions shall continue to apply in respect of such pension, gratuity, allowance or other payment as if this Ordinance had not been enacted.
(2) Despite the amendments to the Pensions Ordinance (Cap. 89), the Pension Benefits Ordinance (Cap. 99) and the Pension Benefits (Judicial Officers) Ordinance (Cap. 401) effected by section 34 and Schedule 2, the provisions of those Ordinances as in force immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance shall continue to apply in relation to a former member of the CAS Unit or his dependants in respect of any injury sustained, or death resulting from any injury sustained, by the former member as if those provisions had not been amended by this Ordinance.
(3) In subsections (1) and (2), reference to a former member of the CAS Unit includes reference to—
(a) a person who had ceased to be a member of the CAS Unit before the commencement of this Ordinance; or
(b) a person who was a member of the CAS Unit immediately before that commencement.
(4) Despite the amendments to The Ombudsman Ordinance (Cap. 397) effected by section 34 and Schedule 2, the provisions of that Ordinance in force immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance shall continue to apply as regards any action taken by or on behalf of the Civil Aid Services (department) in the exercise of its administrative functions before the commencement of this Ordinance.

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 13 June 1997.