Hong Kong Regulations

ESSENTIAL SERVICES CORPS (GENERAL) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 9

Requirements for efficiency

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) every member who fails
without reasonable excuse to complete the requirements of efficiency in any
year shall be guilty of an offence. Penalty: a fine of $1000 or imprisonment
for 6 months.

(2) No member shall be liable to prosecution under paragraph (1) in respect of
the year during which he attains the age of 60 years if he proposes to resign
membership of the Corps in accordance with the provisions of regulation 14(4).

(3) If any volunteer other than a person referred to in paragraph

(2) quits the Corps without completing with diligence the requirements of
efficiency in any year, he shall be liable to a fine of $100: (G.N.A. 4 of
1961) Provided that the Commissioner may exempt from liability any volunteer
who, in his opinion, quits the Corps for a reasonable and bona fide cause.

(4) The requirements for efficiency in any year shall be-

   (a)  the performance with diligence by the member of such number of
        training periods as the Commissioner, with the approval of the Chief
        Secretary for Administration, shall direct for each Unit and Sub-Unit
        of the Corps: (G.N.A. 4 of 1961; L.N. 226 of 1976; L.N. 362 of 1997)
        Provided that no such direction shall require the performance of less
        than 5 or more than 60 training periods in any year and that any such
        direction shall be communicated in such manner as the Commissioner
        shall consider convenient to all members of the Unit or Sub-Unit
        affected thereby. (G.N.A. 83 of 1952; G.N.A. 4 of 1961; L.N. 49 of
        1967)

   (b)  the member shall have performed any training required of him with
        diligence. (G.N.A. 4 of 1961)

(5) Unit Controllers shall supply the Commissioner with such certificates
showing the number of training periods performed by members of the Unit under
their control, and the diligence or otherwise of individual members, as the
Commissioner may request. (L.N. 49 of 1967)

(6) For the purpose of this regulation, the year shall be deemed to start on
the 1st April. (L.N. 49 of 1967) (G.N.A. 162 of 1951)