### Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance 《強制性公積金計劃條例》

17C. Administrators to pay compensation to specified person
(1) If the Court makes an order under section 17B for the award of compensation, the administrators of the compensation fund must pay the compensation to such person as is specified in the order.
(2) The administrators of the compensation fund must pay the compensation within the period, and in the manner, prescribed by the regulations.
(3) If the Court makes an order under section 17B for the award of compensation, the administrators of the compensation fund must add interest to the compensation.
(4) The interest is to be calculated in accordance with the regulations.
(Added 4 of 1998 s. 2)

18. Recovery of arrears and contribution surcharges
(Replaced 1 of 2008 s. 60)(1) If a mandatory contribution that falls within paragraph (a) or (aa) of the definition of mandatory contribution

### Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance 《強制性公積金計劃條例》

19. Powers of Authority in relation to mandatory contributions
(1) An authorized person may, for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance (except sections 34L, 34ZL and 34ZM), the requirements imposed under this Ordinance, or the conditions imposed under this Ordinance (except section 34X), and for no other purpose do all or any of the following— (Amended 4 of 1998 s. 2; 16 of 2012 s. 9)
(a) subject to subsection (2), enter, inspect and examine at any reasonable time, by day or night, any premises in which the person knows or reasonably believes relevant employees or self-employed persons are employed or carrying on business;
(b) require any person found in those premises or place or any other person to produce any record required to be kept under this Ordinance or otherwise in that other person’s possession or under his control and inspect, examine and copy the same;
(c) make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the requirements of this Ordinance applicable to employers, relevant employees and self-employed persons are being complied with, and seize anything which may appear to the authorized person to be or contain evidence of an offence against this Ordinance;
(d) exercise any other powers which may be conferred on the authorized person by the regulations. (Amended 4 of 1998 s. 2)
(2) If premises are being used as a private dwelling, an authorized person may enter those premises only under the authority of a warrant issued under subsection (3). (Replaced 4 of 1998 s. 2)
(3) A magistrate may, on an application made by or on behalf of an authorized person, issue a warrant authorizing the person to enter premises referred to in subsection (2) if satisfied by information made on oath that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting—
(a) that an offence under this Ordinance has been, is being or is about to be committed in those premises; or
(b) that there is in those premises any thing that appears to the person to be or to contain evidence of such an offence. (Added 4 of 1998 s. 2)
(4) A person may exercise a power conferred by subsection (1) only if the person is in possession of a written authority issued by the Authority and produces that authority to the occupier of the premises sought to be entered, inspected or examined or to any other person in relation to whom it is sought to exercise that power. (Added 4 of 1998 s. 2)

### Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance 《強制性公積金計劃條例》

19A. Power of Authority to require production of records
(1) The Authority may, for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance (except sections 34L, 34ZL and 34ZM), the requirements imposed under this Ordinance, or the conditions imposed under this Ordinance (except section 34X), but for no other purpose, by notice in writing served on an employer, a self-employed person or any other person, require him to produce for inspection within such period as may be specified in the notice any record that is required to be kept under this Ordinance or is otherwise in his possession or under his control. (Amended 16 of 2012 s. 10)
(2) The Authority may make copies of all or any part of the records produced by a person pursuant to a notice served under subsection (1).
(Added 1 of 2008 s. 58)

19B. Authority may pay special contributions into accounts of scheme members
(1) The Authority may pay a contribution (referred to in this Part as a special contribution

### Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance 《強制性公積金計劃條例》

19C. Authority may require information or documents necessary for paying special contributions
(1) The Authority may, for the purpose of paying special contributions, by a notice in writing—
(a) require an approved trustee of a registered scheme to give to the Authority any information or document specified in the notice relating to the members of the scheme;
(b) require a trustee of a relevant scheme to give to the Authority any information or document specified in the notice relating to the members of the scheme;
(c) require an employer of a member of a registered scheme or relevant scheme to give to the Authority any information or document specified in the notice relating to the member; and
(d) require any other person whom the Authority reasonably believes to have in his possession, or under his control, any information or document relating to a member of a registered scheme or relevant scheme to give to the Authority any information or document specified in the notice relating to the member.
(2) Only information or documents that the Authority reasonably considers to be necessary for the purpose of paying special contributions may be specified in the notice and they may include (but are not limited to) the following particulars of a member of a registered scheme or relevant scheme—
(a) the member’s name;
(b) the member’s date of birth;
(c) the member’s Hong Kong Identity Card number or travel document number;
(d) the member’s income; and
(e) the member’s correspondence address, telephone number and electronic mail address.
(3) The Authority may specify in the notice—
(a) a manner in which the specified information or document must be given to the Authority; and
(b) a period that is reasonable in the circumstances within which the specified information or document must be given to the Authority.
(4) Where—
(a) a person is given a notice in writing under subsection (1); and
(b) the information or document specified in the notice is in the possession, or under the control, of that person,

that person must give the specified information or document to the Authority in the specified manner within the specified period.
(5) In this section—
member (成員), in relation to a registered scheme or relevant scheme, includes a former member of the scheme;
relevant scheme (有關計劃) has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes (Exemption) Regulation (Cap. 485 sub. leg. B).

### Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance 《強制性公積金計劃條例》

19D. Authority may require approved trustees to take actions necessary for paying special contributions
(1) The Authority may by a notice in writing require an approved trustee of a registered scheme to take any action, specified in the notice, that the Authority reasonably considers to be necessary for the purpose of paying special contributions.
(2) The Authority may specify in the notice—
(a) a manner in which the approved trustee must take the specified action; and
(b) a period that is reasonable in the circumstances within which the approved trustee must take the specified action.
(3) The action specified in the notice may include (but is not limited to) registering a person specified in the notice as a member of the scheme and opening a personal account for that person. (Amended 11 of 2009 s. 5)
(4) The approved trustee must, after receiving the Authority’s notice, take the specified action in the specified manner within the specified period.
(5) Where—
(a) the action specified in a notice in writing given to an approved trustee of a registered scheme under subsection (1) is to register a person specified in the notice as a member of the scheme and to open a personal account for that person; and (Amended 11 of 2009 s. 5)
(b) the approved trustee takes the specified action in compliance with the requirements under subsection (4),

that person is deemed to have agreed in writing to comply with the governing rules of the scheme.