HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE ORDINANCE, 1914

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE ORDINANCE, 1914

No. 27 of 1914.

An Ordinance to provide for the formation of the Hong-
kong Police
[23rd October, 1914.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hongkong Police
Reserve Ordinance, 1914.

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor to accept the ser-
vices of any persons desiring to be formed into the Hongkong
Police Reserve (hereinafter called the Reserve) and offering,
their services and on such acceptance being notified in the
Gazette the Hongkong Police Reserve shall be to be
Lawfully established.

3. Every member of the Reserve upon joining shall sign
an engagement in the form in the First Schedule or to the
like effect.

4. Every member of the Reserve shall on his admission
take the oath or make the declaration set forth in the Second
Schedule to be administered by a magistrate or justice of
the peace.
5.-(1) The Reserve shall be under the control of the
Captain Superintendent of Police and such other officers
as the Governor may appoint in that behalf.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
As amended by No. 20 of 1917 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.





(2) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent of
Police to issue such departmental orders as he may think fit
for the carrying out of the daily routine of the force and for
regulating the internal economy thereof.

6. The Captain Superintendent of Police may from time
to time appoint fitting persons to be instructors of the
Reserve who shall be charged with attending the annual
musketry course and with giving instructions in musketry
and in squad drill to the members of the Reserve.

7.-(1) For every member of the Reserve a carbine and
such appointments as the Governor May direct shall be sup-
plied by the Government for the use of such member.

(2) There shall be allowed annually for every member of
the Reserve one hundred rounds of ammunition, and there
may also be issued such further supply to members on such
terms as to payment or otherwise as the Governor may direct.

8. Any member may, except when actually enrolled is a
special constable under the Peace Preservation Ordinance,
1886, or when called out for service under section 10 of this
Ordinance, quit the Reserve on complying with the follow-
ing conditions:-

(a) giving the Captain Superintendent of Police three
months notice in writing of his intention;

(b) delivering up in good order, fair wear and tear only
excepted, all arms and ammunition, clothing and appoint-
ments, being public property, issued to him; and

(c) paying all money due or becoming due by him under
this Ordinance either before or at the time or by reason of
his quitting it.

Thereupon he shall be struck off the strength by the
Captain Superintendent of Police: Provided that the Gover-
nor shall have full power at all times to permit any member
to quit the Reserve on complying with conditions (b) and (c)
only.

9.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent
of Police to make, subject to the approval of the Governor in
Council, such regulations as he may deem expedient for the
general government and discipline of the Reserve.

As amended by No. 20 of 1917 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.





(2) Any member of the Reserve who commits a breach of
any such regulation, or who refuses or neglects to obey any
lawful order of any of his superior officers, or who is guilty
of any other breach of discipline or neglect of duty, may be
ordered by the Captain Superintendent of Police to pay a
fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or to undergo confine-
ment to barracks for any term not exceeding seven days.

(3) If any person who shall have been ordered to pay any
such fine fails to pay such fine within such time as may be
prescribed by the Captain Superintendent of Police, he shall
be liable to undergo confinement to barracks for any term not
exceeding seven days: Provided that, if such person shall
at any time while undergoing such confinement to barracks
pay in full the fine which he was ordered to pay, he shall
thereupon be released from such confinement.

(4) If any confinement to barracks is ordered under any
of the provisions of this section, it shall be lawful for the
Captain Superintendent of Police to direct in what place and
under what conditions such confinement shall take place.

(5) If any person who has been ordered to undergo
confinement to barracks under any of the provisions of this
section escapes from such confinement, or refuses or neglects
to obey any orders of the Captain Superintendent of Police
with respect to his conduct during such confinement to
barracks, he shall upon summary conviction be liable to a
fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and to imprisonment
for any term not exceeding six months.

9A. If any member of the Reserve commits a breach of any
regulation made under section 9, or refuses or neglects to obey
any lawful order of any of his superior officers, or is guilty
of any other breach of discipline or neglect of duty, he shall
upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding
two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding six months.

