Hong Kong Ordinances

AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICE ORDINANCE - SECT 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.), including that regulation as applied by section
        23(1) of the Auxiliary Forces Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments)
        Ordinance (20 of 1997): or

   (b)  the Auxiliary Forces Pay and Allowances Ordinance ( Cap 254), to apply
        for and 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 AMS 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 3, the
provisions of those Ordinances as in force immediately before commencement of
this Ordinance shall continue to apply in relation to a former member of
the AMS Unit or his dependants in respect of any injury sustained, or death
resulting from an 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  AMS Unit
includes reference to-

   (a)  a person who had ceased to be a member of the AMS Unit before the
        commencement of this Ordinance; or

   (b)  a person who was a member of the AMS Unit immediately before that
        commencement.

(4) Despite the amendments to The Ombudsman Ordinance ( Cap 397) effected by
section 34 and Schedule 3, 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 Auxiliary  Medical Services
(department) in the exercise of its administrative functions before the
commencement of this Ordinance.