### Employees’ Compensation (Rules of Court) Rules 《僱員補償(法院規則)規則》

17. Procedure after lodging application
(1) As soon as an application, together with the accompanying particulars and statements required by rule 16, has been lodged, the registrar of the court shall cause a copy thereof to be served upon the respondent together with a notice in Form 4 in the Schedule informing the respondent that he must lodge with the registrar of the court such an answer as set out in paragraph (2) within the period therein stated, and that in default of his complying with that paragraph or of his appearing at a time and place fixed in the notice, such order may be made as the court deems just and expedient. Save with the written consent of the respondent communicated to the registrar of the court, not less than 1 month shall elapse between the date of the service of the notice upon the respondent and the date fixed for hearing the application.
(2) If the respondent intends to oppose an application he shall, within 21 days after service of the notice, or within such extended period as the court may upon special request allow, lodge with the registrar a written answer in Form 5 in the Schedule containing a concise statement of the extent and grounds of his opposition.
(3) The court may, at any time before the determination of the question in dispute and upon such terms as to adjournment or as to costs as may be deemed just, allow an application, or any particulars or statement accompanying the same, or any answer thereto, to be amended. Any such amendment shall be lodged with the registrar of the court who shall forthwith cause it to be served upon the opposite party.

### Employees’ Compensation (Rules of Court) Rules 《僱員補償(法院規則)規則》

18. Request for further particulars
(1) The respondent may, not later than 14 days after he has received notice of application, serve on the applicant a request in writing in Form 6 in the Schedule for further particulars of the grounds upon which the application is made, specifying in such request the questions as to which he desires to have information; and the applicant may, not later than 14 days after he has received the answer to the application, serve on the respondent a request in writing for similar particulars of the grounds upon which the application is opposed.
(2) A copy of any such request shall forthwith be lodged with the registrar of the court by the party making the request, and a copy of a reply thereto shall forthwith be lodged with the registrar of the court by the party making the reply.
(3) If the party so requested to furnish particulars fails to do within 14 days from the date of service of the request aforesaid and in consequence of such failure it is necessary to adjourn the hearing of the application, the court may order that the costs occasioned by such adjournment shall be paid by the party so in default. The court may disallow, with costs, any request for particulars which appears to the court to be unnecessary or vexatious. The court may award against the party making a request for particulars the costs of the replies thereto.

19. Amendments
Where an applicant wishes to amend his application or any particulars or statement accompanying it, or where a respondent wishes to amend his answer to an application, the party wishing to make such amendment shall forthwith lodge with the registrar of the court a statement in writing of such amendment, and shall at the same time serve a copy thereof upon the other party or parties to the proceedings.

20. Payment into court
(1) A respondent from whom compensation is claimed may pay into court a sum which is considered by him to be sufficient to cover his liability.
(2) If no greater compensation be awarded than the sum of money which the respondent has paid into court, the court may order that any costs incurred by such respondent, after payment by him into court of the said sum of money, shall be paid by the applicant.

21. Copies to be furnished
The parties shall lodge with the registrar of the court such copies of documents as are required to be served by the registrar of the court on the other party to the application or to be sent to him.

### Employees’ Compensation (Rules of Court) Rules 《僱員補償(法院規則)規則》

22. Procedure where sub-contractor desires to intervene
(1) Where a principal contractor has given notice (such notice to be in Form 10 in the Schedule) to a sub-contractor of a claim or application for compensation made against the principal contractor, and the sub-contractor desires to intervene, he shall forthwith lodge with the registrar of the court a notice in Form 11 in the Schedule that he so intervenes and shall forthwith serve copies of such notice of intervention upon the applicant and the principal contractor. The sub-contractor shall thereupon be entitled to make copies of the application and of any other document then lodged with the registrar of the court in connection with the application.
(2) A sub-contractor who has so lodged with the registrar of the court notice that he intervenes shall lodge an answer to the application within 14 days after service upon him of the said notice given by the principal contractor or within such further time as the court may on application allow.
(3) The court may, on the hearing of the application, either order that such person be made a respondent if the court is satisfied that he is entitled so to intervene, or may refuse to make him a respondent and order him to pay the costs incurred by his intervention if satisfied that he is not entitled so to intervene.
(L.N. 227 of 1983)

23. Disputing sub-contractor to appear before court
If any person served with a notice as a sub-contractor desires to dispute the applicant’s claim or his own liability to the principal contractor he shall appear before the court; and in default of his so doing he shall be deemed to admit the validity of any order against the principal contractor whether such order is made by consent or otherwise, and his own liability to indemnify the principal contractor to the extent claimed in the notice served on him by the principal contractor.
(L.N. 227 of 1983)

### Employees’ Compensation (Rules of Court) Rules 《僱員補償(法院規則)規則》

24. Interested party may be joined
(1) The court may at any stage of the proceedings, upon request made to it or of its own motion, order that any person appearing to be interested be joined in the proceedings.
(2) A person requesting such an order shall lodge with the registrar of the court a notice of the request in writing and shall forthwith serve a copy of the notice upon the parties or the other party to the proceedings, as the case may be. (L.N. 229 of 1986)
(3) Unless the court gives leave to the contrary, the copy of the notice required by paragraph (2) shall be served at least 2 clear days before the date named in the notice for hearing the request. (L.N. 229 of 1986)
(4) Where the court refuses to make the order requested it may order the person making the request to pay the costs incurred by his request. (L.N. 229 of 1986)

25. Medical and funeral expenses
(1) An application to determine the reimbursement payable in respect of the expenses of medical attendance on or the funeral of a deceased employee shall be made by any person who has paid the expenses and any other person known to the applicant to be a person who has paid the expenses shall be joined in the application either as applicant or as respondent.
(2) Where the amount awarded by the court on such applications is insufficient to reimburse such expenses in full, it shall be apportioned between the persons to whom such reimbursement are payable on a pro rata basis.
(52 of 2000 s. 36)

26. Periodical payments
Where in any application or matter the court orders compensation to be periodical payments in accordance with the provisions of section 10 of the Ordinance such order shall be in Form 7 in the Schedule.

27. Application to make a certificate as to compensation payable an order of the court
An application in accordance with the provisions of section 6C(14), 6D(9), 6E(14) or 16A(8) of the Ordinance shall be in Form 3 of the Schedule of the Employees’ Compensation Regulations (Cap. 282 sub. leg. A).
(L.N. 227 of 1983; 36 of 1996 s. 31; 52 of 2000 s. 37)

28. Application for review
Any application for review made under the provisions of section 19 of the Ordinance shall be in Form 8 in the Schedule, and any order made in consequence of such review shall be in Form 9 in the said Schedule.