### Insurance Ordinance 《保險業條例》

137. Authority may specify forms
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Authority may specify—
(a) the form of any document required under this Ordinance to be in the specified form; and
(b) the form of such other documents required for the purposes of this Ordinance as the Authority thinks fit.
(2) The Authority’s power under subsection (1) is subject to any express requirement under this Ordinance for a form, whether specified or otherwise, to comply with that requirement, but that requirement is not to restrict the exercise of that power in respect of that form to the extent that, in the opinion of the Authority, its exercise of that power in respect of that form does not contravene that requirement.
(3) To avoid doubt, it is declared that the Authority’s power under subsection (1) may be exercised in such a way as to—
(a) include in the specified form of a document referred to in that subsection a statutory declaration—
(i) to be made by the person completing the form; and
(ii) as to whether the particulars contained in the form are true and correct to the best of that person’s knowledge and belief;
(b) specify 2 or more forms of any document referred to in that subsection, whether as alternatives, or to provide for particular circumstances or particular cases, as the Authority thinks fit.
(4) A form specified under this section must be—
(a) completed in accordance with the directions and instructions that are specified in the form;
(b) accompanied by the documents that are specified in the form; and
(c) if the completed form is required to be provided to the Authority or any other person, so provided in the manner, if any, specified in the form.
(5) In this section—
document (文件) includes any application, notice, return and accounts.

138. Amendment of Schedules
(1) The Chief Executive in Council may, by notice published in the Gazette, amend Schedule 9.
(2) The Authority may, with the approval of the Financial Secretary, by notice published in the Gazette, amend any of the following—
(a) Schedule 1;
(b) Schedule 2;
(c) Schedule 3;
(d) Schedule 4;
(e) Schedule 5;
(f) Schedule 6;
(g) Schedule 7;
(ga) Schedule 7A; (Added 18 of 2020 s. 19)
(h) Schedule 8;
(3) The Legislative Council may by resolution amend Schedule 1D.

### Insurance (Actuaries’ Qualifications) Regulation 《保險業(精算師資格)規例》

1. Citation
This Regulation may be cited as the Insurance (Actuaries’ Qualifications) Regulation.
(L.N. 56 of 2017)

2. Prescribed qualifications for actuaries appointed under section 15(1)(b) of Ordinance
The prescribed qualifications referred to in section 15(1)(b) of the Ordinance of an actuary to an authorized insurer are any of the qualifications set out in the Schedule.
(L.N. 56 of 2017) 

### Government Leases Ordinance 《政府租契條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Government Leases Ordinance.
(Amended 29 of 1998 s. 18)

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
Commissioner (差餉物業估價署署長) means the Commissioner of Rating and Valuation;
Director (地政總署署長) means the Director of Lands; (Amended L.N. 76 of 1982; L.N. 94 of 1986; L.N. 291 of 1993)
lot (地段) means any piece or parcel of ground demised under a Government lease; (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)
new Government lease (新政府租契) means such a lease as is deemed to be granted under Part II; (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)
new Government rent (新地稅) means such a rent as shall be fixed under Part II; (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)
published (刊登) means published in the Gazette and in one daily newspaper printed in the English language for circulation in Hong Kong and in one daily newspaper printed in the Chinese language for circulation in Hong Kong;
relevant day (有關日子) means 1 July 1973 or the day immediately following the day of expiration of the Government lease, whichever is the later; (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)
renewable Government lease (可續期政府租契) means a Government lease to which the Ordinance applies by virtue of section 3; (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)
scheduled lot (附表地段) means a lot specified in the Schedule;

section (分段) means any portion of a lot which has been—
(a) assigned or alienated for the whole of the term created by the renewable Government lease of the lot; or (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)
(b) declared to have been divided or severed from the remainder of the lot,
by or under an instrument which is registered in the Land Registry and any portion of a lot retained following such assignment or alienation; (Amended 8 of 1993 s. 2)

tenement (物業單位) means any land (including land covered with water) or any building, structure, or part thereof which is held or occupied as a distinct or separate tenancy or holding.

### Government Leases Ordinance 《政府租契條例》

3. Application
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Ordinance applies—
(a) in the case of Government leases which expired before the commencement* of this Ordinance—
(i) to every such Government lease under which land in New Kowloon or in any other part of the New Territories was demised for a term of 75 years and which contained a right of renewal for a further term; and
(ii) to the Government lease of each lot specified in the Schedule; and
(b) in the case of Government leases which expire after the commencement of this Ordinance—
(i) to every such Government lease under which land in Hong Kong (other than the New Territories) is demised for a term of 99 or 75 years and which contains a right of renewal for a further term; and
(ii) to every such Government lease under which land in New Kowloon or in any other part of the New Territories is demised for a term of 21 years and which contains a right of renewal for a further term.
(2) This Ordinance does not apply to any lease to which the New Territories (Renewable Government Leases) Ordinance (Cap. 152) applies. (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 19)
(3) The Chief Executive may by order amend the Schedule. (Amended 3 of 2000 s. 3)
(Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105) Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 14 December 1973.

4. Renewal of Government leases which expired before commencement* of Ordinance
(1) Where a renewable Government lease of a lot expired before the commencement of this Ordinance and the lot had not been divided into sections before the expiration of the lease, the right of renewal contained in the lease shall be deemed to have been exercised by the person or all the persons, if more than one, entitled to that right immediately before the expiration of the lease and there shall be deemed to have been granted to such person or persons on the day following the day on which the lease expired a new Government lease of the lot.
(2) Where a renewable Government lease of a lot expired before the commencement of this Ordinance and the lot had been divided into sections before the expiration of the lease, the right of renewal contained in the lease shall be deemed to have been exercised by the persons entitled to that right immediately before the expiration of the lease, and there shall be deemed to have been granted to such persons on the day following the day on which the lease expired separate new Government leases of the sections of the lot respectively held by them under the lease.
(Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105) Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 14 December 1973.