Hong Kong Ordinances

CIVIL AID SERVICE ORDINANCE - SECT 26

Medical and hospital treatment and pay

PART VII

MISCELLANEOUS

(1) A member who while on duty sustains an injury or contracts an illness
which is attributable to or aggravated by the discharge of his duty shall-

   (a)  be provided with free medical and hospital treatment arranged by the
        Government;

   (b)  during the period of any absence from duty necessitated by the injury
        or illness, receive the full pay and allowances payable to that member
        in relation to those duties.

(2) A member who, having been called out on active service on the occasion of
an emergency, substains an injury while travelling by any means to report for
duty or when returning to his place of work or his usual place of residence
after completing that duty is deemed for the purposes of subsection (1) to
have sustained an injury in the circumstances specified in subsection (1).