### Hong Kong Metropolitan University Ordinance 《香港都會大學條例》

14. Accounts
(1) The Council shall keep proper accounts and records of the financial transactions of the University.
(2) As soon as is practicable after the end of each financial year, the Council shall cause to be prepared statements of the income and expenditure of the University during that financial year and of the assets and liabilities of the University on the last day of that financial year.
(3) The Council may from time to time fix a period of 12 months to be the financial year of the University.
(Amended 50 of 1997 s. 21)

15. Auditors
(1) The Council shall appoint auditors, who shall be entitled at any time to have access to all books of account, vouchers and other financial records of the University and to require such explanations thereof and such other information as they think fit. (Amended 50 of 1997 s. 22)
(2) The auditors shall, as soon as is practicable, audit the statements prepared under section 14(2) and shall report thereon to the Council in sufficient time for the Council to take the action required by section 16.

16. Statements and reports
(1) The Council shall, not later than 6 months after the end of each financial year or by such later date as the Chancellor may determine, submit to the Chancellor a report on the activities of the University and copies of the statements prepared under section 14(2) and of the report made under section 15(2). (Amended 50 of 1997 s. 23)
(2) (Repealed 50 of 1997 s. 23)

17. Unauthorized use of title of the University
(1) No person shall incorporate or form, or be a director, officer, member or organizer of, or work in connection with, any body of persons which—
(a) falsely purports or holds itself out to be—
(i) the University or any branch or part thereof; or
(ii) in any way connected or associated with the University; or
(b) uses the title “Hong Kong Metropolitan University” or “香港都會大學” or a title in any language which so closely resembles that title as to be capable of deceiving or misleading any person into believing that the body of persons is— (Amended 22 of 2021 s. 8)
(i) the University or any branch or part thereof; or
(ii) in any way connected or associated with the University. (Amended 50 of 1997 s. 24)
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 5. (Amended E.R. 1 of 2022)

### Hong Kong Metropolitan University Ordinance 《香港都會大學條例》

18. Power of the Council to make statutes
The Council may make statutes for the administration of the University and for matters that this Ordinance provides for inclusion in a statute.
(Replaced 50 of 1997 s. 25)

19. Admissibility of documents
(1) Any document purporting to be duly executed under the seal of the University or to be signed by the Chairman or President or some other person authorized by the Council to act in that behalf, shall be admitted in evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been duly executed or signed.
(2) A certificate signed by the Chairman or the President that an instrument of the Council purporting to be made or issued by or on behalf of the University was so made or issued shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.
(Amended 50 of 1997 s. 26)

### Rainier International Bank (Transfer of Hong Kong Undertaking) Ordinance 《美國國際商業銀行(香港業務轉讓)條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Rainier International Bank (Transfer of Hong Kong Undertaking) Ordinance.

### Rainier International Bank (Transfer of Hong Kong Undertaking) Ordinance 《美國國際商業銀行(香港業務轉讓)條例》

3. Notice of appointed day
Rainier and Daiwa shall give joint notice in the Gazette of the day expected to be the appointed day save that, in the event that such day proves not to be the appointed day for any reason, Rainier and Daiwa shall give joint notice in the Gazette to that effect and shall again give joint notice in the Gazette of the next day expected to be the appointed day or, as the case may be, of the day which was the appointed day.

4. Recognition of vesting of Rainier’s Hong Kong undertaking in Daiwa
On the appointed day the Hong Kong undertaking shall be deemed for the purpose of Hong Kong law to be transferred to, and vest in, Daiwa to the intent that Daiwa shall succeed to the Hong Kong undertaking.

5. Trust property and wills
(1) Any property deemed to be vested in Daiwa by virtue of this Ordinance which immediately before the appointed day was held by Rainier, whether alone or jointly with any other person, as trustee or custodian trustee of any trust deed, settlement, covenant, agreement or will (whether originally so appointed or not, and whether appointed under hand or seal, or by order of any court), or as executor of the will, or administrator of the estate, of a deceased person or as judicial trustee appointed by order of any court, or in any other fiduciary capacity, shall, on and from the appointed day, be held by Daiwa alone or, as the case may be, jointly with such other person, in the same capacity upon the trusts, and with and subject to the powers, provisions and liabilities, applicable thereto respectively.
(2) Any existing instrument or order of any court under or by virtue of which any property deemed to be vested in Daiwa by virtue of this Ordinance became vested in Rainier in any such fiduciary capacity as is referred to in subsection (1) (including in the case of a will any grant of probate thereof, and any provision in such instrument or order, or any existing contract or arrangement, for the payment to, or retention by, Rainier of remuneration for its services in any such fiduciary capacity, shall, on and from the appointed day, be construed and have effect, so far as the context permits, as if for any reference therein to Rainier there were substituted a reference to Daiwa.
(3) No testamentary gift shall be adeemed by reason only of the operation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance.

### Rainier International Bank (Transfer of Hong Kong Undertaking) Ordinance 《美國國際商業銀行(香港業務轉讓)條例》

7. Contracts of employment
(1) Section 6(a) shall apply to a contract for the employment of any person by Rainier; and employment with Rainier and Daiwa under any such contract shall be deemed for all purposes to be a single continuing employment.
(2) No director or auditor of Rainier shall by virtue only of this Ordinance become a director or, as the case may be, auditor of Daiwa.

8. Evidence: books and documents
(1) All books and other documents which would, before the appointed day, have been evidence in respect of any matter for or against Rainier shall be admissible in evidence in respect of the same matter for or against Daiwa.
(2) In this section documents (文件) has the same meaning as in section 46 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8). (Amended 2 of 1999 s. 6)

9. Part III of Evidence Ordinance
(1) On and from the appointed day Part III of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8) shall apply to the banker’s records of Rainier deemed to be vested in Daiwa by virtue of this Ordinance, and to entries made in those records before the appointed day, as if such records were the records of Daiwa.
(2) For the purposes of section 20 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8), banker’s records which are deemed to have become the banker’s records of Daiwa by virtue of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been the ordinary banker’s records of Daiwa at the time of the making of any entry therein which purports to have been made before the appointed day, and any such entry shall be deemed to have been made in the usual and ordinary course of business.
(3) In this section banker’s records (銀行紀錄) shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8).