Hong Kong Ordinances

CIVIL AID SERVICE ORDINANCE - SECT 27

Obstructing members

(1) Any person who wilfully obstructs any member in the carrying out of his
duty under this Ordinance commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level
1 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

(2) Any employer who, without reasonable excuse-

   (a)  prevents an employee who is a member from carrying out any duty
        pursuant to a calling out under section 16 on the occasion of any
        emergency;

   (b)  reduces, or makes any deduction from, the salary or wages of that
        employee by reason of his performance of any duty pursuant to that
        calling out;

   (c)  dismisses an employee, by reason of his performance of any duty
        required pursuant to that calling out, otherwise than in accordance
        with the conditions of his contract of employment, commits an offence
        and is liable to a fine at level 1.

(3) Despite subsection (2)(b), an employer may make deductions from the salary
or wages of an employee in respect of any period when the employee is absent
from his employment on active service.