### New Territories Land Exchange Entitlements (Redemption) Ordinance 《新界土地交換權利(贖回)條例》

6. Interest on redemption money
(1) Any redemption money payable under this Ordinance shall bear interest from the commencement date until the date of payment thereof.
(2) The rate of interest payable under subsection (1)—
(a) in respect of a working day shall be the lowest of the interest rates paid on deposits at 24 hours’ call by note-issuing banks at the close of business on that day; and
(b) in respect of a non-working day shall be the lowest of the interest rates paid on deposits at 24 hours’ call by note-issuing banks at the close of business on the last working day before that day. (Replaced 6 of 2001 s. 11)
(3) The Director shall, at the same time as any redemption money is paid to any person under this Ordinance, pay to the person any interest payable under this section in respect of the redemption money.
(4) In this section—
non-working day (非工作日) means a day that is not a working day;

working day (工作日) means any day other than—
(a) a public holiday; or
(b) a gale warning day or black rainstorm warning day as defined in section 71(2) of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1). (Added 6 of 2001 s. 11)

Editorial Note:
For the validation of interest payments and application provisions relating to the amendments made by 6 of 2001, see section 13 of 6 of 2001.

7. Payment of redemption money and interest
All monies payable by the Director under this Ordinance, whether as redemption money or as interest payable thereon under section 6, shall be paid out of the Capital Works Reserve Fund.

### New Territories Land Exchange Entitlements (Redemption) Ordinance 《新界土地交換權利(贖回)條例》

8. Conditions for payment
(1) The Director may, as a condition of making payment to any person as an owner of a land exchange entitlement under this Ordinance, require the person to comply with all or any of the following requirements—
(a) the person shall acknowledge as surrendered to the Director—
(i) all of the evidence furnished to the Director in support of the claim he has lodged as such an owner, or the specified part or parts thereof, as admitted by the Director under section 5(6); or
(ii) such of the evidence referred to in subparagraph (i) as the Director may specify;
(b) the person shall acknowledge receipt of the payment in such form as the Director may specify;
(c) the person shall execute, in such form as the Director may specify, an indemnity in favour of the Director to the effect that he will, in case—
(i) the payment or any part thereof covers any redemption money to which any claim or any specified part or parts of a claim subsequently admitted by the Director under section 5(6) relates, and any interest paid thereon under this Ordinance; or
(ii) the Director is otherwise satisfied that he should not have been entitled to the payment or any part thereof as an owner of the land exchange entitlement under this Ordinance,
indemnify the Director in respect of the payment or the part thereof, as the case may be, and of all liabilities, losses, costs, charges and expenses incurred by the Director by reason of or in respect of the payment or the part thereof, as the case may be.
(2) (a) Any money payable under an indemnity executed pursuant to subsection (1)(c) shall be recoverable as a civil debt due to the Director.
(b) Any money recovered under paragraph (a) shall—
(i) in so far as such money is recovered by way of indemnity in respect of any payment by the Director to any person as an owner of a land exchange entitlement under this Ordinance, be paid into the Capital Works Reserve Fund;
(ii) in so far as such money is otherwise recovered, be paid into the general revenue.
(3) Where the Director does not, as a condition of payment to any person as an owner of a land exchange entitlement under this Ordinance, require any of the evidence furnished to the Director in support of the claim the person has lodged as such an owner to be acknowledged as surrendered pursuant to subsection (1)(a), the Director shall return the evidence to the person at the same time as the payment is made.

9. Presumption of equal shares
Where the Director is satisfied that there are 2 or more owners in respect of a land exchange entitlement, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved to the satisfaction of the Director, that the respective shares of the owners in the legal ownership of the land exchange entitlement are equal.

### New Territories Land Exchange Entitlements (Redemption) Ordinance 《新界土地交換權利(贖回)條例》

10. Extinguishment of rights except under this Ordinance
(1) Except as provided in this Ordinance, all rights against the Government under a land exchange entitlement shall be extinguished.
(2) No action, claim or proceedings shall lie or be brought against, and no compensation shall be payable by, the Government, in respect of the extinguishment of rights under subsection (1).

11. Service of notice
(1) A notice required to be served by the Director under this Ordinance shall be in both the English and the Chinese languages.
(2) Service of a notice on any person under this Ordinance shall be effected—
(a) by delivering it to that person personally; or
(b) by sending it to that person by post.
(3) Where a notice is sent by post to a claimant under subsection (2), it shall be sufficient if the notice is addressed—
(a) where the Director has not received a notice under section 5(4) in respect of the address of the claimant, to the address which has been furnished to the Director as such an address in the notice served under section 5(1); or
(b) where the Director has received a notice under section 5(4) in respect of the address of the claimant, to the address which has been furnished to the Director as such an address under that section.
(4) A certificate purporting to be signed by a public officer shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence of the facts stated therein relating to the service, delivery and sending of any notice required to be served under this Ordinance.

12. Offence
(1) A person who, in connection with a claim—
(a) furnishes any information which he knows to be false or misleading, or does not believe to be true, in a material particular; or
(b) produces any deed, instrument or record which he knows to be false or misleading, or does not believe to be true, in a material particular,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
(2) Notwithstanding section 26 of the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap. 227), proceedings in respect of an offence under subsection (1) may be brought at any time within the period of 6 months after the commission of the offence or within the period of 6 months after the discovery thereof by the Director, whichever is the later to expire.

### Aviation Security Ordinance 《航空保安條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 6 of 2019)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Aviation Security Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 6 of 2019)

### Aviation Security Ordinance 《航空保安條例》

3. Application of criminal law to aircraft
(1) Any act or omission taking place on board a Hong Kong-controlled aircraft while in flight elsewhere than in or over Hong Kong which, if taking place in Hong Kong, would constitute an offence under the law of Hong Kong shall constitute that offence.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any act or omission which is expressly or impliedly authorized by or under the law of Hong Kong when taking place outside Hong Kong.
(3) No proceedings for any offence under the law of Hong Kong committed on board an aircraft while in flight elsewhere than in or over Hong Kong shall be instituted except by or with the consent of the Secretary for Justice, but this subsection shall not prevent the arrest, or the issue of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of any offence, or the remanding in custody or on bail of any person charged with any offence. (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)
[cf. 1967 c. 52 s. 1 U.K.]