Essential Services Corps (Identity Cards) Regulations
[6 February 1953]
(Format changes—E.R. 1 of 2024)
These regulations may be cited as the Essential Services Corps (Identity Cards) Regulations.
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
identity card (身分證) means an identity card issued or deemed to be issued under regulation 3; Unit Controller (單位總監) and Member of the Corps (服務團團員) have the same meaning as in the Essential Services Corps (General) Regulations (Cap. 197 sub. leg. A). (E.R. 1 of 2024)A Unit Controller may issue to a member of the Corps an identity card, on the face whereof shall appear the words “This card is issued under the Essential Services Corps (Identity Cards) Regulations, and attention is called to the penalties provided for offences in relation to this card”.
A Unit Controller may withdraw or cancel an identity card at any time.
Any person other than a Unit Controller or person authorized by him, whether a member of the Corps or not, who—
makes any alteration to an identity card;
sells, gives, lends, buys or borrows an identity card;
uses an identity card issued to another person;
uses an identity card for purposes other than the purposes authorized by the Unit Controller;
fails to exercise care for the safe keeping of an identity card issued to him,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine at level 1 or to imprisonment for three months.
Identity cards issued by a Unit Controller prior to the commencement* of these regulations shall be deemed to have been issued under regulation 3.