### Apprenticeship Ordinance 《學徒制度條例》

47. Regulations
(1) The Director, with the approval of the Commissioner, may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes— (Amended 13 of 1982 s. 10)
(a) prescribing the terms and conditions to be included in a contract of apprenticeship in a designated trade;
(b) prescribing the period of probation to be served by apprentices in designated trades and the termination of contracts of apprenticeship during the period of probation;
(c) prescribing the minimum standard of education required to be attained by persons as a pre-requisite to their employment as apprentices in designated trades;
(d) prescribing the hours of employment of registered apprentices;
(e) providing for the frequency and manner of payment of wages to registered apprentices;
(f) providing for the medical examination of apprentices in designated trades;
(g) providing for the registration of contracts of apprenticeship and other matters which are required to be registered under this Ordinance and the maintaining of the register;
(h) prescribing any thing which is to be or may be prescribed under this Ordinance;
(i) generally for the better carrying out of the provisions and purposes of this Ordinance.
(1A)  The Director, with the approval of the Commissioner, may in writing, in such cases as he thinks fit and for such period and subject to such conditions as he may specify, exempt any person or class of persons from any regulations made under this section. (Added 27 of 1984 s. 2)
(2) Any regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of specified provisions thereof shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor not exceeding a fine at level 2. (Amended E.R. 1 of 2013)
(3) All regulations made under subsection (1) shall be submitted to the Chief Executive and shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council. (Amended 54 of 2000 s. 3)

### Apprenticeship Ordinance 《學徒制度條例》

48. Application of the Employment Ordinance
The following provisions of the Employment Ordinance (Cap. 57) shall mutatis mutandis, and subject to any specific provisions to the contrary contained in this Ordinance or in a contract of apprenticeship, apply to employers, registered apprentices and registered contracts of apprenticeship under this Ordinance—
(aa) Part IIA (End of year payment); (Added 48 of 1984 s. 34)
(a) Part IVA (Protection against anti-union discrimination);
(b) Part V (Payment of wages);
(c) Part VI (Deductions from wages);
(d) Part VII (Sickness allowance);
(e) Part VIII (Holidays with pay);
(ea) Part VIIIA (Annual leave with pay); (Added 43 of 1980 s. 6)
(f) Part IX (Ancillary provisions relating to sickness allowance and holidays and annual leave with pay); (Amended 34 of 1991 s. 9)
(g) Part IXA (Liability to pay wages of sub-contractor’s and nominated sub-contractor’s employees); and (Added 43 of 1980 s. 6)
(h) Part XIII (Offences and penalties). (Added 43 of 1980 s. 6)

### Foreign Judgments (Restriction on Recognition and Enforcement) Ordinance 《外地判決(限制承認及強制執行)條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Judgments (Restriction on Recognition and Enforcement) Ordinance.

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
court (法院), in relation to an overseas country, includes any tribunal or person having power to make, confirm, enforce, vary or revoke a maintenance order as defined in section 2 of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance (Cap. 188);
judgment (判決) means any judgment or order (by whatever name called) given or made by a court in any civil proceedings;
overseas country (海外國家) means any place outside Hong Kong.

### Foreign Judgments (Restriction on Recognition and Enforcement) Ordinance 《外地判決(限制承認及強制執行)條例》

3. Overseas judgments given in breach of agreement for settlement of disputes
(1) Subject to this section, a judgment given by a court of an overseas country in any proceedings shall not be recognized or enforced in Hong Kong if—
(a) the bringing of those proceedings in that court was contrary to an agreement under which the dispute in question was to be settled otherwise than by proceedings in the courts of that country; and
(b) the person against whom the judgment was given—
(i) did not bring or agree to the bringing of those proceedings in that court; and
(ii) did not counter-claim in the proceedings or otherwise submit to the jurisdiction of the court.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply where the agreement referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection was illegal, void or unenforceable or was incapable of being performed for reasons not attributable to the fault of the party bringing the proceedings in which the judgment was given.
(3) In determining whether a judgment given by a court of an overseas country should be recognized or enforced in Hong Kong, the court in Hong Kong shall not be bound by any decision of the court of the overseas country relating to any of the matters mentioned in subsection (1) or (2).
(4) Nothing in subsection (1) shall affect the recognition or enforcement in Hong Kong of a judgment to which the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance (Cap. 319) applies—
(a) by virtue of section 10(4) of the Nuclear Material (Liability for Carriage) Ordinance (Cap. 479); (Amended 45 of 1995 s. 16; 14 of 2009 s. 38)
(b) by virtue of section 18(2) or 27(3) of the Merchant Shipping (Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution) Ordinance (Cap. 414); or (Replaced 38 of 1990 s. 32(2). Amended 14 of 2009 s. 38)
(c) by virtue of section 21 of the Bunker Oil Pollution (Liability and Compensation) Ordinance (Cap. 605). (Added 14 of 2009 s. 38)
[cf. 1982 c. 27 s. 32 U.K.]

### Foreign Judgments (Restriction on Recognition and Enforcement) Ordinance 《外地判決(限制承認及強制執行)條例》

4. Certain steps not to amount to submission to jurisdiction of overseas court
For the purposes of determining whether a judgment given by a court of an overseas country should be recognized or enforced in Hong Kong, the person against whom the judgment was given shall not be treated as having submitted to the jurisdiction of the court by reason only of the fact that he appeared (conditionally or otherwise) in the proceedings for any of the following purposes—
(a) to contest the jurisdiction of the court;
(b) to ask the court to dismiss or stay the proceedings on the ground that the dispute in question should be submitted to arbitration or to the determination of the courts of another country;
(c) to protect, or obtain the release of, property seized or threatened with seizure in the proceedings.
[cf. 1982 c. 27 s. 33 U.K.]

5. Certain foreign judgments a bar to proceedings on the same cause of action
(1) No proceedings may be brought by a person in Hong Kong on a cause of action in respect of which a judgment has been given in his favour in proceedings between the same parties, or their privies, in a court of an overseas country, unless that judgment is not enforceable or entitled to recognition in Hong Kong.
(2) This section shall not apply to judgments given before the commencement* of this Ordinance.
[cf. 1982 c. 27 s. 34 U.K.] Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 28 June 1985.

6. Consequential and transitional
(1) The Ordinances specified in the Schedule (the amended Ordinances

### Insurance Ordinance 《保險業條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Insurance Ordinance.
(Amended 12 of 2015 s. 4)