Hong Kong Regulations

ESSENTIAL SERVICES CORPS (GENERAL) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3

Appointment of Commissioner. Powers

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 76 of 1999 s. 3

(1) The Corps shall be under the control and administration of a Commissioner
appointed by the Chief Executive by notice in the Gazette.

(76 of 1999 s. 3)

(2) For the purposes of such control and administration the Commissioner may-

   (a)  issue orders as he may think fit for the general direction of the Unit
        or Sub-Units and for routine duties of the Corps;

   (b)  assign any member of the Corps, other than a Unit Controller or
        Sub-Unit Controller, to any Unit or Sub-Unit in the Corps for any
        essential service for which his medical classification and his
        abilities and qualifications fit him.

(3) The Commissioner may establish a Unit to be known as the Reserve Unit to
which he shall assign any person classified Category B under the provisions of
regulation 5(1). The provisions of these regulations shall be applicable to
every member of the Reserve Unit with the following modifications-

   (a)  the provisions of regulation 9 shall not be applicable to any member
        of the Reserve Unit;

   (b)  no member of the Reserve Unit when called out for active  service
        shall be required to perform any duties more arduous than those
        required in the performance of the duties of the normal employment on
        which he was engaged at the time he was called out for active service;
        (L.N. 49 of 1967)

   (c)  when called out for active service, members of the Reserve Unit may be
        instructed by the Commissioner to report for duty with any other Unit
        or Sub-Unit of the Corps, and shall, subject only to the provisions of
        sub-paragraph (b), thereupon be considered in all respects to be
        members of the Unit or Sub-Unit to which they have been instructed to
        report; (L.N. 49 of 1967)

   (d)  no member of the Reserve Unit shall be bound to comply with the
        provisions of regulation 18(2) until instructed to do so by the
        Commissioner. Such instructions may be conveyed by the Commissioner
        either verbally or in writing in any manner which appears to him to be
        most convenient;

   (e)  in the absence of any other appointment made under the provisions of
        regulation 10, the Commissioner shall be deemed to be Unit  Controller
        of the Reserve Unit;

   (f)  the Commissioner may require any person posted to the Reserve Unit to
        re-submit himself for medical examination at any time and, if on
        re-examination he is classified Category A in accordance with the
        provisions of regulation 5, may re-assign him to any Unit or Sub-Unit
        of the Corps. (G.N.A. 83 of 1952)