ESSENTIAL SERVICES (AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE) CROPS REGULATIONS

ESSENTIAL SERVICES (AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE) CROPS REGULATIONS

ESSENTIAL L SERVICES (AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE)
CORPS REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 197, section 7).

[3rd November, 1950.1

1. These regulations may be cited as the Essential Services
(Auxiliary Fire Service) Corps Regulations, and shall be read as one with
the Essential Services Corps (General) Regulations, hereinafter referred
to as the principal regulations.

2. There is hereby established as a unit of the Corps an Auxiliary
Fire Service Unit and the Director of Fire Services shall be the Unit
Controller thereof.

3. The principal regulations shall apply to the Auxiliary Fire Service
Unit with the following modifications

(a)members of the Auxiliary Fire Service Unit shall when called
out for active service or under training be deemed to be for all
the purposes of section 10 of the Fire Services Ordinance
members of the Fire Services Department;

(b)any member of the Auxiliary Fire Service Unit who is
authorized by the Unit Controller to take charge of the Unit on
the occasion of a fire shall have all the powers conferred on the
Director of Fire Services under section 10 of the Fire Services
Ordinance;

(c)'training' includes training in extinguishing fires and in
protecting life and property during and after a fire, whether
given on the occasion of a fire or otherwise;

(d)the powers and duties vested in and to be discharged by the
Commissioner under the principal regulations shall so far as
concerns the Auxiliary Fire Service Unit be exercised and
discharged by the Unit Controller:

Provided that for the purpose of giving effect to this
paragraph

(i) regulation 15 of the principal regulations shall be read as
if the words 'on the recommendation of the Commissioner'
had been deleted; and

(ii) paragraph (1) of regulation 16 of the principal regulations
shall be read as if the words 'on the recommendation of the
appropriate Unit or Sub-Unit Controller' had been deleted.



4. For the purpose of assisting the Fire Services Department, the
Director of Fire Services may, on the occasion of a fire or other calamity,
by departmental order call out the Auxiliary Fire Service Unit or any part
or member thereof for active service, and such service shall continue for
the period specified in that order unless a further departmental order is
made by the Director of Fire Services cancelling the first-mentioned
order.
G.N.A. 242/50. L.N. 50/67. Citation. (Cap. 197, sub. leg.) Establishment of Auxiliary Fire Service Unit. Modification of principal regulations. L.N. 50/67. (Cap. 95.) L.N. 50/67. Limited call out by Director of fire Services. L.N. 50/67.

G.N.A. 242/50. L.N. 50/67. Citation. (Cap. 197, sub. leg.) Establishment of Auxiliary Fire Service Unit. Modification of principal regulations. L.N. 50/67. (Cap. 95.) L.N. 50/67. Limited call out by Director of fire Services. L.N. 50/67.

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