### High Court Ordinance 《高等法院條例》

57. Suitors’ Funds Rules
(Replaced 20 of 2014 s. 23)(1) The Chief Judge of the High Court may make rules for regulating— (Amended 10 of 2005 s. 11)
(a) the deposit, payment, delivery, and transfer in, into, and out of the High Court of money, securities, and movable property of suitors; (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
(b) the evidence of such deposit, payment, delivery, or transfer, and the investment of and other dealings with money, securities, and movable property in court;
(c) the execution of the orders of the High Court; and (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
(d) the powers and duties of the Registrar with reference to such money, securities, and property.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, rules made under this section may provide for—
(a) regulating the placing on and withdrawal from deposit of money in court, and the payment or crediting of interest on money placed on deposit;
(b) determining the smallest amount of money on deposit on which interest is to be credited to an account to which money placed on deposit belongs;
(c) determining the time at which money placed on deposit is to begin and to cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such interest;
(d) determining the cases in which money placed on deposit is to begin and to cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such interest;
(e) determining the cases in which interest on money placed on deposit and the dividends on any securities standing in the name of the Registrar is or are to be placed on deposit; and
(f) disposing of money remaining unclaimed in court. (Amended 20 of 2014 s. 23)
(3) In this section—
securities (證券) includes shares;
suitors (訴訟人) includes any party to arbitral proceedings who makes payment of money into the Court of First Instance in accordance with rules of court. (Replaced 20 of 2014 s. 23)

59. Amendment of references in laws to Full Court and High Court
In any law, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) for any reference to the Full Court, there shall be substituted a reference to the Court of Appeal;
(b) for any reference to the High Court, there shall be substituted a reference to the Court of First Instance; and
(c) any reference to a judge or officer of the Full Court or the High Court shall be construed as a reference to a judge or officer of the Court of Appeal and the Court of First Instance, respectively.
(Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)

### Allowances to Jurors Order 《陪審員津貼令》

1. Citation
This order may be cited as the Allowances to Jurors Order.

2. Allowances to jurors
(1) The allowance payable under section 31(1) of the Ordinance to a person who serves as a juror is $930 in respect of each day during the whole or part of which the person serves as a juror. (L.N. 170 of 2012)
(2) The rate of allowance prescribed for the purpose of section 31(3) of the Ordinance is $930 in respect of each day during the whole or part of which the person serves as a juror. (L.N. 170 of 2012)
(L.N. 205 of 1978; L.N. 129 of 1984; L.N. 481 of 1993; L.N. 61 of 1996; L.N. 240 of 2008; L.N. 29 of 2015; L.N. 27 of 2017; L.N. 27 of 2019; L.N. 51 of 2021)

### Jury Ordinance 《陪審團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Jury Ordinance.
(Amended 5 of 1924 s. 6)

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
Commissioner (處長) has the same meaning as in the Registration of Persons Ordinance (Cap. 177); (Replaced 37 of 1988 s. 2)
court (法庭) means the Court of First Instance; (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
proceedings (法律程序) means proceedings at a trial in the court or at an inquest under the Coroners Ordinance (Cap. 504); (Added 72 of 1997 s. 2. Amended 21 of 1999 s. 21)
Registrar (司法常務官) means the Registrar of the High Court. (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
(Added 5 of 1924 Schedule)

3. Number of jurors on trial
In all civil and criminal trials and in all inquiries into the idiocy, lunacy, or unsoundness of mind of any person, the jury, if any, shall consist of 7 persons except where the court or the judge before whom any such trial or inquiry is or may be heard, orders that the jury shall consist of 9 persons.
(Amended 37 of 1947 s. 2; 3 of 1986 s. 2)

### Jury Ordinance 《陪審團條例》

4. Qualifications and disabilities
(1) A person who has reached 21 years of age, but not 65 years of age, and is a resident of Hong Kong is, except as provided by this Ordinance, liable to serve as a juror in the proceedings in the court or in an inquest under the Coroners Ordinance (Cap. 504) if (but only if)— (Amended 21 of 1999 s. 22)
(a) the person is of sound mind and not afflicted by blindness, deafness or other disability preventing the person from serving as a juror; and
(b) the person is of good character; and
(c) the person has a sufficient knowledge of the language in which the proceedings are to be conducted to be able to understand the proceedings.
(2) In a trial before a jury, the court or a coroner may, on the court or the coroner’s own motion or on the application of the Registrar or of any interested party, discharge any person summoned to serve as a juror who is unable to satisfy the court or the coroner that the person’s knowledge of the language in which the proceedings are to be conducted is sufficient to enable the person to understand the proceedings.
(Replaced 72 of 1997 s. 3)