Hong Kong Ordinances

AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICE ORDINANCE - SECT 32

Repeal and transitional arrangements

(1) The Essential Services (Auxiliary Medical Services) Corps
Regulations ( Cap 197 sub. leg.) (in this section referred to as "the repealed
regulations") are repealed.

(2) The Auxiliary Medical Services Unit of the Essential Services Corps
established under regulation 2 of the repealed regulations (in this
section and in section 33 referred to as "the AMS Unit") is deemed to be the
Auxiliary Medical Service for the purposes of this Ordinance as if it was
raised and maintained under this Ordinance and, accordingly, at the
commencement of this Ordinance all those persons who immediately before that
commencement were members of the Essential Services Corps appointed to
the AMS Unit shall be deemed to be enrolled in the Service under section 10,
and each member so enrolled shall be deemed to hold the rank in the Service
specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 opposite the name of the rank held by him
in the AMS Unit immediately before that commencement and specified in column 1
of that Schedule.

(3) Despite section 3, the Service may until directed otherwise by the
Secretary for Security continue to use the name and style of

"Auxiliary Medical Services", being the name and style by which the AMS  Unit
was known before the commencement of this Ordinance.

(4) A person who is a member of the Service by virtue of subsection

(2) and who immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance was entitled
to receive any medical or hospital treatment or any pay and allowances under
regulation 7 of the Essential Services Corps (General)  Regulations ( Cap 197
sub. leg.) in respect of any wound or injury sustained or illness contracted
before that commencement shall be entitled to receive medical and hospital
treatment and pay and allowances under section 26 as if that wound or injury
or illness was an injury or illness sustained or contracted after that
commencement.

(5) A person who is a member of the Service by virtue of subsection

(2) and who immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance had
completed the performance with diligence of a period or periods of training
for the purposes of regulation 9(4) of the Essential Services 
Corps (General) Regulations ( Cap 197 sub. leg.) shall be deemed to have
completed the performance with diligence of a like number of hours of training
for the purposes of any requirement as to efficiency that may be imposed under
this Ordinance.

(6) A person who is a member of the Service by virtue of subsection

(2) and who immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance had, for the
purposes of section 15 of the Auxiliary Forces Pay and Allowances  Ordinance (
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   (a)  complied with or been exempted from any requirement of efficiency
        applicable to the AMS Unit;

   (b)  completed any programme of training specified by the Commissioner of
        the AMS Unit;

   (c)  completed any period of continuous training to the satisfaction of the
        Commissioner of the AMS Unit, shall for the purposes of that
        section 15 be deemed to have complied with, been exempted from or
        completed such requirement, programme or period of training as a
        member of the Service.

(7) For the purposes of a grant of honorary membership under section 11(1) to
an officer who is a member of the Service by virtue of subsection (2), regard
may be had to any service rendered to the AMS Unit by that person as a member
of the AMS Unit before the commencement of this Ordinance.

(8) A former member of the AMS Unit who retired or resigned from that Unit
before the commencement of this Ordinance shall be eligible to be granted
honorary membership under section 11(1) in the same manner as if he had been a
member of the Service at the date of his retirement or resignation.