Hong Kong Ordinances

CIVIL AID SERVICE ORDINANCE - SECT 16

Calling out of Service

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

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

CALLING OUT ON ACTIVE SERVICE; VOLUNTARY DUTY

(1) The Chief Executive may, on the occasion of any emergency by order
published in the Gazette call out the whole or any part of the Service on
active service. (Amended 76 of 1999 s. 3)

(2) The Commissioner may, on the occasion of any emergency or for the purpose
of giving effect to any order of the Chief Executive under section 4(b), order
the call out on active service of the whole or any part of the Service or of
any member. (Amended 76 of 1999 s. 3)

(3) Every member so called out shall report at a place and time directed by
the Commissioner.

(4) A member so called out is deemed to be on active service as from the time
he reports at the place directed by the Commissioner.

(5) A member who is on active service-

   (a)  shall attend at such places and perform such duties as may be assigned
        to him by the Commissioner;

   (b)  shall remain on active service until he is stood down from
        active service by order of the Chief Executive or by direction of the
        Commissioner under subsection (6). (Amended 76 of 1999 s. 3)

(6) The Commissioner may direct any member who is on active service-

   (a)  to stand down from active service; or

   (b)  to stand down from active service temporarily and to report again for
        active service at a specific place and time.

(7) A member directed to stand down under subsection (6)(a) or (b) is deemed
on receipt of the direction to have ceased to be on active  service or to have
ceased temporarily to be on active service, as the case may be.

(8) A member directed to report again for active service under subsection
(6)(b)-

   (a)  is deemed to have been called out on active service in pursuance of a
        new order by the Chief Executive under subsection (1) or by the
        Commissioner under subsection (2) (as the case may be); and (Amended
        76 of 1999 s. 3)

   (b)  on reporting again in accordance with the direction, is deemed as from
        that time to be on active service.

(9) A member who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with subsection (3)
or (5)(a) or (b) commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3 and to
imprisonment for 6 months.