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

5. Medical examination of members of the Corps
(1) The following medical categories shall be applicable to a member of the Corps enrolled for service in—
(a) (Repealed 58 of 1997 ss. 33(2) & (4) & 34)(b) the Auxiliary Fire Services Unit; or
(c) (Repealed 57 of 1997 ss. 33(2) & (4) & 34)Category A: Fit for service in the Essential Services Corps.Category B: Fit for service in the Reserve Unit only. (L.N. 55 of 1972)
(2) Every volunteer for enrolment in a Unit specified in paragraph (1) shall, unless exempted under paragraph (5), before enrolment be requested to submit to a medical examination.
(3) A volunteer for enrolment in a Unit specified in paragraph (1) who declines to undergo medical examination, when requested so to do, shall be required to sign a statement in Form III in the Second Schedule.
(4) If a member enrolled in a Unit specified in paragraph (1) who is required for any reason to undergo medical examination, fails to pass such examination, but wishes to remain a member of the Corps, he shall be required to sign a statement in Form IV in the Second Schedule, before his application to remain a member can be considered. (G.N.A. 76 of 1954)
(5) The Commissioner may on the advice of the Director of Health and with the consent of such volunteer, exempt from the provisions of paragraph (2) any volunteer for enrolment in a Unit specified in paragraph (1), who is a public servant and whose medical condition is in the opinion of the Director of Health sufficiently well known to the Government medical authorities to enable them to classify him in one of the medical categories prescribed by paragraph (1). (L.N. 76 of 1989)
(G.N.A. 162 of 1951; G.N.A. 83 of 1952; L.N. 55 of 1972)

6. Cancellation of enrolment
(1) Upon the death of a member or the resignation or discharge of a member from membership of the Corps the Commissioner shall cause the enrolment of such member to be cancelled.
(2) In the case of the resignation or discharge of a member a certificate of cancellation in Form V in the Second Schedule shall be signed by the Commissioner and supplied to such member.

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

7. Medical attention
A member of the Corps who, when called out for active service or in training sustains a wound or injury or contracts an illness, which, in the opinion of a medical officer is attributable to or aggravated by such service, shall be granted free medical treatment by the Government medical services and, if admitted to a Government hospital, free maintenance therein and during the period of such treatment and until cancellation of the enrolment of such member shall receive full pay and allowances payable to such member. 
(G.N.A. 162 of 1951; L.N. 49 of 1967)

8. Formation of Units and Sub-Units
(Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 76 of 1999 s. 3)
The Corps shall consist of such Units and Sub-Units as may from time to time be determined by the Chief Executive.
(L.N. 49 of 1967; 76 of 1999 s. 3)

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

9. Requirements for efficiency
(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) every member who fails without reasonable excuse to complete the requirements of efficiency in any year shall be guilty of an offence. Penalty: a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) No member shall be liable to prosecution under paragraph (1) in respect of the year during which he attains the age of 60 years if he proposes to resign membership of the Corps in accordance with the provisions of regulation 14(4).
(3) If any volunteer other than a person referred to in paragraph (2) quits the Corps without completing with diligence the requirements of efficiency in any year, he shall be liable to a fine of $100: (G.N.A. 4 of 1961)
Provided that the Commissioner may exempt from liability any volunteer who, in his opinion, quits the Corps for a reasonable and bona fide cause.
(4) The requirements for efficiency in any year shall be—
(a) the performance with diligence by the member of such number of training periods as the Commissioner, with the approval of the Chief Secretary for Administration, shall direct for each Unit and Sub-Unit of the Corps: (G.N.A. 4 of 1961; L.N. 226 of 1976; L.N. 362 of 1997)
Provided that no such direction shall require the performance of less than 5 or more than 60 training periods in any year and that any such direction shall be communicated in such manner as the Commissioner shall consider convenient to all members of the Unit or Sub-Unit affected thereby. (G.N.A. 83 of 1952; G.N.A. 4 of 1961; L.N. 49 of 1967)
(b) the member shall have performed any training required of him with diligence. (G.N.A. 4 of 1961)
(5) Unit Controllers shall supply the Commissioner with such certificates showing the number of training periods performed by members of the Unit under their control, and the diligence or otherwise of individual members, as the Commissioner may request. (L.N. 49 of 1967)
(6) For the purpose of this regulation, the year shall be deemed to start on the 1st April. (L.N. 49 of 1967)
(G.N.A. 162 of 1951)

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

10. Appointment of Unit and Sub-Unit Controllers. Duties and powers
(1) The organization and control of Units and Sub-Units shall be conducted by Unit and Sub-Unit Controllers.
(2) Unit and Sub-Unit Controllers may be appointed by the Commissioner from members of the Corps. (L.N. 116 of 1974)
(3) It shall be the duty of a Unit Controller or Sub-Unit Controller to supervise and control all duties performed by the Unit or Sub-Unit under his control and to keep proper record of all members of the Corps and equipment appertaining to his Unit or Sub-Unit. For such purposes a Unit Controller or Sub-Unit Controller may—
(a) issue orders as he may think fit for the direction of the duties to be performed by such Unit or Sub-Unit;
(b) assign any member of his Unit or Sub-Unit to any duty required to be performed by the Unit or Sub-Unit, for which duties the medical classification of the member and his abilities and qualifications fit him;
(c) organize the training of members in the duties which they may be called upon to perform. (G.N.A. 162 of 1951; L.N. 49 of 1967)

11. Absence from Hong Kong and change of address
(Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 76 of 1999 s. 3)
A member shall report to the Commissioner any change of particulars provided upon enrolment or his intention to be absent from Hong Kong for any period exceeding 7 days or any illness of a nature preventing the performance of active service.
(G.N.A. 4 of 1961; L.N. 49 of 1967; 76 of 1999 s. 3)

12. Equipment
(1) A member of the Corps may be supplied with such equipment as the Commissioner may deem necessary for the performance of duties by such member. Any equipment so supplied shall remain the property of the Government and shall be returned to the Commissioner in good order (fair wear and tear only excepted)—
(a) upon the member ceasing to be a member of the Corps; or
(b) upon the member being called upon so to do by the Commissioner.
(2) If any member, without justifiable reason, fails to surrender such equipment when required so to do, the value thereof shall be recoverable from such member by the Commissioner from any pay or allowance payable to the member or as a civil debt.