### Patents Ordinance 《專利條例》

152. Forfeited articles
Nothing in this Ordinance affects the right of the Government or any person deriving title directly or indirectly from the Government to dispose of or use articles forfeited under the law relating to customs or excise.
[cf. 1977 c. 37 s. 122 U.K.]

153. Amendment of Schedule 1
The Chief Executive in Council may by order published in the Gazette— (Amended 22 of 1999 s. 3)
(a) add to Schedule 1 the name of—
(i) any country which has acceded to the Paris Convention;
(ii) any country, territory or area which has acceded to the World Trade Organisation Agreement;
(b) delete from the Schedule 1 the name of—
(i) any country which has denounced the Paris Convention;
(ii) any country, territory or area which has denounced the World Trade Organisation Agreement; and (Amended 2 of 2001 s. 13)
(c) otherwise amend Schedule 1. (Added 2 of 2001 s. 13)

154. Repeal
(1) The Registration of Patents Ordinance (Cap. 42) is repealed.
(2) The repeal effected by subsection (1) is subject to the following provisions of this Part.

155. Validity of instruments made or things done under the repealed Ordinance
Insofar as any instrument made or other thing done at any time under any provision of the repealed Ordinance could have been made or done under a corresponding provision of this Ordinance it shall not be invalidated by the repeals made by this Ordinance but shall have effect as if made or done under that corresponding provision.

156. Use of patented inventions for service of the Crown
(1) Section 7G of the repealed Ordinance (which deals with the question of acts done by the Government as constituting the use of an invention for the services of the Crown, and payment falling to be made in respect of any such use) as it applied immediately before the commencement date shall continue in force.
(2) For ease of reference, section 7G of the repealed Ordinance as applying for the purposes of subsection (1) is set out in Schedule 2.
(3) Where a patent for an invention has been granted under this Ordinance pursuant to this Part to the proprietor of an existing registered patent for that invention, or to the applicant of a pending application for registration of a patent for that invention under the repealed Ordinance, sections 69 to 72 shall apply to Government use of such invention during any period of extreme urgency declared under section 68, subject to any necessary modifications. 

### Patents Ordinance 《專利條例》

157. Infringement
(1) Any question whether an act done before the commencement date infringes an existing registered patent shall be determined in accordance with the law relating to infringement in force immediately before the commencement date, and sections 6 and 7 of the repealed Ordinance shall apply accordingly.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) and to necessary modification—
(a) sections 73 to 75, 80, 81, 85 to 87, 89 and 90 shall apply to any act done on or after the commencement date which infringes an existing registered patent; and 
(b) sections 82 to 84 shall apply to any such act which infringes an existing registered 1977 Act patent, 
as those sections apply to infringements of a patent granted under this Ordinance.
(3) Where an act is commenced before the commencement date and continues to be done on or after that date then if that act would not, under the law in force immediately before that day, amount to an infringement of an existing registered patent for an invention it shall not amount to an infringement of any patent for that invention which may be granted under this Ordinance pursuant to this Part.

### Transfer of Sentenced Persons Ordinance 《移交被判刑人士條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 1 of 2019)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 1 of 2019)

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
arrangements for the transfer of sentenced persons (移交被判刑人士的安排) means arrangements—
(a) which are applicable to—
(i) the Government and the government of a place outside the People’s Republic of China; or
(ii) Hong Kong and a place outside the People’s Republic of China; or
(iii) the Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region and the Government; and (Added 13 of 2005 s. 3)
(b) for the purposes of— (Amended 13 of 2005 s. 3)
(i) the transfer of a sentenced person or sentenced persons to Hong Kong from that place or from Macau; or
(ii) the transfer of a sentenced person or sentenced persons to that place or to Macau from Hong Kong; (Amended 13 of 2005 s. 3)

court (法院) includes a magistrate, tribunal and any other judicial authority of Hong Kong or a place outside Hong Kong;
institution (機構) includes a prison, hospital and reception centre;
inward warrant (移交入境手令) means a warrant issued under section 3(1)(a);
outward warrant (移交出境手令) means a warrant issued under section 3(1)(b);
sentence (刑、刑罰) means any punishment or measure involving the deprivation of liberty ordered by a court—
(a) for a limited, unlimited or indeterminate period of time; and (Amended 32 of 2000 s. 24)
(b) in the course of the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction;

sentenced person (被判刑人士) means a person who is required to be detained in an institution to serve a sentence.

3. Issue of warrant, etc.
(1) Subject to section 4, the Chief Executive may, pursuant to any arrangements for the transfer of sentenced persons, issue a warrant in the form specified in Schedule 1 providing for the transfer of a sentenced person—
(a) into Hong Kong from the place outside Hong Kong to which those arrangements are applicable; or
(b) to the place outside Hong Kong to which those arrangements are applicable.
(2) The Chief Executive may, by notice in the Gazette, amend Schedule 1.
(Amended 15 of 1999 s. 3)