He is second in line to the British throne and also a Royal Air Force search-and-rescue pilot. Which means that Prince William, unfortunately, is not eligible for jury service in Hong Kong.
Statutes and ordinances often raise a smile, since many have not been updated since the handover.
The Hong Kong Jury Ordinance is one of these. It states that exemptions from jury service include 'officers employed on full pay in the naval, military and air services of Her Majesty'.
Prince William's new wife Kate will also miss out, as another exemption is for 'spouses of members of the Armed Forces of Her Majesty serving on full pay'. These two instances are also listed in the Chinese translation of jury-service exemptions.
An asterisk does appear beside each of the above exemptions. Under the heading 'amendments retroactively made' is the statement that any reference in any provision to 'Her Majesty, the Crown, the British Government or the Secretary of State (or to similar names, terms or expressions) ... shall be construed as a reference to the Central People's government or other competent authorities of the People's Republic of China'.
While these are light-hearted examples of the government's failure to update laws promptly, others are not so funny. Take the ordinance that was declared unconstitutional in the groundbreaking 2005 case of William Leung. It overturned Section 118 (c) of the Crimes Ordinance, which made it a crime punishable with life imprisonment for homosexual male couples under 21 to engage in gay sex.