### Communications Authority Ordinance 《通訊事務管理局條例》

20. Payments
(1) All sums of money payable, owing or paid to the Authority on or after the commencement date must on receipt be credited to the account of the trading fund for the provision of a government service by OFCA and held and applied in accordance with the provisions of the Trading Funds Ordinance (Cap. 430).
(2) If a licence or permit issued or deemed to be issued under or by virtue of Part 3A of the Telecommunications Ordinance (Cap. 106) or the Broadcasting Ordinance (Cap. 562) covers any period of time ending on or after the commencement date and any sum of money is payable, owing or paid to the Government (including the Director of Accounting Services) for that licence or permit, then that part of the sum in respect of the period of time on or after the commencement date must on receipt be credited to the account of the trading fund for the provision of a government service by OFCA and held and applied in accordance with the provisions of the Trading Funds Ordinance (Cap. 430).
(3) Despite subsection (1), if any sum of money is payable, owing or paid to the Authority for a licence or permit issued or deemed to be issued under or by virtue of Part 3A of the Telecommunications Ordinance (Cap. 106) or the Broadcasting Ordinance (Cap. 562) that covers any period of time before the commencement date, then that part of the sum in respect of that period of time must on receipt be credited to the general revenue.
(4) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to—
(a) any sum of money payable, owing or paid in respect of any spectrum utilization fee under section 32I of the Telecommunications Ordinance (Cap. 106);
(b) any sum of money payable, owing or paid in respect of any first demand performance bond or bank guarantee referred to in section 34(1B) of the Telecommunications Ordinance (Cap. 106) or performance bond referred to in section 2(3) of the Broadcasting Ordinance (Cap. 562); or
(c) any sum of money payable, owing or paid in respect of any item that has been directed by the Financial Secretary to be paid into the general revenue.
(5) Despite subsections (1) and (2), any fines or penalties imposed by the Authority or a former authority must be paid into the general revenue.
(6) In this section, issue (發出), in relation to a licence or permit, is to be construed as including the grant or renewal of the licence or permit, amendments of the licence or permit, whether in whole or in part, and the coming into effect of the licence or permit after any period of suspension.
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2012)

### Communications Authority Ordinance 《通訊事務管理局條例》

21. Payment out from trading fund
Despite any provisions in the Trading Funds Ordinance (Cap. 430), any sums payable by the Authority as a result of anything properly done or omitted to be done by the Authority in connection with the performance or purported performance of functions conferred on the Authority are to be paid out of the trading fund.

### Communications Authority Ordinance 《通訊事務管理局條例》

26. Transitional arrangements
(1) If, immediately before the commencement date, a complaint has been referred under section 11 of the pre-amended Ordinance to the Complaints Committee appointed under section 10 of the pre-amended Ordinance and has not been finally disposed of by the Complaints Committee, the Authority must refer the complaint to the Broadcast Complaints Committee.
(2) A complaint referred to the Broadcast Complaints Committee is to be treated, on referral, as a new complaint made under the Broadcasting (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 391).

### Communications Authority Ordinance 《通訊事務管理局條例》

27. Savings
(1) Part 8 (related and consequential amendments) does not affect the validity of anything lawfully done by or in relation to a former authority or a former department before the commencement date.
(2) The provisions of this Ordinance relating to the repeal and amendment of any enactment are in addition to and not in derogation from section 23 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1).
(3) The following subsections apply without limiting subsection (1) and to the extent that they are consistent with the other provisions of this Ordinance.
(4) Anything which immediately before the commencement date is in the process of being done by or in relation to a former authority, including legal proceedings to which a former authority is a party or which are instituted on behalf of a former authority and complaints made under section 11A of the pre-amended Ordinance which have not been finally disposed of, may be continued by or in relation to the Authority.
(5) Any right of appeal subsisting immediately before the commencement date against a former authority may be exercised against the Authority in accordance with this Ordinance.
(6) Any form, document, instrument or act that has been issued, made or done by a former authority or former department or having effect as if so issued, made or done by or on behalf of the former authority or former department, which is in force immediately before the commencement date or which is to take effect on or after that date, has effect as if it was issued, made or done by the Authority, OFCA or the department that takes up a former department’s function, in so far as that is required for continuing its effect after that date.
(7) Any performance of a function or exercise of a power by or on behalf of a former authority or a former department which is in force immediately before the commencement date or which is to take effect on or after that date has effect as if it was performed or exercised by the Authority, OFCA or the department that takes up a former department’s function, in so far as that is required for continuing its effect after that date.
(8) Any delegation of functions by a former authority to a former department, an officer of a former department, a public officer or a person authorized by a former authority which is in force immediately before the commencement date has effect as if made by the Authority to OFCA, an officer of OFCA or the public officer or authorized person, in so far as that is required for continuing its effect after that date.
(9) If Part 8 (related and consequential amendments) operates to substitute a new provision for a provision (former provision