### Landscape Architects Registration Ordinance 《園境師註冊條例》

30. Offences and penalties
(1) Any person who—
(a) having been summoned by an inquiry committee to attend as a witness or to produce a document or other thing under section 24 without reasonable excuse refuses or fails to do so;
(b) attends as a witness before an inquiry committee and, without lawful excuse, refuses or fails to answer any question put to him by the inquiry committee;
(c) fraudulently obtains registration as a registered landscape architect for himself or any other person;
(d) obtains registration as a registered landscape architect for himself or any other person by means of any misleading, false or fraudulent representation or statement, either orally or in writing;
(e) makes or causes to be made any falsification in the register;
(f) impersonates or falsely represents himself as being the person referred to in any certificate or document presented to the Board or any inquiry committee in connection with its functions under this Ordinance;
(g) falsely takes or uses any name, initials, title, addition or description implying that his name is entered in the register;
(h) not being a registered landscape architect, knowingly permits the use of or uses in connection with his business or profession the description—
(i) “landscape architect”;
(ii) “registered landscape architect”;
(iii) the initials “R.L.A.”; or
(iv) any initials or abbreviations or words intended to cause, or which may reasonably cause, any person to believe that the person using the initials or abbreviations is on the register;
(i) not being on the register, advertises or represents himself as a registered landscape architect or knowingly permits himself to be so advertised or represented;
(j) holds himself out to be ordinarily resident in Hong Kong at the time of making an application for registration when he is not so ordinarily resident,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
(2) Subsection (1)(h) shall not apply in relation to the use by any member of any body or institute of landscape architects formed outside Hong Kong who is not a registered landscape architect, of any description or initials which he is entitled to use under the constitution of that body or institute if by such use he does not represent that his name is entered on the register. (Amended 57 of 1999 s. 3)

31. Certificate as evidence
A certificate, purporting to be signed by the Registrar, that the name of a person has or has not been entered in or has been removed or ordered to be removed from the register shall for all purposes, without further proof, be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

### Landscape Architects Registration Ordinance 《園境師註冊條例》

32. Saving
Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of the Central Authorities or the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the Basic Law and other laws or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned or referred to in this Ordinance and those claiming by, through, from or under them.
(Amended 57 of 1999 s. 3)

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

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Government Rent (Assessment and Collection) Ordinance.

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

3. Application
This Ordinance applies to interests in land held under—
(a) a lease extended by the operation of section 6 of the New Territories Leases (Extension) Ordinance (Cap. 150);
(b) a lease under which there is an express obligation to pay an annual rent of an amount equal to 3% of the rateable value from time to time of the land leased.

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

5. Established village
(1) The Director may satisfy himself by examining the schedule to a block lease granted by or on behalf of the Governor that a village was in existence in Hong Kong in 1898.
(2) The village about which the Director is satisfied was in existence in 1898 is an established village.

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

7. Rateable value of land leased
(1) The rateable value of the land leased under an applicable lease is an aggregate of the rateable values of the tenements comprised in the land leased. The Commissioner may apportion the rateable values in accordance with this Ordinance.
(2) The rateable value of the land leased under an applicable lease or of any tenement comprised in the land leased can be ascertained by reference to the rateable value set out in respect thereof in—
(a) the Government Rent Roll; or (Amended E.R. 1 of 2021)
(b) if an interim valuation has been made, the notice of interim valuation,
and the rateable value so set out in the Government Rent Roll or the notice of interim valuation, as the case may be, shall, subject to other provisions of this Ordinance, be regarded as the rateable value of the land leased or the tenement, as the case may be.

8. Valuation of land and tenements
(1) The Commissioner may value land held under an applicable lease and any tenement comprised therein at any time to ascertain the rateable value for the purposes of section 7.
(2) The Rating Ordinance (Cap. 116) applies to the ascertainment of rateable values under this Ordinance subject to any specific provisions of this Ordinance.
(3) For the purpose of this Ordinance, where the rateable value of a tenement does not in the opinion of the Commissioner exceed the minimum rateable value, the rateable value of the tenement shall be deemed to be $1.

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

9. Tenements situated partly on land leased
(1) The Commissioner is required to apportion the rateable value of the tenements in a building that stands on land, part of which is subject to Government rent and part of which is not, based on the areas of the lots or in such other reasonable manner as the Commissioner may determine.
(2) A tenement is taken to be comprised partly in any land leased under an applicable lease if the building in which it is contained stands partly on that land.
(3) Where a tenement is taken to be comprised partly in any land leased under an applicable lease, only that proportion of the rateable value of the tenement, as apportioned under subsection (1) is to be included in the Government Rent Roll.
(4) The Commissioner has the discretion to determine whether a tenement is wholly or partly comprised in any land leased under an applicable lease, and if so, to ascertain the rateable value attributable to the land leased.
(5) Where the tenements involve land situated at different locations throughout Hong Kong under a number of leases some of which are subject to Government rent and the others are not, the Commissioner may issue guidelines in the form of rules, formulae, principles and assumptions for the apportionment of the rateable values of the tenements for Government rent purposes.
(6) The Commissioner is required to apportion the rateable value in such reasonable manner as he determines where the tenement is partly subject to Government rent by reason of separate liability of individual owners of the land comprising the tenement.

10. Direction to prepare Government Rent Roll
(1) The Chief Executive may— (Amended 3 of 2000 s. 3)
(a) at any time direct the Commissioner to prepare, in respect of the rateable values of tenements comprised in land leased under an applicable lease, a new Government Rent Roll or any new part of a Government Rent Roll, whether or not by way of replacement of an existing Government Rent Roll or any part of an existing Government Rent Roll, in accordance with section 11; and (Amended 78 of 1999 s. 7)
(b) at the same time or at any other time, for the purposes of that new Government Rent Roll or that new part of the Government Rent Roll, as the case may be, designate a date by reference to which the rateable values of any of the tenements are to be ascertained.
(2) Notice of a direction and a designation under subsection (1) is to be published in the Gazette.