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10. Every person who, at the date of the commencement of this Ordinance, is a member of the Essential Services Wing of the Hong Kong Auxiliary Force of the Hong Kong Defence Force shall be deemed to be a member of the Corps unless he elects to continue to serve in the Hong Kong Defence Force.

11. (1) Every person, not being a member of the Corps who—
 * (a) has in his possession any article being part of the clothing, accoutrements or appointments supplied to any member of the Corps and is not able satisfactorily to account for his possession thereof;
 * (b) puts on the dress or takes the name, designation or character of any member of the Corps for the purpose of thereby obtaining admission into any house or other place or of doing or procuring to be done any act which any such member would be entitled to do or procure to be done of his own authority, or for any other unlawful purpose;

shall, in addition to any other punishment to which he may be liable for such offence, be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for a term of two years.

(2) If any person knowingly buys or takes in exchange or in pawn from any member of the Corps or any person acting on his behalf, or solicits or entices any such member to sell or pawn any article being part of the clothing, accoutrements or appointments supplied to any member of the Corps, such person shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for a term of two years. SCHEDULE The administration of government,

The administration of justice,

The administration of the prisons,

The control and operation of civil aviation,

The dissemination of information to the public,

The extraction and distribution of coal-gas,

The generation and distribution of electricity,

The maintenance of facilities for banking and public finance.