### Fugitive Offenders Ordinance 《逃犯條例》

24. Chief Executive to give notice to Central People’s Government in relation to certain matters, etc.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Chief Executive shall cause the Central People’s Government to be given notice of— (Amended 71 of 1999 s. 3)
(a) any proceedings that have been instituted for the surrender of a person to Hong Kong from a prescribed place pursuant to prescribed arrangements;
(b) any proceedings that have been instituted for the surrender of a person from Hong Kong to a prescribed place pursuant to prescribed arrangements where an order of committal has been made in relation to the person;
(c) where a person is to be surrendered to Hong Kong from a prescribed place pursuant to prescribed arrangements, the place or places, if any, between the prescribed place and Hong Kong through which it is proposed to transport the person for the purposes of so surrendering him;
(d) where a person is to be surrendered from Hong Kong to a prescribed place, the place or places, if any, between Hong Kong and the prescribed place through which it is proposed to transport the person for the purposes of so surrendering him;
(e) any proposed transport through Hong Kong of a person who is being surrendered to a place outside Hong Kong by another place outside Hong Kong (and whether or not either such place is a prescribed place).
(2) A notice under subsection (1) shall—
(a) be accompanied by the prescribed documents and contain the prescribed particulars; and
(b) be given in the prescribed manner.
(3) Where the Central People’s Government issues an instruction to the Chief Executive to take, or not to take, an action—
(a) in relation to any matter referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of subsection (1); and
(b) on the ground that if the instruction were not complied with the interests of the People’s Republic of China in matters of defence or foreign affairs would be significantly affected,

then the Chief Executive shall comply with that instruction, but no such instruction shall operate to affect the responsibilities that the Chief Executive shall discharge in accordance with law in dealing with any case to which this subsection applies. (Amended 71 of 1999 s. 3)
(4) For the purposes of this section, proceedings have been instituted for the surrender of a person—
(a) to Hong Kong from a prescribed place, where there has been issued to that place—
(i) an application for the issue of a warrant for the provisional arrest of the person in relation to the offence for which such surrender is sought; or
(ii) a request for the surrender of the person to Hong Kong in respect of the offence for which such surrender is sought;
(b) from Hong Kong to a prescribed place, where a warrant (whether provisional or otherwise) has been issued in Hong Kong for the arrest of the person in relation to the offence for which such surrender is sought.

### Fugitive Offenders Ordinance 《逃犯條例》

25. Amendment of Schedules
The Chief Executive in Council may, by order, amend Schedule 1 or 2.
(Amended 71 of 1999 s. 3)

26. Regulations
The Chief Executive in Council may make regulations— (Amended 71 of 1999 s. 3)
(a) prescribing anything that is required or permitted to be prescribed under this Ordinance;
(b) prescribing the form of any order, warrant or certificate required by section 22 to be in the prescribed form (including prescribing 2 or more forms of any such order, warrant or certificate, whether as alternatives, or to provide for particular circumstances or particular cases);
(c) generally for the better and more effectual carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance, including incidental, consequential, evidential and supplemental provisions.

27. Transitional
(1) Where—
(a) proceedings have been instituted for the surrender of a person (the relevant person

28. (Omitted as spent—E.R. 1 of 2013)

### Fire Safety (Commercial Premises) Ordinance 《消防安全(商業處所)條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 4 of 2020)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Fire Safety (Commercial Premises) Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 1 of 2012)

2. Purpose of Ordinance
The purpose of this Ordinance is to provide better protection from the risk of fire for occupants and users of, and visitors to, certain kinds of commercial premises and commercial buildings.
(Amended 15 of 1998 s. 3)

3. Interpretation
(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
authorized officer (獲授權人員) means a public officer authorized under section 14 or a person taken to be an authorized officer because of that section;

commercial building (商業建築物) means the whole of a non-domestic building—
(a) which contains any number of units therein comprising one or more levels including basements or underground parking areas, and which was constructed to be used or is being used for the purposes of an office, business, trade or any entertainment, and does not include the whole of a non-domestic building which was constructed to be used or is being used exclusively for the purposes of a—
(i) hotel, serviced apartment, guest-house or similar establishment;
(ii) kindergarten, school, college, university or similar educational establishment;
(iii) hospital, clinic, medical centre, rehabilitation centre or similar establishment;
(iv) carpark;
(v) home for elderly persons, home for persons with disabilities, child care centre, nursery or social services centre; (Amended 12 of 2011 s. 46)
(vi) factory or industrial undertaking;
(vii) godown, warehouse or place of bulk storage;
(viii) utilities building or power station or sub-station; or
(ix) cinema or theatre; and
(b) being a building—
(i) the plans of the building works of which were first submitted to the Building Authority for his approval under regulation 29 of the Building (Administration) Regulations (Cap. 123 sub. leg. A) on or before 1 March 1987; or
(ii) which was constructed on or before 1 March 1987 where no plans of the building works of the building were submitted to the Building Authority for his approval under regulation 29 of the Building (Administration) Regulations (Cap. 123 sub. leg. A) on or before that date,

and excludes a building which was partly constructed to be used or is being partly used for domestic or industrial purposes; (Added 15 of 1998 s. 4)
domestic (住用), for the purposes of the definition of commercial building

### Fire Safety (Commercial Premises) Ordinance 《消防安全(商業處所)條例》

4. Application of Ordinance
(1) This Ordinance applies to—
(a) prescribed commercial premises comprising or forming part of an existing building that was constructed on or before 2 May 1997 as well as to prescribed commercial premises comprising or forming part of an existing building that is constructed after that date; (Amended 7 of 2020 s. 57)
(b) any specified commercial building listed in Schedule 4.
(2) The fact that the requirements of this Ordinance relating to specified commercial buildings apply to any particular commercial building shall not be regarded as having the effect of disapplying the requirements of this Ordinance or of any other enactment, not relating to specified commercial buildings, from that particular commercial building.
(3) The fact that part of any particular commercial building falls within the meaning assigned to prescribed commercial premises