### Factors Ordinance 《代理商條例》

6. Rights acquired by exchange of goods or documents
The consideration necessary for the validity of a sale, pledge, or other disposition of goods, in pursuance of this Ordinance, may be either a payment in cash, or the delivery or transfer of other goods, or of a document of title to goods, or of a negotiable security, or any other valuable consideration; but where goods are pledged by a mercantile agent in consideration of the delivery or transfer of other goods, or of a document of title to goods, or of a negotiable security, the pledgee shall acquire no right or interest in the goods so pledged in excess of the value of the goods, document, or security when so delivered or transferred in exchange.

7. Agreement through clerk, etc.
For the purposes of this Ordinance, an agreement made with a mercantile agent through a clerk or other person authorized in the ordinary course of business to make contracts of sale or pledge on his behalf shall be deemed to be an agreement with the agent.

8. Provisions as to consignor and consignee
(1) Where the owner of goods has given possession of the goods to another person for the purpose of consignment or sale, or has shipped the goods in the name of another person, and the consignee of the goods has not had notice that such person is not the owner of the goods, the consignee shall, in respect of advances made to or for the use of such person, have the same lien on the goods as if such person were the owner of the goods, and may transfer any such lien to another person.
(2) Nothing in this section shall limit or affect the validity of any sale, pledge, or disposition by a mercantile agent.

9. Disposition by seller remaining in possession
Where a person, having sold goods, continues, or is, in possession of the goods or of the documents of title to the goods, the delivery or transfer by that person, or by a mercantile agent acting for him, of the goods or documents of title under any sale, pledge, or other disposition thereof, or under any agreement for sale, pledge, or other disposition thereof, to any person receiving the same in good faith and without notice of the previous sale, shall have the same effect as if the person making the delivery or transfer were expressly authorized by the owner of the goods to make the same.

### Factors Ordinance 《代理商條例》

10. Disposition by buyer obtaining possession
Where a person, having bought or agreed to buy goods, obtains, with the consent of the seller, possession of the goods or the documents of title to the goods, the delivery or transfer, by that person or by a mercantile agent acting for him, of the goods or documents of title, under any sale, pledge, or other disposition thereof, or under any agreement for sale, pledge, or other disposition thereof, to any person receiving the same in good faith and without notice of any lien or other right of the original seller in respect of the goods, shall have the same effect as if the person making the delivery or transfer were a mercantile agent in possession of the goods or documents of title with the consent of the owner.

11. Effect of transfer of document of title on vendor’s lien or right of stoppage in transitu
Where a document of title to goods has been lawfully transferred to a person as a buyer or owner of the goods, and that person transfers the document to a person who takes the document in good faith and for valuable consideration, the last-mentioned transfer shall have the same effect for defeating any vendor’s lien or right of stoppage in transitu as the transfer of a bill of lading has for defeating the right of stoppage in transitu.

12. Mode of transferring document
For the purposes of this Ordinance, the transfer of a document may be by indorsement, or, where the document is by custom or by its express terms transferable by delivery or makes the goods deliverable to the bearer, then by delivery.

13. Saving for rights of true owner
(1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall authorize an agent to exceed or depart from his authority as between himself and his principal, or exempt him from any liability, civil or criminal, for so doing.
(2) Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the owner of goods from recovering the goods from an agent or his trustee in bankruptcy at any time before the sale or pledge thereof, or shall prevent the owner of goods pledged by an agent from having the right to redeem the goods at any time before the sale thereof, on satisfying the claim for which the goods were pledged, and paying to the agent, if by him required, any money in respect of which the agent would by law be entitled to retain the goods, or the documents of title thereto, or any of them, by way of lien as against the owner, or from recovering from any person with whom the goods have been pledged any balance of money remaining in his hands as the produce of the sale of the goods after deducting the amount of his lien.
(3) Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the owner of goods sold by an agent from recovering from the buyer the price agreed to be paid for the same, or any part of that price, subject to any right of set-off on the part of the buyer against the agent.

### Factors Ordinance 《代理商條例》

14. Saving of common law powers of agent
The provisions of this Ordinance shall be construed in amplification and not in derogation of the powers exercisable by an agent independently of this Ordinance.

### Apprenticeship (Periods of Apprenticeship) Notice 《學徒制度 (學徒訓練期)公告》

1. Citation
This notice may be cited as the Apprenticeship (Periods of Apprenticeship) Notice.

2. Specification of periods of apprenticeship
For the purposes of the Ordinance the periods of apprenticeship to be served by apprentices in the designated trades appearing in the first column of the Schedule are specified respectively in the second column thereof.

### Apprenticeship (Designation of Trades) (Consolidation) Order 《學徒制度(指定行業)(綜合)令》

1. Citation
This order may be cited as the Apprenticeship (Designation of Trades) (Consolidation) Order.

2. Designation of trades
The trades in the Schedule are specified as designated trades for the purposes of the Ordinance.

### Apprenticeship Regulations 《學徒制度規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Apprenticeship Regulations.

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
hours worked (工作時數) means the time during which an apprentice is employed, exclusive of the intervals allowed for meals or rest;
overtime employment (超時受僱) means any period during which an apprentice is at work outside the period of employment permitted under regulation 8;
period of employment (受僱時間) means the period, inclusive of the intervals allowed for meals or rest, within which an apprentice may be employed on any day;
rest day (休息日) means a continuous period of not less than 24 hours during which a registered apprentice is entitled to abstain from working for his employer; (L.N. 155 of 1980)
week (星期) means the period between midnight on Saturday night and midnight on the succeeding Saturday night.

3. Minimum period of apprenticeship
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the period of apprenticeship required to be served by an apprentice in a designated trade shall not be less than 3 years in any case.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply where the Director in exercise of his powers under the Ordinance reduces the period of apprenticeship in any case or class of cases.
(13 of 1982 s. 11)