### Lloyds Bank (Merger) Ordinance 《英國勞合銀行(合併)條例》

5. Trust property and wills
(1) Any property deemed to be vested in Lloyds by virtue of this Ordinance which immediately before the appointed day was held by LBI, whether alone or jointly with any other person, as trustee or custodian trustee of any trust deed, settlement, covenant, agreement or will (whether originally so appointed or not, and whether appointed under hand or seal, or by order of any court), or as executor of the will, or administrator of the estate, of a deceased person or as judicial trustee appointed by order of any court, or in any other fiduciary capacity, shall, on and from the appointed day, be held by Lloyds alone or, as the case may be, jointly with such other person, in the same capacity upon the trusts, and with and subject to the powers, provisions and liabilities, applicable thereto respectively.
(2) Any existing instrument or order of any court under or by virtue of which (whether alone or by the operation of the Lloyds & Bolsa International Bank Act 1972 (1972 c. vi U.K.)) any property became vested in LBI in any such fiduciary capacity as is referred to in subsection (1) (including in the case of a will any grant of probate thereof), and any provision in such instrument or order, or any existing contract or arrangement, for the payment to, or retention by, LBI of remuneration for its services in any such fiduciary capacity, shall, on and from the appointed day, be construed and have effect, so far as the context permits, as if for any reference therein (whether original or by the operation of the Lloyds & Bolsa International Bank Act 1972 (1972 c. vi U.K.)) to LBI, other than a reference (however worded and whether express or implied) to terms and conditions of LBI or to a scale of fees of LBI, there were substituted a reference to Lloyds.
(3) No testamentary gift shall be adeemed by reason only of the operation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance.

### Lloyds Bank (Merger) Ordinance 《英國勞合銀行(合併)條例》

7. Contracts of employment
(1) Section 6(a) shall apply to a contract for the employment of any person by LBI; and employment with LBI and Lloyds under any such contract shall be deemed for all purposes to be a single continuing employment.
(2) No director, secretary or auditor of LBI shall by virtue only of this Ordinance become a director, secretary or, as the case may be, auditor of Lloyds.

8. Pensions
(1) The trust deeds and rules constituting or relating to the fund established in Hong Kong and known as the Lloyds Bank International Limited Staff Provident Fund shall, on and from the appointed day, be construed and have effect, so far as the context permits, as if for any reference therein to LBI there were substituted a reference to Lloyds.
(2) No officer or employee of LBI who becomes an officer or employee of Lloyds by virtue of this Ordinance shall by virtue of this Ordinance be entitled to participate in any pension fund of Lloyds, and no existing officer or employee of Lloyds shall, by virtue of this Ordinance, be entitled to participate in any pension fund of LBI or the Lloyds Bank International Limited Staff Provident Fund.

9. Evidence: books and documents
(1) All books and other documents which would, before the appointed day, have been evidence in respect of any matter for or against LBI shall be admissible in evidence in respect of the same matter for or against Lloyds.
(2) In this section documents (文件) has the same meaning as in section 46 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8). (Amended 2 of 1999 s. 6)

10. Part III of Evidence Ordinance
(1) On and from the appointed day Part III of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8) shall apply to the banker’s records of LBI deemed to be vested in Lloyds by virtue of this Ordinance, and to entries made in those records before the appointed day, as if such records were the records of Lloyds.
(2) For the purposes of section 20 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8), banker’s records which are deemed to have become the banker’s records of Lloyds by virtue of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been the ordinary banker’s records of Lloyds at the time of the making of any entry therein which purports to have been made before the appointed day, and any such entry shall be deemed to have been made in the usual and ordinary course of business.
(3) In this section banker’s records (銀行紀錄) shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8).

### Lloyds Bank (Merger) Ordinance 《英國勞合銀行(合併)條例》

11. Evidence of vesting
(1) The production of a Government Printer’s copy of this Ordinance shall, for all purposes, be conclusive evidence of the vesting of any property and liabilities of LBI in Lloyds in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1)—
(a) any document made or executed on or after the appointed day, whereby Lloyds or LBI, whether alone or jointly with any other person, conveys or transfers, or purports to convey or transfer, to any person (whether for consideration or not), or applies to be registered as the holder or proprietor of, any property held by LBI immediately before the appointed day, whether alone or jointly with any other person, shall be sufficient evidence that the interest of LBI in that property—
(i) in the case of such a document referring to the property as property held by Lloyds, is deemed to be vested in Lloyds under this Ordinance; and
(ii) in the case of such a document referring to the property as property held by LBI, is not deemed to be vested in Lloyds under this Ordinance;
(b) where there is any other transaction by Lloyds or LBI on or after the appointed day in connection with, or in relation to, any property or liabilities which are property or liabilities of LBI immediately before that day, it shall be deemed in favour of any other party to the transaction, or any person claiming through or under him, that Lloyds or, as the case may be, LBI has full power and authority for that transaction as if—
(i) in the case of a transaction by Lloyds, the property or liabilities were deemed to be vested in it under this Ordinance; and
(ii) in the case of a transaction by LBI, the property or liabilities were not deemed to be vested in Lloyds under this Ordinance;
(c) a joint certificate given by or on behalf of LBI and Lloyds, whether given before, on or after the appointed day, that any property or liabilities specified in the certificate is or is not at the date so specified deemed to be vested in Lloyds under this Ordinance, shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes of the fact so certified;
(d) nothing in paragraphs (b) and (c) affects the liability of LBI or Lloyds to the other of them in respect of anything done, or purporting to have been done, by either of them in connection with, or in relation to, any property or liabilities;
(e) in this section convey (轉易) includes mortgage, charge, lease, assent, vest by way of vesting declaration or vesting instrument, disclaim, release or otherwise assure.