### Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission Ordinance 《司法人員推薦委員會條例》

8. Offence of giving false information to Commission
Any person who, in connexion with any matter on which it is the duty of the Commission to advise the Chief Executive under this Ordinance, wilfully gives to the Commission or a member thereof any information which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(Amended 121 of 1997 s. 5; E.R. 2 of 2014)

9. Reports and statements or other communications of Commission privileged
Any report, statement or other communication which the Commission may in the exercise of its functions or the discharge of its duties make to the Chief Executive or to the Chief Justice shall be privileged in that its production may not be compelled in any legal proceedings.
(Amended 121 of 1997 s. 5)

10. Protection to members
A member of the Commission shall have the same protection and privileges in proceedings brought against him for any act done in the execution of his duty as such member as a judge has when acting in the execution of his office.

11. Publication and disclose of information to unauthorized persons prohibited
(1) Any member of the Commission or other person who, without the permission of the Chief Executive, publishes or discloses to any unauthorized person or otherwise than in the course of duty the contents or any part of the contents of any document, communication or information whatsoever which has come to his knowledge in the course of his duties under or in connexion with this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 1 year. (Amended 121 of 1997 s. 5)
(2) If any person having any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in contravention of this section publishes or discloses such information to any other person otherwise than for the purpose of any prosecution under this Ordinance, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2014)

### Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission Ordinance 《司法人員推薦委員會條例》

12. Offence to influence or attempt to influence Commission
Any person who otherwise than in the course of his duty directly or indirectly by himself or by any other person in any manner whatsoever influences or attempts to influence a decision of the Commission or any member shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 2 years:
Provided that this section shall not prohibit—
(a) any person from giving a certificate or testimonial to any applicant or candidate for appointment as a judicial officer or from supplying any information or assistance on request made by the Commission; or
(b) any judicial officer from making representations to the Commission in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed. (Amended 50 of 1990 s. 4)
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2014)

13. Power of Chief Executive in Council to make regulations
(1) The Chief Executive in Council may by regulation provide for— (Amended 121 of 1997 s. 5)
(a) the discharge by the Commission of additional functions;
(b) the time, place and manner of the exercise by the Commission of its functions;
(c) forms and fees in connexion with applications to the Commission, reports or communications from the Commission or any other matter required by or under this Ordinance;
(d) any matter which is to be or may be prescribed.
(2) (Repealed 50 of 1990 s. 5)

14. Amendment of Schedule 1
The Legislative Council may by resolution amend Schedule 1.
(Amended 121 of 1997 s. 10)

### Legal Aid (Scale of Fees) Regulations 《法律援助(費用計算)規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Scale of Fees) Regulations.

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
fixed costs (定額訟費) means fixed costs prescribed by any Ordinance or rules of court as payable to a solicitor;
rules of court (法院規則) means the rules of court made under the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Ordinance (Cap. 484), the High Court Ordinance (Cap. 4) or the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336); (79 of 1995 s. 50; 25 of 1998 s. 2)
taxing master (主理訟費評定事務聆案官) means the officer acting under section 43 of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Ordinance (Cap. 484) or the Registrar of the High Court acting as taxing master, or, in relation to proceedings that have been conducted in the District Court, the Registrar of the District Court acting as taxing master. (79 of 1995 s. 50; 25 of 1998 s. 2)

3. Fee payable for report or opinion under section 9
The fee payable by the Director to counsel or solicitor making a report or giving an opinion under section 9 of the Ordinance shall be such sum as the Director may decide.

4. Fees payable to counsel generally
The fees payable by the Director to counsel acting for an aided person shall be such as may be allowed on taxation or, in default of taxation, as may be fixed by the Director, not exceeding such amount as in the opinion of the Director would have been allowed if there had been taxation.

5. Fees and costs payable to solicitor
The amount payable by the Director to a solicitor acting for an aided person shall be—
(a) the full amount allowed on taxation on account of disbursements;
(b) the full amount allowed on taxation on account of profit costs; and
(c) in cases where fixed costs are applicable and the solicitor has made an election to take fixed costs, the full amount of such fixed costs,
or, in default of taxation or where an election to take fixed costs has not been made, an amount as may be fixed by the Director, not exceeding such amount as in the opinion of the Director would have been allowed if there had been taxation or would have applied if there had been an election to take fixed costs.