Hong Kong Ordinances

AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICE ORDINANCE - SECT 12

Powers of members of Service

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adapation amendments retroactively made - see 76 of 1999 s. 3

(1) Subject to any instructions of the Chief Executive or to any regulations,
the Commissioner or other officer, when on active service on the occasion of
any emergency, may take such measures as appear to him necessary to assist in
the protection of life and property, the protection of public health or the
maintenance of public safety and generally for combating the emergency and
restricting the dangers and consequences it occasions and, without limiting
the generality of the preceding words of this subsection, the Commissioner or
other officer may by himself or members of the Service under his control,
assist in breaking into or through any premises.

(2) The Commissioner of Police may in writing confer on any member called out
on active service any or all of the powers that are conferred by law on a
police officer.

(3) Without prejudice to subsection (2), the Chief Executive may by regulation
confer on any member called out on active service any other power as may be
necessary for the performance of the member's duty. (Amended 76 of 1999 s. 3)