### Labour Tribunal Ordinance 《勞資審裁處條例》

6. Officers of the tribunal
(1) There shall be attached to the tribunal a registrar and such number of deputy or assistant registrars, bailiffs, clerks, interpreters and other officers as the Chief Executive may consider necessary.
(2) In addition to the powers and duties conferred or imposed by this and any other Ordinance, the registrar, any deputy or assistant registrar, bailiff, clerk, interpreter and other officer attached to the tribunal may exercise such powers and perform such duties, insofar as the same are applicable to the business of the tribunal, as those exercised or performed by the Registrar, deputy registrar, assistant registrar, bailiff, clerk, interpreter or other officer attached to the High Court. (Amended 92 of 1975 s. 58)
(3) Any act which under this or any other enactment is required or authorized to be done by the registrar may be performed by a deputy registrar or assistant registrar of the tribunal and any process of the tribunal may be executed by any bailiff thereof notwithstanding that it may have been directed personally to some other bailiff.
(4) In exercise of his powers and performance of his duties under this Ordinance, a person to whom this section applies shall be subject to the same liabilities and penalties and have the benefit of the same protection as attached by virtue of the High Court Ordinance (Cap. 4) to a person exercising or performing similar powers or duties under that Ordinance.
(5) The Commissioner may authorize any public officer to assist in conciliation under this Ordinance.
(Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)

### Labour Tribunal Ordinance 《勞資審裁處條例》

7. Jurisdiction of tribunal
(1) The tribunal shall have jurisdiction to inquire into, hear and determine the claims specified in the Schedule.
(2) Save as is provided in this Ordinance, no claim within the jurisdiction of the tribunal shall be actionable in any court in Hong Kong.
(3) Subsection (2) shall not operate to prevent the transfer of any claim to the tribunal in accordance with any rules made under section 73B of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336). (Added 67 of 1995 s. 91)
(4) Subsection (2) shall not operate to prevent the transfer of any claim to the tribunal in accordance with any rules made under section 73C of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336). (Added 86 of 1995 s. 88)
(5) Subsection (2) shall not operate to prevent the transfer of any claim to the tribunal in accordance with any rules made under section 73D of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336). (Added 91 of 1997 s. 69)
(6) Subsection (2) shall not operate to prevent the transfer of any claim to the tribunal in accordance with any rules made under section 73E of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336). (Added 29 of 2008 s. 85)

7A. Transitional provisions
A claim specified in the Schedule to the Minor Employment Claims Adjudication Board Ordinance (Cap. 453) which is pending or being heard before the tribunal immediately before the commencement of that Ordinance shall continue in and be inquired into, heard and determined by the tribunal.
(Added 61 of 1994 s. 46)

8. Power to amend Schedule
The Legislative Council may, by resolution, amend the Schedule.

### Labour Tribunal Ordinance 《勞資審裁處條例》

8A. Bankruptcy petitions and petitions for winding up
(1) The tribunal shall not have jurisdiction to inquire into, hear or determine—
(a) any claim brought by way of a bankruptcy petition under the Bankruptcy Ordinance (Cap. 6) or by way of a petition for winding up under the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32); or (Amended 28 of 2012 ss. 912 & 920)
(b) any claim submitted to proof in a bankruptcy or winding up under those Ordinances.
(2) An order of a court made on or after 1 March 1973 on a petition mentioned in subsection (1), and anything done under the order, including any decision on a claim submitted to proof, shall not be invalid by reason only that the claim upon which the petition was founded or the claim submitted to proof was within the jurisdiction of the tribunal.
(Added 40 of 1981 s. 2)

10. Declining jurisdiction
(1) The tribunal may, at any stage of proceedings, if it is of the opinion that for any reason the claim should not be heard and determined by it, decline jurisdiction.
(2) The tribunal may, when it declines jurisdiction under subsection (1), transfer the claim to the Court of First Instance, the District Court or the Small Claims Tribunal, in such manner as may be prescribed. (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2; 25 of 1999 s. 4)
(3) This section shall not apply to any claim transferred to the tribunal in accordance with any rules made under section 73B of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336). (Added 67 of 1995 s. 91)
(4) This section shall not apply to any claim transferred to the tribunal in accordance with any rules made under section 73C of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336). (Added 86 of 1995 s. 88)
(5) This section shall not apply to any claim transferred to the tribunal in accordance with any rules made under section 73D of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336). (Added 91 of 1997 s. 69)
(6) This section shall not apply to any claim transferred to the tribunal in accordance with any rules made under section 73E of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336). (Added 29 of 2008 s. 86)

### Labour Tribunal Ordinance 《勞資審裁處條例》

11. Filing claims
(1) A proceeding in the tribunal shall be commenced by filing a claim with the registrar.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), a claim shall be in writing in the prescribed form, in either the English or Chinese language, and shall be signed by the claimant.
(3) The registrar may permit a claim to be made orally and shall cause it to be reduced to writing, in the language in which it is made, and shall supply a copy thereof to the claimant.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), a claim shall be signed by each claimant and person represented as being correct to the best of his knowledge and belief.
(5) In any joint or representative claim—
(a) the registrar may permit the claim to be filed if it has not been signed by all the claimants or persons represented named therein on condition that all such claimants or persons will do so before the date of hearing; and
(b) the name of a claimant or person who has not so signed the claim before it is heard may, if the presiding officer so directs, be struck out of the claim and the amount of the claim reduced accordingly.

12. Contents of claims
A claim shall contain—
(a) the name and address of each claimant, and, in the case of a representative claim, the name and address of each person represented;
(b) the name and address of each defendant;
(c) the sum of money (whether liquidated or unliquidated) claimed by each claimant or person represented; (Amended 20 of 2014 s. 11)
(d) such particulars of the claim as shall be reasonably sufficient to inform the defendant of the grounds for the claim and of the manner in which the amount claimed by each claimant or person represented has been calculated.