ESSENTIAL SERVICES (CIVIL AID SERVICES) CROPS REGULATIONS

ESSENTIAL SERVICES (CIVIL AID SERVICES) CROPS REGULATIONS

ESSENTIAL SERVICES (CIVIL AID SERVICES)

CORPS REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 197, section 7).

[4th January, 1952.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Essential Services (Civil
Aid Services) 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 a Civil Aid
Services Unit and such person as the Governor shall appoint by notice
in the Gazette to be Commissioner, Civil Aid Services shall be Unit
Controller thereof.

3. The principal regulations shall apply to the Civil Aid Services
Unit with the following modifications

(a)the powers and duties vested in and to be discharged by the
Commissioner under the principal regulations shall so far as
concerns the Civil Aid Services 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---onthe recommendation of the
appropriate Unit or Sub-Unit Controller' had been deleted;

(b)'training' includes training in protecting life and property
during or after any hostile attack or during or after any natural
disaster, whether given on the occasion of a hostile attack or
natural disaster or otherwise;

(c)the Unit Controller or other officer in charge of the Unit, when
called out for active service or in training on the occasion of a
natural disaster may take such measures, subject to any
instructions of the Governor, as may appear to him necessary
or expedient to assist in the protection of life and property and
generally for combating the disaster and restricting the
dangers and consequences it occasions. In particular and
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing such Unit
Controller or other officer may

(i) remove or order any member of the Unit to remove any
persons interfering by their presence with the operations of
the Unit;





(ii) by himself or members of the Unit under his
control, assist in break into or through and taking posses-
sion of or blowing up or pulling down any premises;
(iii) assist in directing and controlling traffic, or closing
any streets in the vicinity of any disastrous occurrence, for
such periods as may be deemed necessary:
Provided that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued in derogation of any powers vested in Police Force
or any officer thereof and provided that as soon as con-
veniently may be the Unit Controller or other officer shall
inform the Commissioner of Police of any action taken in
pursuance of this sub-sub-paragraph;
(iv) require any person in the vicinity of any disastrous
occurrence to co-operate with the Unit in any manner,
and any person who refuses to comply with such require-
ment shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty: a fine of five
hundred dollars or imprisonment for three months.

4. For the purposes of these regulations, -natural disaster'
means any act of God and any occurrence whether wholly or partly
caused by human agency or not which the Governor has by any
general or special direction declared to be a natural disaster for
the purposes of these regulations.
G.N.A. 1/52. L.N. 51/67. Citation. (Cap. 197, sub. leg.) Establishment of Civil Aid Services Unit. Modification of principal regulations. L.N. 51/67. L.N. 51/67. Definition of 'natural disaster'.

G.N.A. 1/52. L.N. 51/67. Citation. (Cap. 197, sub. leg.) Establishment of Civil Aid Services Unit. Modification of principal regulations. L.N. 51/67. L.N. 51/67. Definition of 'natural disaster'.

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