### Construction Workers Registration Ordinance 《建造業工人註冊條例》

75. Legal claims and pending legal proceedings, etc.
(1) Legal claims (whether present or future, actual or contingent) by or against the Authority (including any judicial or administrative proceedings instituted by or against the Authority and any accrued right of appeal) that existed immediately before the commencement date do not abate by reason of the dissolution under section 71 and may be continued or enforced by or against the Council.
(2) If immediately before the commencement date, any legal proceedings to which the Authority is a party are pending, the Council is to, as from that date, be substituted as a party to those proceedings in place of the Authority.

76. Effect of existing agreement, etc.
(1) Any agreement, arrangement or contract made or entered into or other transaction effected or other thing done by, to or in relation to the Authority that was in force or effective immediately before the commencement date, or that is to take effect on or after that date, has effect as if made, entered into, effected or done by, to or in relation to the Council.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), any lease, tenancy, permit or licence granted to the Authority that was in force or effective immediately before the commencement date, or that is to take effect on or after that date, has effect as if granted to the Council.
(3) Without limiting subsection (1), any appointment made under section 12(2) of the pre-amended Ordinance that was in force immediately before the commencement date, or that takes effect on or after that date, has effect as if made by the Registration Board under section 12(2) of this Ordinance.
(4) Without limiting subsection (1), any appointment made under section 14(2) of the pre-amended Ordinance that was in force immediately before the commencement date, or that takes effect on or after that date, has effect as if made by the Registration Board under section 14(2) of this Ordinance.
(5) Without limiting subsection (1), any appointment made under section 16 of the pre-amended Ordinance that was in force immediately before the commencement date, or that takes effect on or after that date, has effect as if made by the Council under section 16 of this Ordinance.
(6) Any training course specified under section 41(1) of the pre-amended Ordinance is deemed to have been specified by the Council under section 41(1) of this Ordinance.
(7) Any development course specified under section 44(8) of the pre-amended Ordinance is deemed to have been specified by the Council under section 44(8) of this Ordinance.
(8) Nothing in this section makes valid any act or document which is otherwise invalid.

### Construction Workers Registration Ordinance 《建造業工人註冊條例》

77. References to Authority
As from the commencement date, the references to the Authority in the following are to be taken as references to the Council—
(a) any agreement or contract;
(b) any process or other document issued, prepared or employed for the purposes of any proceedings before a court, tribunal or similar body; and
(c) any other document (other than an enactment) relating to or affecting any property, right, liability or obligation of the Authority vested in the Council under section 72.

78. Delivery of books, etc.
All books, accounts, minutes and other documents and equipment belonging to the Authority and under its control immediately before the commencement date are to be delivered to the Council on that date by the person who had the care and custody of those documents or equipment immediately before that date.

79. Record of property
Any property of the Authority which, immediately before the commencement date, was standing in the books of a bank, company or other corporation is to be transferred in those books to the Council at the request of the Council, by the bank, company or other corporation.

80. Continuance of employment
(1) The employment of an employee of the Authority is not to be terminated by reason of the dissolution of the Authority.
(2) As from the commencement date, a person who, immediately before that date, was an employee of the Authority under a valid contract of employment and who, if not for the dissolution, would have been its employee under the contract on that date, becomes an employee of the Council on terms and conditions no less favourable than those that applied immediately before that date to the employment of the person with the Authority.
(3) There is no break or interruption in the employment of a person referred to in subsection (2) by reason of the commencement of this Part.
(4) This section applies despite sections 17 and 18 of the Construction Industry Council Ordinance (Cap. 587).

### Construction Workers Registration Ordinance 《建造業工人註冊條例》

81. Submission of reports on activities of Authority
(1) Within 6 months after the commencement date, the Council must submit to the Secretary—
(a) a report on the activities of the Authority during the specified period;
(b) a copy of the statement of accounts of the Authority in respect of the specified period; and
(c) the auditor’s report on the statement of accounts.
(2) The Secretary must cause the documents received under subsection (1) to be laid on the table of the Legislative Council.
(3) The Secretary may extend the period for submitting the documents under subsection (1).
(4) In this section—
specified period (指明期間) means the period beginning on the day next following the end of the last financial year of the Authority in respect of which reports and statements had been submitted under section 11 of the pre-amended Ordinance and ending on the day immediately before the commencement date;
statement of accounts (帳目表) includes an income and expenditure account and a balance sheet.

82. Council to appoint auditor for purposes of section 81
(1) The Council must appoint an auditor for the purposes of section 81.
(2) The auditor appointed under subsection (1) must—
(a) audit the statement of accounts referred to in section 81; and
(b) submit a report on it to the Council.
(3) The auditor is entitled to—
(a) have access to all books of account, vouchers and other financial records of the Authority that are under the Council’s control; and
(b) require any information and explanations of those books, vouchers and records that the auditor thinks fit.

### Construction Workers Registration Ordinance 《建造業工人註冊條例》

83. Change of Registrar
(1) Anything which immediately before the commencement date is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Registrar appointed under section 36(1) of the pre-amended Ordinance may be carried on or completed by, or in relation to, the Registrar appointed under section 36(1) of this Ordinance in accordance with this Ordinance.
(2) The Register of Construction Workers established and maintained under section 37(1)(a) of the pre-amended Ordinance is deemed to have been established and maintained under section 37(1)(a) of this Ordinance by the Registrar appointed under section 36(1) of this Ordinance.
(3) Any registration card issued under section 46 of the pre-amended Ordinance that was in force immediately before the commencement date has effect as if issued under section 46 of this Ordinance by the Registrar appointed under section 36(1) of this Ordinance.

### Merchant Shipping (Security of Ships and Port Facilities) Ordinance 《商船(船舶及港口設施保安)條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Security of Ships and Port Facilities) Ordinance.

2. Ordinance binds the Government
This Ordinance binds the Government.