### Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden Corporation Ordinance 《嘉道理農場暨植物園公司條例》

12. Corporation to be vested with land, etc.
(1) The property described in the Schedule currently vested in or belonging to the Association or the Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Association (as specified in the Schedule) is as from the date of commencement* of this Ordinance transferred to and vested in the same interest in the Corporation without any further assurance and the Corporation shall have the powers necessary to take possession of, recover and obtain the benefit of the property.
(2) The Corporation shall register or cause to be registered a Government Printer’s copy of this Ordinance in the Land Registry for the transfer of the property in accordance with the Land Registration Ordinance (Cap. 128).
(3) In addition to the property referred to in subsection (1), the rights, obligations and liabilities of the Trustees and the Association and relating to the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance are, as from the date of commencement, the rights, obligations and liabilities of the Corporation and the Corporation shall have the powers necessary to exercise and discharge them (as the case may be).
(4) No stamp duty is payable on the transfer of property under this section.

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 20 January 1995.

13. References in documents to the Trustees
(1) On the commencement* of this Ordinance, a reference to the Trustees or the Association in any document relating to a matter or property vested in the Corporation is read as a reference to the Corporation.
(2) For the purposes of this section document (文件) does not include any document which relates to the incorporation of the Trustees or the Association.

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 20 January 1995.

14. Saving of employees of the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden
(1) A person who was, immediately before the commencement* of this Ordinance, an employee of the Association and employed at the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden is, on and from the commencement of this Ordinance, an employee of the Corporation on the same terms and conditions as he was an employee of the Association immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance.
(2) For the purposes of determining the rights or benefits of an employee on his ceasing service, there is no break in continuity of his service by reason only of this Ordinance.

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 20 January 1995.

15. Appointment of Executive Director and other employees
(1) The Corporation is to appoint an Executive Director, who is responsible to the Corporation for the day to day management and administration of the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden.
(2) The Corporation may employ other employees as it thinks fit and determine all matters relating to their remuneration and the terms and conditions of their employment.

### Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden Corporation Ordinance 《嘉道理農場暨植物園公司條例》

16. Employment of technical and professional advisers
(1) The Corporation may engage the services of technical and professional advisers to advise the Corporation in matters arising out of or in connection with any of the functions or powers of the Corporation.
(2) Matters relating to the remuneration and the terms and conditions of engagement of advisers, and the manner of their engagement, under subsection (1) are determined by the Corporation.

17. Power of Corporation to delegate
The Corporation may, with or without restrictions or conditions as it thinks fit, delegate in writing any of its functions or powers to the Executive Director, other than its power—
(a) to appoint the Executive Director;
(b) to appoint an auditor; or
(c) to make bylaws.

18. Power of Executive Director to delegate
(1) The Executive Director may, with or without restrictions or conditions as he thinks fit, delegate in writing to a person as he thinks fit, his functions and powers, including a function or power delegated to him under section 17.
(2) The power of the Executive Director to delegate a function or power of the Corporation delegated to him under section 17 and the exercise by a person of a function or power delegated by the Executive Director under subsection (1), are subject to any restriction or condition imposed by the Corporation under section 17.

19. Power to borrow money
The Corporation may, for the promotion of its functions, borrow money and charge its property as security therefor, and pay interest on the money borrowed.

20. Accounts and statements
(1) The Corporation is—
(a) to keep proper accounts of all its financial transactions;
(b) to prepare for each financial year a statement of the accounts of the Corporation including an income and expenditure account and balance sheet signed by the Chairman.
(2) An auditor appointed by the Corporation is to audit the accounts of the Corporation and the signed statement of accounts.
(3) The auditor is to certify the statement subject to such report, if any, as he thinks fit.

21. Investment of surplus funds
The Corporation may invest such of its funds that are not immediately required in such forms of investments as are set out in Schedule 2 to the Trustee Ordinance (Cap. 29).

22. Trustees may obtain information
The Corporation is required on request by the Trustees to afford to them sufficient facilities to obtain information on the property and affairs of the Corporation and in the manner and at the times as the Trustees may require to furnish them with returns, accounts and other relevant information and to afford to them facilities for the verification of information furnished.

### Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden Corporation Ordinance 《嘉道理農場暨植物園公司條例》

24. Saving
Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of the Central Authorities or the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the Basic Law and other laws, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
(Amended 61 of 2000 s. 3)

### Middle East Finance International Limited (Transfer of Undertaking) Ordinance 《中東財務國際有限公司(業務移轉)條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Middle East Finance International Limited (Transfer of Undertaking) Ordinance.

### Middle East Finance International Limited (Transfer of Undertaking) Ordinance 《中東財務國際有限公司(業務移轉)條例》

3. Appointed day
MEFIL and Emirates Bank shall give joint notice in the Gazette stating the day appointed as the appointed day save that, in the event that such day proves not to be the appointed day for any reason, MEFIL and Emirates Bank shall give joint notice in the Gazette to that effect and shall again give joint notice in the Gazette stating the next day so appointed or, as the case may be, the day which was the appointed day.

4. Revocation of registration as a deposit-taking company
On the appointed day, by virtue of this Ordinance, the registration of MEFIL as a deposit-taking company shall, in accordance with this section, be revoked.

5. Vesting of the undertaking in Emirates Bank
(1) On the appointed day the undertaking shall, by virtue of this Ordinance and without further act or deed, be transferred to, and vest in, Emirates Bank to the intent that Emirates Bank shall succeed to the whole undertaking.
(2) Where the vesting of any property situate in any country or territory outside Hong Kong and forming part of the undertaking is governed otherwise than by the law of Hong Kong, MEFIL shall, if Emirates Bank so requires, so soon as is practicable after the appointed day, take all necessary steps for securing the effective vesting thereof in Emirates Bank and, pending such vesting, MEFIL shall hold any such property in trust for Emirates Bank.