10. The Governor may, by proclamation, whenever it
appears to him advisable to do so, call the Reserve out
for service, and thereupon every person who is a mem-
ber of the Reserve at the commencement of such pro-
clamation, and every person who becomes a member of

As amended by No. 20 of 1917 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
As amended by No. 20 of 1917.





the Reserve after the commencement of such proclamation
and before the issue of a proclamation cancelling such calling
out, shall have the same powers for the preservation of the
peace, the prevention of offences, the apprehension of
offenders, and for all other purposes, and the same privileges,
protection, and immunities, as the members of the regular
police force of corresponding rank and standing, until the
Governor shall by proclamation cancel such calling out:
Provided that this section shall not confer any right to any
pay or compensation or reward, or any exemption from
liability to jury service.

11.-(1) All arms, ammunition, appointments and other
stores supplied at the public expense and issued to any
member of the Reserve, shall be and remain the property
of the Government, and shall be produced, exhibited and
delivered to any person authorised by the Governor to
inspect or receive the same.
(2) If any person wilfully makes away with, sells, pawns,
wrongfully destroys or damages, or negligently loses any-
thing issued to a member of the Reserve, or refuses or
neglects when lawfully required to produce, exhibit, or
deliver on demand anything which he is liable under this
Ordinance to produce, exhibit, or deliver, the value thereof
shall be recoverable from him summarily before a magistrate
by the Captain Superintendent of Police; and he shall also
upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding
fifty dollars.
(3) Whoever knowingly buys or takes in exchange or in
pawn from any member of the Reserve or person acting on
his behalf, or solicits or entices any member to sell or pawn,
or knowingly assists or acts for any member in selling or
pawning, or has in his possession or keeping, without
satisfactorily accounting therefor, any arms, ammunition,
clothing, appointments, or other articles, being public
property, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine
not exceeding fifty dollars.

12. Any of the powers conferred on the Captain Super-
intendent of Police by this Ordinance may be exercised by
any Deputy or Assistant Superintendent of the Reserve
deputed for that purpose by the Captain Superintendent of
Police.

As amended by Law. Rev. Ord., 1924.
As amended by No. 20 of 1917 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.





2296 No. 21 of 1914. HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

FIRST SCHEDULE. [s.3.]

Engagement to be signed by a member of the Hongkong Police Reserve.

I, (insert the name, address and addition of the member), hereby engage
myself to serve in the Hongkong Police Reserve subject to the provisions
of the Hongkong Police Reserve Ordinance, 1914, and the rules and
regulations thereunder in force.

Date at Hongkong, the day of ,19 .

(Signature)

SECOND SCHEDULE. [s. 4.]

1.-Oath to be taken by members of the Hongkong Police Reserve.

I, A.B., do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithfull and bear
true allegiance to His Majesty King George the Fifth His Heirs and
Successors according to law and that I will faithfully serve in the Hongkong
Police Reserve according to the conditions of my service.

So help me God.
Dated at Hongkong, the day of , 19 .

(Signature)
Before me,
(Signature)
Magistrate or Justice of the peace.

2. -Declaration to be made by members of the Hongkong Police Reserve.

I, A.B., do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare that I will be faithful
and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George the Fifth His Heirs
and Successors according to law and that I will faithfully serve in the Hong-
kong Police Reserve according to the conditions of my service.

Dated at Hongkong, the day of , 19 .

(Signature)

Before me,
(Signature)
Magistrate or Justice of the peace.

As amended by No. 20 of 1917 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
[Originally no. 27 of 1914. No. 20 of 1917. Law Rev. Ord, 1924.] short title. Power of Governor to establish a Hongkong Police reserve. Engagement. First Schedule. Oath. Second Schedule. Command. Departmental orders. Instruction. Arms, ammunition and appointments. Resignation. Ordinance No. 10 of 1886. Regulations. Penalty on conviction before a magistrate for neglect of duty, etc. Calling out for service. Wrongful detention or disposal of arms, appointments or stores. Delegation of powers.

[Originally no. 27 of 1914. No. 20 of 1917. Law Rev. Ord, 1924.] short title. Power of Governor to establish a Hongkong Police reserve. Engagement. First Schedule. Oath. Second Schedule. Command. Departmental orders. Instruction. Arms, ammunition and appointments. Resignation. Ordinance No. 10 of 1886. Regulations. Penalty on conviction before a magistrate for neglect of duty, etc. Calling out for service. Wrongful detention or disposal of arms, appointments or stores. Delegation of powers.

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