### Public Officers Pay Adjustment Ordinance 《公職人員薪酬調整條例》

8. Other public officers
(1) This section applies to a public officer to whom a monthly pay of more than $48,400 is payable immediately before the operative date and who is not a civil servant, an ICAC officer covered by section 6(2) or the Director of Audit.
(2) If the pay payable to the public officer is determinable in accordance with or by reference to, directly or indirectly, a point on a civil service pay scale or on the ICAC pay scale, then from the beginning of the operative date, the pay is to be determined in accordance with or by reference to the dollar value of that point as reduced by section 5(1) or 6(1), as the case requires.
(3) If the pay payable to the public officer is adjustable in accordance with or by reference to, directly or indirectly, adjustments made to a civil service pay scale or the ICAC pay scale, then to the extent that it is so adjustable, on the day of the first adjustment to the pay that is to be made on or after the operative date, the pay is to be adjusted in accordance with or by reference to the rate of adjustments made to that scale by section 5(1) or 6(1), as the case requires, and the pay as so adjusted is payable with effect from the beginning of that day.
(4) If the pay payable to the public officer is determinable and adjustable in accordance with or by reference to, directly or indirectly, a point on a civil service pay scale or on the ICAC pay scale, then from the beginning of the operative date, the pay is to be determined and adjusted in accordance with or by reference to the dollar value of that point as reduced by section 5(1) or 6(1), as the case requires.

9. Allowances determinable in accordance with or by reference to pay point or points
If the amount of an allowance payable to a public officer is determinable in accordance with or by reference to, directly or indirectly, a point, or more than one point, on a civil service pay scale or on the ICAC pay scale, then from the beginning of the operative date and in so far as the allowance is payable for or attributable to any period beginning on or after that date, the amount is to be determined in accordance with or by reference to the dollar value of that point, or those points, as reduced by section 5(1) or 6(1), as the case requires, with the result rounded up to the next dollar.

### Public Officers Pay Adjustment Ordinance 《公職人員薪酬調整條例》

10. Allowances adjustable in accordance with or by reference to pay scale adjustments
(1) If the amount of an allowance payable to a public officer is adjustable in accordance with or by reference to, directly or indirectly, adjustments made to a civil service pay scale or the ICAC pay scale, then to the extent that it is so adjustable, on the day of the first adjustment to the amount of the allowance that is to be made on or after the operative date, the amount is to be adjusted in accordance with or by reference to the rate of adjustments made to that scale by section 5(1) or 6(1), as the case requires, with the result rounded up to the next dollar.
(2) The adjusted allowance is payable with effect from the beginning of the day on which the adjustment is made in so far as it is payable for or attributable to any period beginning on or after that day.

11. Future adjustments
This Ordinance does not prohibit or affect any other adjustment being made to the pay, or to the amount of any allowance, payable to a public officer on or after the operative date or with effect from the operative date or any later date including, for the Director of Audit, by an order made under section 4A of the Audit Ordinance (Cap. 122).

12. Express authority for adjustments
The contract of employment of any public officer is varied so as to expressly authorize the adjustments made by this Ordinance to the pay, or to the amount of any allowance, payable to the public officer.

### Bunker Oil Pollution (Liability and Compensation) Ordinance 《燃油污染(法律責任及補償)條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2014)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Bunker Oil Pollution (Liability and Compensation) Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2014)

### Bunker Oil Pollution (Liability and Compensation) Ordinance 《燃油污染(法律責任及補償)條例》

3. Application of Ordinance
(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), this Ordinance applies to any ship, whether or not within the waters of Hong Kong, including a ship owned or operated by the Government.
(2) This Ordinance does not apply to—
(a) any warship;
(b) any naval auxiliary; or
(c) any other ship that is owned or operated by a state and for the time being used by it only on government non-commercial service.
(3) This Ordinance does not apply in relation to any pollution damage to which the Liability Convention applies.
(4) Neither the Government, nor any public officer in the officer’s capacity as such, is liable to be prosecuted for an offence against this Ordinance.
(5) In subsection (3), Liability Convention (《法律責任公約》) means the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992, as modified by Resolution LEG. 1(82) adopted by the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organization on 18 October 2000.

4. Application of this Part
This Part does not apply in relation to any occurrence that took place before the commencement* of this Part or, if there is a series of occurrences having the same origin and the first of those occurrences took place before the commencement, any of those occurrences.

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 22 January 2010.

5. Liability of shipowners of ships for pollution damage
(1) If, as a result of an incident, any pollution damage is caused in Hong Kong, the shipowner of the ship concerned is liable for the damage caused.
(2) If—
(a) a liability arises under subsection (1); and
(b) the incident also causes any pollution damage in any other Bunker Oil Convention place,
the shipowner of the ship concerned is also liable for the damage caused, and a claim against the shipowner’s liability under this subsection may be brought in the Court as if the damage were caused in Hong Kong.
(3) The shipowner of a ship is not liable under subsection (1) or (2) for any damage attributable to the impairment of the environment unless the damage is—
(a) loss of profits from the impairment of the environment; or
(b) cost of any reasonable measures of reinstatement of the environment actually taken or to be taken.