### District Court Ordinance 《區域法院條例》

25. Registrar to take charge of fees, etc.
There shall be paid to the Registrar—
(a) all fees payable under this Ordinance or under any other enactment, in respect of any proceedings in the Court;
(b) all forfeitures so imposed; and
(c) all fines so imposed. (Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 14)
(Added 21 of 1962 s. 12)

27. Falsely pretending to act under authority of the Court
Any person who—
(a) delivers or causes to be delivered to any other person any paper falsely purporting to be a copy of any summons or other process of the Court, knowing it to be false; or
(b) acts or professes to act under any false colour or pretence of the process or authority of the Court,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—
(i) on summary conviction to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 2 years; or (Amended 28 of 2000 s. 16)
(ii) on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 7 years.
(Added 21 of 1962 s. 12)

28. Falsely representing documents to have been issued from the Court
Without prejudice to the provisions of section 27 any person who knowingly delivers or causes to be delivered to any person any document which not having been issued under the authority of the Court has, by reason of its form or contents or both, the appearance of having been issued under such authority shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 12 months.
(Replaced 21 of 1962 s. 12. Amended L.N. 446 of 1994; L.N. 307 of 1998; 28 of 2000 s. 17)

29. Rescuing goods
Any person who rescues or attempts to rescue any goods seized in execution under process of the Court or seized under a distress for rent shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—
(a) on summary conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 12 months; or (Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 18)
(b) on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 2 years. (Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 18)
(Added 21 of 1962 s. 12)

### District Court Ordinance 《區域法院條例》

30. Assaulting officers
Any person who assaults, resists or obstructs an officer of the Court while in the execution of his duty shall be liable—
(a) on summary conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 12 months; or (Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 19)
(b) on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 2 years. (Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 19)
(Replaced 21 of 1962 s. 12)

31. Revocation of committal order
A judge may at any time revoke an order committing a person to prison under section 20 or 23 and, if he is already in custody, order his discharge.
(Added 21 of 1962 s. 12. Amended 28 of 2000 s. 20)

32. General jurisdiction in actions of contract, quasi-contract and tort
(1) The Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine any action founded on contract, quasi-contract or tort where the amount of the plaintiff’s claim does not exceed $3,000,000.
(2) In this section and in section 34, the amount of the plaintiff’s claim means the amount the plaintiff claims after taking into account—
(a) any set-off or any debt or demand the defendant claims or may recover from the plaintiff;
(b) any compensation, as defined in section 3 of the Employees’ Compensation Ordinance (Cap. 282), paid to the plaintiff under that Ordinance; and
(c) any contributory negligence,

that the plaintiff admits in his statement of claim.
(3) The Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine any proceedings by way of interpleader in which the amount or value of the matter in dispute does not exceed $3,000,000.
(Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 21. Amended L.N. 241 of 2003; L.N. 131 of 2018)

### District Court Ordinance 《區域法院條例》

33. Money recoverable by enactment
(1) The Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine any action for the recovery of any penalty, expenses, contribution or other like demand which is recoverable by virtue of any enactment for the time being in force and for the recovery of any sum which is declared by any enactment to be recoverable as a civil debt if— (Amended 28 of 2000 s. 22)
(a) it is not expressly provided by that or any other enactment that the demand shall be recoverable only in some other court; and
(b) the amount claimed in the action does not exceed $3,000,000. (Amended 35 of 1966 s. 2; 68 of 1973 s. 2; 79 of 1981 s. 2; L.N. 387 of 1983; 49 of 1988 s. 4; L.N. 241 of 2003; L.N. 131 of 2018)
(2) For the purposes of this section, penalty (罰金) does not include a fine to which any person is liable on conviction on indictment or on summary conviction.
(22 of 1962 s. 4 incorporated. Amended 28 of 2000 s. 22)

34. Abandonment of part of claim to give Court jurisdiction
(1) The Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine an action that is in excess of the Court’s monetary jurisdiction limit on the plaintiff abandoning the amount of the plaintiff’s claim in excess and the action is one in which the Court otherwise has jurisdiction.
(2) The Court cannot award to the plaintiff in an action under this section an amount exceeding the Court’s monetary jurisdiction limit for the action.
(3) The judgment of the Court in an action limited under this section is in full discharge of all demands in the cause of action.
(Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 23)

35. Jurisdiction for recovery of land
The Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine any action for the recovery of land, where the annual rent or the rateable value of the land, determined in accordance with the Rating Ordinance (Cap. 116), or the annual value of the land, whichever is the least, does not exceed $320,000.
(Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 23. Amended L.N. 131 of 2018)

### District Court Ordinance 《區域法院條例》

36. Jurisdiction where title in question
The Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine any action which would otherwise be within the jurisdiction of the Court and in which the title to an interest in land comes into question if—
(a) for an easement or licence, the rateable value, determined in accordance with the Rating Ordinance (Cap. 116) or the annual value, whichever is the less, of the land, over which the easement or licence is claimed, does not exceed $320,000; or
(b) for any other case, the rateable value, determined in accordance with the Rating Ordinance (Cap. 116) or the annual value, whichever is the less, of the land, does not exceed $320,000.
(Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 23. Amended L.N. 131 of 2018)