### Residential Properties (First-hand Sales) Ordinance 《一手住宅物業銷售條例》

55. Owner must not enter into agreement without certain provisions
(1) This section applies to—
(a) where a preliminary agreement for sale and purchase has been entered into in respect of the specified residential property, an agreement for sale and purchase in respect of the residential property; or
(b) where no preliminary agreement for sale and purchase has been entered into in respect of the specified residential property, an agreement for sale and purchase in respect of the specified residential property.
(2) The owner must not enter into the agreement for sale and purchase with any person unless that agreement contains the provisions set out in Schedule 5, 6 or 7 (as applicable in accordance with subsection (3))—
(a) with additional information inserted in accordance with the instructions specified in those provisions as printed in italics; and
(b) with deletions made in accordance with the instructions specified in those provisions as marked with an asterisk (*), a gamma (γ), a beta (β), a theta (θ), a pi (π), a sigma (Σ), an omega (Ω) or a psi (Ψ).
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the agreement for sale and purchase—
(a) must contain the provisions set out in Schedule 5 in either of the following situations—
(i) the development is an uncompleted development;
(ii) for a development divided into 2 or more phases, the phase of which the residential property forms part is an uncompleted phase;
(b) must contain the provisions set out in Schedule 6 in either of the following situations—
(i) the development is a completed development pending compliance;
(ii) for a development divided into 2 or more phases, the phase of which the residential property forms part is a completed phase pending compliance; or
(c) must contain the provisions set out in Schedule 7 in either of the following situations—
(i) the development is a completed development but is not a completed development pending compliance;
(ii) for a development divided into 2 or more phases, the phase of which the residential property forms part is a completed phase but is not a completed phase pending compliance.

### Residential Properties (First-hand Sales) Ordinance 《一手住宅物業銷售條例》

56. Provision supplementary to sections 54 and 55
(1) For the purposes of sections 54 and 55, a preliminary agreement for sale and purchase, or an agreement for sale and purchase, is to be regarded as having contained the provisions set out in Schedule 4, 5, 6 or 7 (as applicable) if—
(a) in the case of a preliminary agreement for sale and purchase, or an agreement for sale and purchase, in English, the preliminary agreement or the agreement contains the provisions set out in Part 1 of that Schedule;
(b) in the case of a preliminary agreement for sale and purchase, or an agreement for sale and purchase, in Chinese, the preliminary agreement or the agreement contains the provisions set out in Part 2 of that Schedule; or
(c) in the case of a preliminary agreement for sale and purchase, or an agreement for sale and purchase, in English and Chinese, the preliminary agreement or the agreement contains the provisions set out in Parts 1 and 2 of that Schedule.
(2) Where a preliminary agreement for sale and purchase, or an agreement for sale and purchase, contains a provision set out in Schedule 4, 5, 6 or 7 in compliance with section 54 or 55(2), the provision prevails over any other provision of the preliminary agreement or the agreement that is inconsistent with it.

57. Offences relating to sections 54 and 55
(1) If section 54 or 55(2) is contravened, the owner commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $500,000.
(2) Section 54 or 55(2) is not to be regarded as having been contravened only because—
(a) when a provision set out in Schedule 4, 5, 6 or 7 is incorporated into a preliminary agreement for sale and purchase or an agreement for sale and purchase—
(i) the provision has been assigned as a schedule to that preliminary agreement or that agreement; or
(ii) the clause number of the provision has been reassigned; or
(b) a cross reference to that provision in another provision in that preliminary agreement or that agreement has been revised accordingly.
(3) Subject to section 52(2), a contravention of section 54 or 55(2) does not affect the validity or enforceability of the preliminary agreement for sale and purchase or the agreement for sale and purchase.

### Residential Properties (First-hand Sales) Ordinance 《一手住宅物業銷售條例》

58. Register of Transactions to be kept by vendor
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the vendor must keep for the purposes of section 60 one (and only one) register of transactions for the development.
(2) If the development is divided into 2 or more phases, the vendor must keep for the purposes of section 60 one (and only one) register of transactions for each phase.
(3) If subsection (1) or (2) is contravened, the vendor commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $500,000.

### Residential Properties (First-hand Sales) Ordinance 《一手住宅物業銷售條例》

60. Register of Transactions to be made available to general public
(1) On a date of the sale mentioned in section 14(1), the vendor must make the Register of Transactions for the development available for inspection by the general public free of charge at the place where the sale is to take place.
(2) During the period specified in subsection (3), the vendor must make an electronic copy of the Register of Transactions available for inspection on the website designated by the vendor for the development for the purposes of this Part.
(3) The period is one that begins on the date on which the Register of Transactions is first made available under subsection (1) and ends on the first day on which the first assignment of each residential property in relation to which section 59(1) applies has been registered in the Land Registry.
(4) As soon as practicable after the vendor has made an entry into the Register of Transactions for the development under section 59(2), (3), (4) or (5), the vendor must provide an electronic copy of that Register of Transactions to the following for the purpose of the electronic database established under section 89(1)—
(a) if a public officer or person is delegated under section 89(2) with the power to establish and maintain that database, the public officer or person;
(b) if no public officer or person is so delegated, the Authority.
(5) If subsection (1) is contravened, the vendor commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $500,000.
(6) If subsection (2) or (4) is contravened, the vendor commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 6.

61. Purpose of Register of Transactions
The purpose of the Register of Transactions for the development is to provide a member of the public with the transaction information relating to the development, as set out in the Register, for understanding the residential property market conditions in Hong Kong.

62. Application of sections 59 and 60 in case of phased development
If the development is divided into 2 or more phases, sections 59 and 60 apply to a Register of Transactions for the phase of which the residential property forms part as if a reference in those sections to the development were a reference to that phase.