### Basel Evangelical Missionary Society Incorporation Ordinance 《巴色差會法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society Incorporation Ordinance.

2. Incorporation of the President in Hong Kong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society
The President for the time being in Hong Kong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society shall be a corporation sole, hereinafter called the corporation

3. Powers of corporation
(1) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, or other goods and chattels whatsoever, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.

4. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors
The legal estate in any property whatsoever, transferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever, shall, in the event of the death of the President for the time being in Hong Kong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society or in the event of his ceasing to hold office as such President, pass to his successor in such office when appointed.

5. Execution of documents
All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the person who is for the time being President in Hong Kong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society or of his attorney duly authorized, and such deeds and instruments and all other documents, instruments and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such President or his attorney.

### Basel Evangelical Missionary Society Incorporation Ordinance 《巴色差會法團條例》

6. Appointment of President
(1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of President in Hong Kong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society that person shall, within three weeks after his appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Chief Executive, furnish to the Chief Executive satisfactory evidence of his appointment.
(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Chief Secretary for Administration that such evidence has been furnished to the Chief Executive by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment. (Amended L.N. 226 of 1976; L.N. 242 of 1994; L.N. 362 of 1997)
(Amended 33 of 1939; G.N. 840 of 1940 Supp. Schedule; 32 of 1999 s. 3)

7. 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 32 of 1999 s. 3)

### Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund Ordinance 《商船海員援助基金條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund Ordinance.

2. Establishment of the Fund
A fund to be known as “The Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund of Hong Kong” shall be established and kept at the Treasury.

3. Maintenance of the Fund
(1) The said Fund shall be maintained by an appropriation thereto on the 1st day of April in each year from the general revenue of Hong Kong of such a sum as may be deemed by the Legislative Council sufficient for the requirements of the Fund during that year.
(2) Any sum standing to the credit of the said Fund on the 31st day of March in any year shall be re-appropriated by the Director of Accounting Services to the general revenue of Hong Kong. (Amended L.N. 16 of 1977; L.N. 453 of 1993)
(Amended 21 of 1947 s. 2; 61 of 2000 s. 3)

4. Administration of the Fund
(1) The said Fund shall be administered by a Committee, the chairman of which shall be the Director of Marine, and the other members of which shall be appointed by the Chief Executive.
(2) The administration by the Committee shall be controlled by regulations made hereunder. The Chief Executive in Council shall have power to amend such regulations in any manner whatsoever.
(Amended 61 of 2000 s. 3)

### Family Procedure Ordinance 《家事訴訟程序條例》

1. Short title and commencement
(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Family Procedure Ordinance.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), this Ordinance comes into operation on a day to be appointed by the Chief Justice by notice published in the Gazette.
(3) The following provisions come into operation on the day on which this Ordinance is published in the Gazette—
(a) sections 1, 2, 3(1) (except paragraph (e)), (2) and (4) and 15;
(b) Part 4;
(c) section 28 (in so far as it relates to section 76 of the Schedule);
(d) section 76 of the Schedule.

### Family Procedure Ordinance 《家事訴訟程序條例》

5. Application of this Ordinance
(Not yet in operation)(1) This Ordinance applies to every family proceeding, whether it is in the High Court or the Family Court.
(2) To avoid doubt, unless otherwise provided by this Ordinance, this Ordinance applies to a family proceeding that was started in, or transferred or retransferred to, the High Court or the Family Court before the commencement date of this section.

### Family Procedure Ordinance 《家事訴訟程序條例》

6. Matters within CFI’s exclusive jurisdiction
(Not yet in operation)(1) Subject to section 7(2), the CFI has exclusive jurisdiction over the family proceedings for the following matters—
(a) an application for interim relief under section 21M of the High Court Ordinance (Cap. 4);
(b) an application to obtain consent of the CFI to the marriage of a ward of court under section 14(2) of the Marriage Ordinance (Cap. 181);
(c) an appeal against the decision of the Registrar (as defined by section 2 of the Marriage Ordinance (Cap. 181)) (Registrar of Marriages

7. Matters within Family Court’s jurisdiction
(Not yet in operation)(1) Unless otherwise provided by an enactment, the Family Court has jurisdiction over all family proceedings.
(2) The Family Court has jurisdiction over a family proceeding (or an application in an inherent jurisdiction proceeding) that falls within the CFI’s exclusive jurisdiction if—
(a) for a family proceeding—the proceeding is transferred by the CFI to the Family Court under section 8(3); or
(b) for an application—the application is transferred by the CFI to the Family Court under section 9(2).
(3) The Family Court has jurisdiction over a family proceeding even if the amount claimed in the proceeding is more than the limit of the District Court’s jurisdiction under the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336).
(4) The Family Court has jurisdiction to make an order concerning interest in or related to land in a family proceeding even if the annual rent or the rateable value of the land, ascertained under the Rating Ordinance (Cap. 116), is more than the limit of the District Court’s jurisdiction under the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336).