### Government Rent (Assessment and Collection) Ordinance 《地租(評估及徵收)條例》

39. Use of returned requisition as evidence
(1) In any proceedings before the Lands Tribunal or the Court of Appeal a returned requisition is admissible as evidence of the facts stated in the returned requisition. A document purporting to be a returned requisition is presumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary— (Amended 32 of 2002 s. 40)
(a) to be a returned requisition;
(b) to have been made by the persons by whom it purports to have been made; and
(c) if it purports to have been made by a person as lessee of an applicable lease, or the owner or occupier of a tenement, or in any other capacity specified in the returned requisition, to have been made by him as the lessee, owner, occupier, or in that other capacity, as the case may be.
(2) In subsection (1), returned requisition (已交回的申報表) includes, in addition to a returned requisition within the meaning of section 2—
(a) a notice lodged with the Commissioner under section 119L(1), a notice submitted to the Commissioner under section 120AAZT(2), or a requisition served on a person under section 119T(1)(a) or 120AAZV(1), of the Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance (Cap. 7); or (Amended 36 of 2021 s. 16)
(b) a requisition served under section 5(1)(a) of the Rating Ordinance (Cap. 116) on the owner or occupier of a tenement,
and returned by him to the Commissioner containing or purporting to contain all or any of the particulars required to be given by him to the Commissioner. (Added 32 of 2002 s. 40)

40. False or incorrect statements
A person who knowingly makes a false statement—
(a) in the particulars given under section 31(1)(a); 
(b) to recover a refund of Government rent paid; or
(c) to obtain or retain an exemption from liability to pay Government rent for an interest held under an applicable lease,
is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 4.

### Government Rent (Assessment and Collection) Ordinance 《地租(評估及徵收)條例》

41. Refusal to give information and obstruction
A person who—
(a) refuses to give any of the particulars in the form specified under section 31(1)(a); 
(b) refuses to produce for inspection any receipts for rent, rent-books, accounts or other documents connected with the rent or value of an interest held under an applicable lease or a tenement that he is required to produce by virtue of section 31(1)(b);
(c) refuses to allow the Commissioner or any person authorized in writing by the Commissioner to take away for making copies any receipts for rent, rent-books, accounts or other documents connected with the rent or value of an interest held under an applicable lease or a tenement that the Commissioner or any person authorized in writing by the Commissioner is empowered under section 31(1)(c); or
(d) obstructs the Commissioner or any person authorized in writing by the Commissioner from entering, or inspecting, or measuring any land or tenement under section 31(2),
is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 3.

42. Additional penalty for loss in revenue
A person convicted of an offence under this Ordinance is, in addition to any penalty imposed, liable to a fine of treble the amount of Government rent which has been undercharged in consequence of the offence or which would have been undercharged if the offence has not been detected.

43. Complaints may be made, etc., within 1 year of offence
A complaint or information for an offence under this Ordinance may be made or laid at any time within 1 year after the date of the offence notwithstanding section 26 of the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap. 227).

44. Interim valuation after conviction
(1) The Commissioner may, in respect of an interest held under an applicable lease or a tenement comprised in land leased under an applicable lease, make a deletion from the Government Rent Roll, make an interim valuation, or both, if a person is convicted of an offence under this Ordinance in respect of the interest or tenement, and the commission of the offence has resulted in a lesser value being inserted in the Government Rent Roll for the interest or tenement or in the interest or tenement not appearing in the Government Rent Roll.
(2) A deletion and an interim valuation under subsection (1) are effective from the day following the conviction.

### Government Rent (Assessment and Collection) Ordinance 《地租(評估及徵收)條例》

45. Mode of service of notices, etc.
(1) Service of a requisition, notice or other document required to be served by this Ordinance may be effected—
(a) on the Commissioner, only by personal service or by post;
(b) on the lessee of an applicable lease or the owner of a tenement, by personal service, by leaving the requisition, notice or other document at the tenement or at the lessee’s or owner’s last known address or by sending it through the post to the tenement or to the lessee’s or owner’s last known address; or
(c) on the occupier of a tenement, by personal service, by leaving the requisition, notice or other document at the tenement or at the occupier’s last known address or by sending it through the post to the tenement or to the occupier’s last known address.
(2) A certificate purporting to be signed by a person who states in the certificate that he effected service under subsection (1) is evidence of the facts stated relating to that service.

46. Inadvertent misnomer
An inadvertent misnomer or misdescription of a person, place, lease or tenement in a document required under this Ordinance does not invalidate the document.

47. Validity of signature on notices
A requisition, declaration, notice, claim or other document required under this Ordinance or to be given for the purposes of this Ordinance by the Commissioner or a person authorized in writing by him under this Ordinance shall not be invalid solely because the name of the Commissioner or the person so authorized, as the case may be, is, if so authorized by the Commissioner, printed instead of signed therein.

60. (Omitted as spent—E.R. 1 of 2021)

### Patents Ordinance 《專利條例》

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

### Patents Ordinance 《專利條例》

3. Meaning of application for a standard patent (R)

4. Meaning of designated patent, etc.
(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
designated patent (指定專利) means a patent granted by a designated patent office;

designated patent application (指定專利申請) means—
(a) an application in a designated patent office for a patent, which application has been published under the law of the designated patent office;
(b) an international application which has been published and which has validly entered its national phase in a designated patent office;

designated patent office (指定專利當局) means a patent office designated for the purpose of this Ordinance under section 8.
(2) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—
(a) to a “corresponding designated patent” in relation to a standard patent (R), is a reference to the designated patent which was registered under section 27 in an application for the grant of the standard patent (R);
(b)  to a “corresponding designated patent application”—
(i) in relation to an application for a standard patent (R) for an invention, is a reference to the designated patent application in respect of that invention;
(ii) in relation to a standard patent (R), is a reference to the designated patent application in pursuance of which the corresponding designated patent was granted. (Amended 17 of 2016 s. 7)