These regulations set up an Auxiliary Fire Service Unit, assign the Director of Fire Services as its Unit Controller, and let the Director call out the unit for active service during a fire or other calamity.
Essential Services (Auxiliary Fire Service) Corps Regulations(Cap. 197, section 7) [3 November 1950](Format changes—E.R. 5 of 2020) 1. Citation 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 (Cap. 197 sub. leg. A), hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations.(E.R. 5 of 2020) 2. Establishment of Auxiliary Fire Service Unit 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. Modification of principal regulations 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 (Cap. 95) members of the Fire Services Department; (L.N. 50 of 1967)(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 (Cap. 95);(c) training (訓練) 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; (L.N. 50 of 1967) (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. Limited call out by Director of Fire Services 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.(L.N. 50 of 1967)