### Rating Ordinance 《差餉條例》

56. Savings and transitional arrangements on amendment of Ordinance by Provision of Municipal Services (Reorganization) Ordinance
(1) A valuation list applicable in respect of a tenement for any purpose of this Ordinance immediately before the commencement date is applicable on and after that date in respect of that tenement and for that purpose as if the amendments had not been made.
(2) Any Resolution of the Legislative Council made for the purposes of section 18(1) and in force immediately before the commencement date continues to have effect on and after that date to the extent that it is relevant for the purpose of computing or determining rates payable for any period ending before the commencement date or determining the amount of a refund in relation to such rates and for those purposes the Resolution is to be construed as if the amendments had not been made.
(3) Notwithstanding section 18(1) and any Resolution of the Legislative Council made for the purposes of that section and in force immediately before the commencement date, the percentage of the rateable value on the basis of which rates payable on and after that date under that section are to be computed is 5% and any relevant reference to the percentage prescribed for the purposes of that section is to be construed accordingly.
(4) Subsection (3) is to apply until the next Resolution of the Legislative Council made for the purposes of section 18(1) takes effect to prescribe the percentage of the rateable value for the purposes of that section.
(5) For the avoidance of doubt it is stated that nothing in the amendments are to be construed as affecting the liability for rates payable for any period ending before the commencement date and that such rates may be recovered as if the amendments had not been made.
(6) For the avoidance of doubt it is stated that nothing in the amendments are to be construed as affecting any right to a refund in respect of rates paid or payable for a period ending before the commencement date.
(7) Without limiting subsection (5), if as a result of an interim valuation any rates or part of rates known and payable as Urban Council rates or Regional Council rates before the commencement date become payable in relation to any period ending before the commencement date, the liability for payment is not affected by anything in the amendments and they can be recovered as if the amendments had not been made.
(8) In this section—
the amendments (有關修訂) means the amendments made to this Ordinance by the Provision of Municipal Services (Reorganization) Ordinance (Cap. 552);
commencement date (生效日期) means the date on which the amendments come into operation.
(Added 78 of 1999 s. 7)

### Immigration (Places of Detention) Order 《入境(羈留地點)令》

1. Citation
This order may be cited as the Immigration (Places of Detention) Order.

2. Places of detention
The places specified in Schedules 1, 2 and 3 shall be places at which a person required or authorized to be detained by or under the Ordinance may be so detained.

3. Application of Prison Rules
A person detained in any place set out in Schedule 1 shall receive the same treatment as that which is accorded to a person committed to prison for safe custody in any of the circumstances specified in rule 188(1) of the Prison Rules (Cap. 234 sub. leg. A) and, mutatus mutandis, rules 189 to 207 (inclusive) of the Prison Rules (Cap. 234 sub. leg. A) shall apply to him.

3A. Power to modify privileges under Prison Rules
Notwithstanding paragraph 3, the privileges specified in rules 203 and 206 of the Prison Rules (Cap. 234 sub. leg. A) may be modified or withdrawn—
(a) by the Commissioner of Correctional Services in his discretion in respect of a person detained in a place specified in Schedule 1 of which he has the control;
(b) by the Commissioner of Police in his discretion in respect of a person detained in a place specified in Schedule 1 of which he has the control.
(L.N. 63 of 1979; L.N. 102 of 1979; L.N. 167 of 1979)

3B. Use of telephone
Notwithstanding paragraph 3, a person detained in that part of Victoria Prison known as Victoria Immigration Centre and occupied by the Immigration Department may, upon request made to the Commissioner of Correctional Services or to the Director, be permitted at all reasonable times to make use of a telephone provided for the bona fide purpose of communicating with his legal advisers, relatives or friends.
(L.N. 59 of 1981)

4. Treatment of children and juveniles
A person, who in the opinion of an immigration officer is under the age of 18 years, may be detained in any place set out in Schedule 2 and shall receive the same treatment as that which is accorded to a child or juvenile detained in a place of refuge under section 34E of the Protection of Children and Juveniles Ordinance (Cap. 213).
(L.N. 649 of 1994)

### Immigration (Refugee Status Review Boards) (Procedure) Regulations 《入境(難民身分覆檢委員會)(程序)規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Immigration (Refugee Status Review Boards) (Procedure) Regulations.

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
applicant (申請人) means the person making application for a review under section 13F whether on his own behalf or on behalf of a child;
Board (委員會) means a Board to which an application for review under section 13F is made;
Chairman (主席) means the Chairman of the Boards;
Commissioner (專員) means the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees acting through his representative in Hong Kong;
Deputy Chairman (副主席) means a Deputy Chairman of the Boards;
prescribed person (訂明人員) means an appeals counsellor engaged by the Agency for Volunteer Service.

3. Constitution of Boards
(1) Subject to this regulation, a Board shall be constituted by a Deputy Chairman and one other member sitting together, being a Deputy Chairman and member designated by the Chairman.
(2) The Chairman may sit as a member of a Board either instead of a Deputy Chairman or in addition to him.

4. Person presiding and manner of making decisions
(1) Except where the Chairman is present, when he shall preside, the Deputy Chairman appointed to a Board shall preside at the sittings of a Board.
(2) A Board shall allow an application for a review if either or, if there are more than 2, one of its members considers the review should be allowed.
(3) Subject to subregulation (2), in the event of a difference of opinion between members of a 2-member board, the decision of the person presiding shall prevail and, in the case of a 3-member board, the decision of the majority shall prevail.

5. Manner of making application for a review
(1) Any person desiring to apply to a Board for a review under section 13F may do so by giving written notice of such application, within the time prescribed in section 13F(1), to the Chairman.
(2) The notice of application shall be accompanied by any representations and documentary evidence which the applicant wants the Board to consider.

6. The representative of the applicant
(1) Anything which the applicant may do under these regulations, his representative may do on his behalf. 
(2) The legal representative of the applicant shall be such legal practitioner (being a legal practitioner entitled to practise in Hong Kong) as the applicant may designate to the Chairman and, if no such person is so designated, then the prescribed person shall be deemed to be the representative of the applicant for the purposes of these regulations.