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(3) Any person who, not being a member, wears, without permission of the Director, the uniform of the Fire Services Department, or any dress having the appearance or bearing any of the distinctive marks of that uniform, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended, 42 of 1961, s. 2, and 29 of 1975, s. 19)
28. Any person who gives or causes to be given an alarm of fire or other calamity which he knows to be false to the Fire Services Department or to any member shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of $1,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(Added, 17 of 1959, s. 2. Amended, 42 of 1961, s. 2, and 29 of 1975, s. 20)
False alarms
of fire.
FIRST SCHEDULE
Offences against discipline
[s. 12.]
Any member commits an offence against discipline who----
(1) is guilty of cowardice in the performance of his duty;
(2) without good and sufficient cause fails to carry out any lawful order,
whether written or verbal;
(3) is insubordinate towards any member whose orders it is his duty to obey;
(4) (a) neglects or without good and sufficient cause fails to do, promptly and
diligently, anything it is his duty to do;
(b) by carelessness or neglect in the performance of his duty contributes to the occurrence of any loss, damage or injury to any person or property;
(5) knowingly makes any false, misleading, or inaccurate statement in connexion with his duty either verbally or in writing;
(6) with intent to deceive destroys any official record, document or book or
alters or erases any entry therein;
(7) without proper authority-
(a) divulges any matter which it is his duty to keep secret;
(b) directly or indirectly communicates to the press or to any other person any matter which may have come to his knowledge in the course of his official duties;
(c) publishes any matter or makes any public pronouncement relating to
the Fire Services Department; (Amended, 42 of 1961, s. 2)
(8) (a) solicits or receives any unauthorized fee, gratuity or other consideration in connexion with his duties as a member;
(b) fails to account for, or to make a prompt and true return of, any money or property for which he is responsible, either in connexion with his duties as a member or with any fund connected with the Fire Services Department or the Fire Services Department staff; (Amended, 42 of 1961, s. 2)
(c) improperly uses his position as a member;
(9) without proper authority or reasonable excuse--
(a) absents himself from duty or from any place of parade;
(b) arrives late for any duty or parade;