### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

144A. Restriction on certain powers
The Authority shall not exercise the powers conferred by sections 42A(1), 76A(1), 79(3), 105A(1), 105G, 105K(1), 105M(1), 106(1), and 124A(4) in relation to any premises which are the subject of a Government lease without the consent of the lessee thereof. 
(Added 21 of 1973 s. 12. Amended 70 of 1977 s. 3; 29 of 1998 s. 105)

146. Chief Executive in Council empowered in any appeal to state case for opinion of Court of Appeal on question of law
(1) In any appeal to him under the provisions of this Ordinance, the Chief Executive in Council may, at any time in his discretion, direct a case to be stated for the opinion of the Court of Appeal on any question of law involved in such appeal. The terms of such case shall be agreed upon by the parties concerned, or, in the event of their failure to agree, shall be settled by the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal shall hear and determine the question of law arising on any case stated as aforesaid, and shall remit the matter to the Chief Executive in Council who shall give effect by order to the finding of the court. The costs of such hearing shall be in the discretion of the court. 
(2) Any party to the appeal shall be entitled to be heard by counsel on the hearing of any case so stated. 
(3) The Clerk to the Executive Council shall give the appellant 7 days’ notice of the hearing of the appeal, and shall, at the same time, furnish the appellant with a copy of the evidence and documents submitted by the respondent for the consideration of the Chief Executive in Council. (Amended 14 of 1994 s. 24) 
(4) The decision of the Chief Executive in Council upon any appeal under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be final and may be enforced by the Court of First Instance as if it had been an order of that court. (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
(5) Nothing contained in this Ordinance shall be construed to prevent any person from applying to the Court of First Instance for a mandamus, injunction, prohibition or other order, should he elect so to do in lieu of appealing to the Chief Executive in Council. (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
(Amended 92 of 1975 s. 59; 59 of 2000 s. 3)

### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

147. Forms
(1) Wherever under the provisions of this Ordinance the use of a form prescribed in the Seventh Schedule is required, there shall be used the appropriate form prescribed in that Schedule or a form to the like effect subject to such variation as circumstances may require. 
(2) The Chief Executive in Council may by order amend any form for the time being prescribed in the Seventh Schedule and may, in like manner, add any form to that Schedule or delete any form therefrom. (Amended 59 of 2000 s. 3)

148. Transitional provisions with respect to offences and certain notices
(1) Where an offence (being an offence for the continuance of which a penalty was provided) has been committed under any enactment revoked or cancelled and re-enacted, with or without amendment, by any regulations made under this Ordinance, proceedings may be taken under such regulations in respect of the continuance of the offence after the commencement of such regulations in the same manner as if the offence had been committed under the corresponding provisions of such regulations. 
(2) Where an enactment revoked or cancelled by any regulations made under this Ordinance relates to the giving of notices—
(a) not less than a specified period before; or 
(b) within a specified period after, 
the doing of some act or the happening of some event, and the commencement of such regulations falls within the period applicable under that enactment to any particular act done or to any particular event, the revocation or cancellation and re-enactment shall be deemed to have taken effect in relation to that act or event, in the first mentioned case, at a date sufficiently early to enable the required notice to be given under the corresponding provisions of such regulations, and, in the secondly mentioned case, immediately before the doing of the act or the happening of the event in question. 
(3) Where, under any enactment revoked or cancelled and re-enacted, with or without amendment, by any regulations made under this Ordinance, any notice has been served relating to the doing of some act or the happening of some event, such notice shall be deemed to have been served under the corresponding provisions of such regulations.

150. Penalties
Any person who is guilty of an offence under any of the provisions of this Ordinance specified in the first column of the Ninth Schedule shall be liable on summary conviction to the penalty specified in relation thereto in the second column of that Schedule, and, where the offence is a continuing offence, shall be liable, in addition, to the fine specified in relation thereto in the third column of that Schedule for each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the offence has continued.

### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

154. Transitional
Any reference in subsidiary legislation made under this Ordinance to prescribed fee or fee determined under section 124K includes a reference to a fee continued in force under section 9(2) of the Provision of Municipal Services (Reorganization) Ordinance (Cap. 552) as if prescribed under section 124I, 124J or 124L or determined under section 124K, as the case may be, until the relevant fee is replaced under section 124I, 124J, 124K or 124L.
(Added 78 of 1999 s. 7)

### Sweeteners in Food Regulations 《食物內甜味劑規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Sweeteners in Food Regulations.
(L.N. 225 of 2003)

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
air transhipment cargo (航空轉運貨物) has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Import and Export Ordinance (Cap. 60); (29 of 2000 s. 5)
air transit cargo (航空過境貨物) means any article in transit that is both imported and consigned for export in an aircraft; (29 of 2000 s. 5)
article in transit (過境物品) has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Import and Export Ordinance (Cap. 60); (29 of 2000 s. 5)
carbohydrate (碳水化合物) means a substance containing only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, in which the hydrogen and oxygen occur in the same proportion as they do in water;
cargo transhipment area of Hong Kong International Airport (機場貨物轉運區) has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Import and Export Ordinance (Cap. 60); (29 of 2000 s. 5)
sell (售賣) includes expose or offer for sale or have in possession for sale;
sugar (糖) means any soluble carbohydrate sweetening matter; (L.N. 61 of 2010)
sweetener (甜味劑) means any chemical compound which is sweet to the taste, but does not include any sugars or other carbohydrates or polyhydric alcohols. (L.N. 225 of 2003; L.N. 61 of 2010)

3. Restriction on sale and use of sweeteners
(1) No person shall sell, consign, deliver or import any sweetener for human consumption which is not specified in the Schedule.
(2) No person shall sell, consign or deliver or import any food intended for human consumption containing any sweetener which is not specified in the Schedule.
(L.N. 225 of 2003)