### Bills of Lading and Analogous Shipping Documents Ordinance 《提單及相類裝運單據條例》

3. Shipping documents etc. to which Ordinance applies
(1) This Ordinance applies to the following documents—
(a) bills of lading;
(b) sea waybills; and
(c) ship’s delivery orders.
(2) References in this Ordinance to a bill of lading do not include references to a document which is incapable of transfer either by endorsement or, as a bearer bill, by delivery without endorsement; but subject to that, do include references to a received for shipment bill of lading.
(3) References in this Ordinance to a sea waybill are references to any document which is not a bill of lading but—
(a) is such a receipt for goods as contains or evidences a contract for the carriage of goods by sea; and
(b) identifies the person to whom delivery of the goods is to be made by the carrier in accordance with that contract.
(4) References in this Ordinance to a ship’s delivery order are references to a document which is neither a bill of lading nor a sea waybill but which contains an undertaking—
(a) that is given under or for the purposes of a contract for the carriage by sea of the goods to which the document relates, or of goods which include those goods; and
(b) by the carrier to a person identified in the document that he will deliver the goods to which the document relates to that person.

### Bills of Lading and Analogous Shipping Documents Ordinance 《提單及相類裝運單據條例》

5. Liabilities under shipping documents
(1) Where section 4(1) operates in relation to any document to which this Ordinance applies and the person in whom rights are vested by virtue of that subsection—
(a) takes or demands delivery from the carrier of any of the goods to which the document relates;
(b) makes a claim under the contract of carriage against the carrier in respect of any of those goods; or
(c) is a person who, at a time before those rights were vested in him, took or demanded delivery from the carrier of any of those goods,
that person shall (by virtue of taking or demanding delivery or making the claim or, in a case falling within paragraph (c), of having the rights vested in him) become subject to the same liabilities under that contract as if he had been a party to that contract.
(2) Where the goods to which a ship’s delivery order relates form a part only of the goods to which the contract of carriage relates, the liabilities to which any person is subject by virtue of the operation of this section in relation to that order shall exclude liabilities in respect of any goods to which the order does not relate.
(3) This section, so far as it imposes liabilities under any contract on any person, shall be without prejudice to the liabilities under the contract of any person as an original party to the contract.

6. Representations in bills of lading
A bill of lading which—
(a) represents goods to have been shipped on board a vessel or to have been received for shipment on board a vessel; and
(b) has been signed by the master of the vessel or by a person who was not the master but had the express, implied or apparent authority of the carrier to sign bills of lading,
shall, in favour of a person who has become the lawful holder of the bill, be conclusive evidence against the carrier of the shipment of the goods or, as the case may be, of their receipt for shipment.

### Bills of Lading and Analogous Shipping Documents Ordinance 《提單及相類裝運單據條例》

7. Regulations
(1) The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development may by regulation make provision for the application of this Ordinance to cases where a telecommunications system or any other information technology is used for effecting transactions corresponding to— (Amended L.N. 173 of 2000; 36 of 2000 s. 28; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007)
(a) the issue of a document to which this Ordinance applies;
(b) the endorsement, delivery or other transfer of such a document; or
(c) the doing of anything else in relation to such a document.
(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may—
(a) make such modifications as the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development considers appropriate in connection with the application of this Ordinance to any case mentioned in that subsection; and (Amended L.N. 173 of 2000; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007)
(b) contain supplemental, incidental, consequential and transitional provisions.

8. Hague-Visby Rules
The provisions of this Ordinance shall have effect without prejudice to the application, in relation to any case, of the provisions of the International Convention for the unification of certain rules of law relating to bills of lading signed at Brussels on 25 August 1924 as amended by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 23 February 1968 (known as the Hague-Visby Rules), so far as those Rules have the force of law in Hong Kong.

### Registrar General (Establishment) (Transfer of Functions and Repeal) Ordinance 《註冊總署署長(人事編制)(職能移交及廢除)條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 4 of 2021)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Registrar General (Establishment) (Transfer of Functions and Repeal) Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 4 of 2021)

31. Amendment of references to Registrar General
The Secretary for Development may, by notice (which may be given retrospective effect) in the Gazette, repeal a reference to— (Amended L.N. 330 of 1999; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007)
(a) “Registrar General”, “Registrar General (Land Officer)” or “Land Officer” and substitute the reference by a reference to the appropriate public officer; and
(b) “Land Office” and substitute “Land Registry”.

32. Transfer of functions
With effect from the date of commencement* of this section, the Director of Lands may exercise a function or power under a Government lease or other instrument or contract affecting land that the Registrar General, the Registrar General (Land Officer) or the Land Officer is empowered to exercise.
(Amended L.N. 291 of 1993; 29 of 1998 s. 105) Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 1 March 1993.

### Sewage Tunnels (Statutory Easements) Ordinance 《污水隧道(法定地役權)條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Sewage Tunnels (Statutory Easements) Ordinance.

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
land (土地) means leased land within the meaning of the Land (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 28) or unleased land which is occupied in accordance with Part II of that Ordinance and includes land covered by water; (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 85)
Land Registry (土地註冊處) means the Land Registry established under the Land Registration Ordinance (Cap. 128); (Amended 20 of 2002 s. 5)
Secretary (局長) means the Secretary for Environment and Ecology; (Amended 61 of 1999 s. 3; L.N. 330 of 1999; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; L.N. 144 of 2022)
sewage tunnel and tunnel (污水隧道) mean an underground tunnel and associated underground structures for the transfer of sewage;
tunnel works (污水隧道工程) means the construction, operation, maintenance, repair or replacement of any sewage tunnel or any part of such tunnel, or the investigation or examination of such tunnel or of any land required for such tunnel.

3. Plans relating to sewage tunnels
Where the Government proposes to construct any sewage tunnel, the Secretary shall cause to be prepared a plan—
(a) showing the route of the proposed tunnel; and
(b) identifying the land situated on the route of the proposed tunnel.