### Dogs and Cats Ordinance 《貓狗條例》

14. Meetings of the Board
(1) (a) The members of the Board shall elect from amongst themselves a person to act as the Chairman.
(b) If the person elected under paragraph (a) is temporarily precluded by illness or any other cause from exercising his functions as the Chairman for any period, the members of the Board shall elect from amongst themselves another person to act as the Chairman during that period.
(c) At any meeting of the Board—
(i) the person elected under paragraph (a);
(ii) where for the time being another person has been elected to act as the Chairman under paragraph (b), that other person; or
(iii) where the person referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii), as the case may be, is absent, the person elected by the members of the Board present at the meeting from amongst themselves to act as the Chairman,
shall preside at the meeting as the Chairman of the Board.
(2) The Board shall meet at such time and place as may be specified under subsection (3).
(3) (a) Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), the Chairman may at any time convene a meeting of the Board to be held at such time and place as he may specify by notice in writing served on the members of the Board.
(b) Upon requisition in writing of not less than 2 members of the Board, the Chairman shall, not later than 7 days after receipt of the requisition, convene a meeting of the Board to be held at such time and place as he may specify by notice in writing served on the members of the Board.
(c) The Chairman shall, not later than 7 days after receipt of a notice of any application made to the Board under any regulation made under section 3(2)(g), convene a meeting of the Board to be held at such time and place as he may specify by notice in writing served on the members of the Board, so as to determine the application.
(4) The quorum at any meeting of the Board shall be 5 members.
(5) The Board shall not at any of its meetings consist of a majority of members who are public officers, and any public officer acting as a member of the Board shall in exercising his functions as such a member—
(a) act in his personal capacity only; and
(b) not be subject to any direction to which he might otherwise be subject in his capacity as a public officer.
(6) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the proceedings at any meeting of the Board shall be conducted in such manner as the Board may determine.

15. Determination of applications to the Board
Upon an application made to the Board under any regulation made under section 3(2)(g), the Chairman presiding at the meeting of the Board determining the application shall issue a certificate to the person making the application setting out the determination of the Board.

### Dogs and Cats Ordinance 《貓狗條例》

16. Appeals
(1) A person who is aggrieved by—
(a) a decision by a police officer or an authorized officer under section 6(1)(c)(i) or (ii) to destroy a dog of which he is the keeper;
(b) a decision by an authorized officer under section 9 in specifying the place or period of detention under this Ordinance of a dog or cat of which he is the keeper or of any other thing of which he is the owner;
(c) a decision by an authorized officer under section 10 to vary the period of detention under this Ordinance of a dog or cat of which he is the keeper or of any other thing of which he is the owner;
(d) a decision by an authorized officer under section 11(1) to refuse an application for the removal from detention under this Ordinance of a dog or cat of which he is the keeper or of any other thing of which he is the owner;
(e) a decision by the Director under section 11(2) to order the forfeiture of a dog or cat of which he is the keeper or of any other thing of which he is the owner;
(f) a decision by the Director under section 17(2) to impose any condition in granting an exemption in respect of him under section 17,
may, within 28 days after receiving notice of the decision, appeal to the Administrative Appeals Board.
(2) (a) Where there is an appeal under subsection (1)(a), the decision that is appealed against shall be suspended in its operation as from the day on which the appeal is lodged until the appeal has been disposed of, withdrawn or abandoned.
(b) Where there is an appeal under subsection (1)(b) to (f), the appeal shall not affect the operation of the decision that is appealed against, unless the Director decides otherwise and the notice of the decision contains a statement to that effect.

17. Exemption
(1) The Director may, by notice published in the Gazette, exempt any person or class of persons or any dog or class of dogs from the provisions of any regulation made under this Ordinance, whether generally or in a particular case (whether or not by reference to any purpose or any circumstances), where he is satisfied that public and animal safety will not be endangered by such exemption.
(2) An exemption under subsection (1) shall be subject to such conditions, if any, as the Director may specify in the notice published in the Gazette in respect of the exemption pursuant to subsection (1).
(3) A person who contravenes a condition to which an exemption under subsection (1) is subject commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 3 months.

### Dogs and Cats Ordinance 《貓狗條例》

18. General defence
It shall be a defence to a charge in respect of the contravention of any provision of this Ordinance for the person charged to prove—
(a) that the contravention was due to a mistake, an accident or some other cause beyond his control; and
(b) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the contravention.

19. Compensation
(1) Subject to subsection (2), where a dog has been destroyed under section 6(1)(c)(iii), the Director may, where he considers to be just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case, including the conduct and relative blameworthiness of the keeper of the dog, pay to the keeper such sum of money as he thinks fit having regard to the market value of the dog immediately before it was destroyed.
(2) No money shall be payable under this section in respect of a dog in relation to which an offence against any provision of this Ordinance has been committed prior to its destruction.

20. Service of notices, etc.
(1) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a notice or other document required to be served on or given to any person in writing by the Director or an authorized officer under this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been duly served or given, if—
(a) in the case of an individual, it has been—
(i) delivered to him;
(ii) left at his last known address; or
(iii) sent by post to him at his last known address;
(b) in the case of a body corporate, it has been—
(i) delivered to an officer of the body corporate;
(ii) left at the last known address of the body corporate; or 
(iii) sent by post to the body corporate at the last known address of the body corporate;
(c) in the case of a partnership, it has been—
(i) served on or given to any partner who is an individual pursuant to paragraph (a) as if he were an individual under that paragraph; or
(ii) served on or given to any partner which is a body corporate pursuant to paragraph (b) as if it were a body corporate under that paragraph.
(2) For the purposes of section 16, a notice published in the Gazette pursuant to section 17 shall be deemed to be served on any person lodging an appeal under section 16 on the date of publication of the notice in the Gazette.

21. Saving
Any regulation made under section 3 immediately before the commencement of the Dogs and Cats (Amendment) Ordinance 1997 (97 of 1997) (amending Ordinance