### Sewage Tunnels (Statutory Easements) Ordinance 《污水隧道(法定地役權)條例》

13. Claims out of time
(1) Subject to subsection (2), if notice of a claim is not delivered to the Director of Lands before the expiration of the period specified in section 12(3) in respect of that matter, the right to claim compensation for that matter shall be barred.
(2) The period referred to in subsection (1) may, upon application made to the Lands Tribunal either before or after the expiry of that period, be extended in accordance with this section.
(3) Notice of an application under subsection (2) shall be given to the Director of Lands by the applicant.
(4) The Lands Tribunal may extend the period within which notice of a claim must be delivered to the Director of Lands if it considers that the delay in delivering notice of the claim was occasioned by mistake of fact or mistake of any matter of law (other than the relevant provision in section 12(3)) or by any other reasonable cause or that the Government is not materially prejudiced in the conduct of its case or otherwise by the delay. (Amended 61 of 1999 s. 3)
(5) An extension may be granted by the Lands Tribunal under subsection (4) with or without conditions for such period as it thinks fit but not in any case exceeding 5 years from the expiration of the period referred to in subsection (1).

14. Offence to obstruct exercise of right of Government
(1) Any person who, having been given notice by the Government of its intention to exercise rights created under section 10 in respect of any land, wilfully obstructs or interferes with the lawful exercise of those rights at any time specified in the notice commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended E.R. 4 of 2021)
(2)  For the purpose of subsection (1) notice (通知) means written notice given—
(a) not less than 1 day before the earliest time specified in the notice;
(b) to the defendant personally.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as imposing on the Government an obligation to give notice under this section prior to the exercise of any of the rights created under section 10.
(Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)

### Foreign Corporations Ordinance 《外地法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Corporations Ordinance.

2. Recognition of corporate status of certain foreign corporations
(1) If at any time—
(a) a question arises as to whether a body, which purports to have or which appears to have lost corporate status under the laws of a territory outside Hong Kong which is not at that time a recognized State, should or should not be regarded as having legal personality as a body corporate under the law of Hong Kong; and
(b) it appears that the laws of that territory are at that time applied by a settled court system in that territory,
that question and any other material question relating to the body shall be determined (and account shall be taken of those laws) as if that territory were a recognized State.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—
(a) a recognized State is a territory which is recognized by Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom as a State;
(b) the laws of a territory which is so recognized shall be taken to include the laws of any part of the territory which are acknowledged by the federal or other central government of the territory as a whole; and
(c) a material question is a question (whether as to capacity, constitution or otherwise) which, in the case of a body corporate, falls to be determined by reference to the laws of the territory under which the body is established.
(3) Any registration or other thing done at a time before the coming into operation* of this section shall be regarded as valid if it would have been valid at that time, had subsections (1) and (2) been in operation.

Editorial Note:
* Operation date: 29 October 1993.

### Amusement Game Centres Ordinance 《遊戲機中心條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 4 of 2020)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Amusement Game Centres Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2012)

2. Interpretation
(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
amusement game centre (遊戲機中心) means, subject to section 3, any place in which there is installed or placed for use or operation for the purpose, in whole or in part, of amusement, recreation or entertainment on payment directly or indirectly of any consideration in money or money’s worth, any machine or device—
(a) which enables or is capable of enabling any person by any means whatever to release, set in motion, manipulate, control or direct the movement of any ball, projectile, or other object, and registers any score or combination in any manner whatever; or
(b) which enables or is capable of enabling any person by any means whatever to release, set in motion, manipulate, control or direct the movement of any image, signal or electrical impulse; or
(c) which upon the insertion therein by any person of any coin, token, disc, card or object, produces or is capable of producing to him any prize, coin, token or disc or any other object or article whatever; or
(d) specified in Schedule 1,
not being a machine or device specified in Schedule 2;

Appeal Board (上訴委員會) means the Appeal Board constituted under section 13;
appointed public officer (獲委公職人員) means any public officer appointed by the Secretary for the purposes of this Ordinance; (Added 17 of 2011 s. 28)
Chairman (主席) means the person appointed as Chairman of the Appeal Board under section 12;
licence (牌、牌照) means a licence granted under section 5 or renewed under section 8 to operate an amusement game centre;
licensee (持牌人) means a person to whom a licence has been granted;
machine or device (機器或裝置) means any machine or device of a class specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of the definition amusement game centre

### Amusement Game Centres Ordinance 《遊戲機中心條例》

3. Exemption
(1) The Secretary may for reasons connected with the operation, keeping, management or other control of an amusement game centre by order exempt—
(a) any place or class or description of places; and
(b) any trade, business or occupation situated or carried on within any area specified in the order,
from the operation of this Ordinance or any part thereof.
(2) An order under subsection (1) shall be published in the Gazette and may—
(a) be made subject to such conditions;
(b) be made subject to such geographical limitations;
(c) have effect for such period of time; or
(d) have such partial application,
as may be indicated in the order.

4. Prohibition on operating an amusement game centre without a licence
(1) Any person who on any occasion—
(a) operates, keeps, manages or otherwise has control of, an amusement game centre in regard to the operation of which a licence is not in force; or
(b) in any capacity assists, either directly or indirectly, in the operation, keeping, management or other control of an amusement game centre in regard to the operation of which a licence is not in force,
commits an offence.
(2) It shall not be a defence that a person charged with an offence under subsection (1) did not know that the operation of the amusement game centre which is the subject of the offence was not licensed.
(3) Any person who commits an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable—
(a) on first conviction, to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 6 months;
(b) on a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine of $200,000 and to imprisonment for 1 year;
(c) on any conviction, to a fine of $20,000 for each day during which the offence continues.
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2012)