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section (1) of section 16 of the Royal Hong Kong Defence
Force Ordinance or the unit or part of the Force to
which such member or officer belongs, or such member
or officer, has been called out under subsection (1)
of section 17 of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force
Ordinance;
(h)
any person, whether or not he is a member of the
Essential Services Corps, in possession of a valid
warrant signed by the Commissioner of the Essential
Services Corps and certifying that such person is
engaged on essential duties; and
(i) any servant of the Crown, other than a public officer,
in possession of a permit issued by the Commissioner
of Police for the purposes of this paragraph,
(7) Whenever the Governor considers it necessary, a curfew order may provide that subsection (6) shall not apply in the case
of that curfew order with respect to such of the persons specified
in that subsection as may be prescribed by the curfew order.
Carrying
offensive
weapons during
curfew.
32.
(1) Any person who, without lawful authority, carries
or has in his possession in any area in which a curfew order is in
force and during the hours during which the curfew imposed thereby
is operative any offensive weapon shall be guilty of an offence
and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five
thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three years.
(2) A person shall not be convicted of an offence under
this section if he proves to the satisfaction of the court that
he carried or had in his possession the offensive weapon
(a) solely for domestic or defensive purposes within