### Building Management Ordinance 《建築物管理條例》

12. Land Registrar to maintain register of corporations
(1) The Land Registrar shall maintain a register of corporations, and permit any person to inspect the register at any reasonable time to ascertain, in connection with the management of buildings, the particulars of a corporation entered in the register under subsection (2). (Amended 5 of 2007 s. 12)
(2) The Land Registrar shall enter in the register the following particulars of each corporation—
(a) the name of the corporation;
(b) the name (if any) and address of the building;
(c) the address of the registered office of the corporation;
(d) the name and address of—
(i) the chairman of the management committee;
(ii) the vice-chairman (if any) of the management committee;
(iii) the secretary of the management committee;
(iv) the treasurer of the management committee; and
(v) any other person who is a member of the management committee but does not fall within the description of subparagraph (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv); (Replaced 5 of 2007 s. 12)
(da) the name and address of the insurance company with which the corporation has effected a policy of insurance under section 28(1) and the period covered by the policy of insurance; (Added 5 of 2007 s. 12)
(e) the name and address of any administrator;
(f) the particulars of any winding-up petition or winding-up order, as the case may be, required to be entered by him in the register under section 34A(2)(a). (Added 27 of 1993 s. 13)
(3) The secretary of the management committee shall, within 28 days of the date of any change in the particulars registered under subsection (2), other than the particulars referred to in paragraph (e) or (f) of that subsection, give notice thereof to the Land Registrar in such form as the Land Registrar may specify. (Amended 27 of 1993 ss. 13 & 42)
(4) In the event of a contravention of subsection (3), the secretary of the management committee shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $100 for each day during which the contravention continues. (Amended 27 of 1993 s. 42)
(5) Upon payment of such fee as may be prescribed, any person may—
(a) inspect the register and any document required to be submitted to the Land Registrar under this Ordinance; and
(b) require a copy or extract of any such register or document to be made and certified under the hand of the Land Registrar.
(Amended 8 of 1993 s. 3)

### Building Management Ordinance 《建築物管理條例》

13. Conclusiveness of certificate of registration
A certificate of registration issued under section 8(1), or an amended certificate of registration issued under section 10(4), as the case may be, in respect of a corporation shall be conclusive evidence that such corporation is incorporated under this Ordinance.
(Amended 8 of 1993 s. 3; 27 of 1993 s. 14)

14. Powers of corporation generally
(1) Subject to this Ordinance, at a meeting of a corporation any resolution may be passed with respect to the control, management and administration of the common parts or the renovation, improvement or decoration of those parts and any such resolution shall be binding on the management committee and all the owners. (Amended 12 of 1998 s. 4)
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), a corporation may by resolution at a meeting remove from office and replace any member (other than a member who is the tenants’ representative) of the management committee. (Amended 27 of 1993 s. 15)
(3) A resolution for the removal of so many members of the management committee as would reduce the number of members below the number required under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 shall not have effect unless there is appointed, at the meeting at which such resolution is passed, a sufficient number of further members as will comply with such requirements. (Amended 5 of 2007 s. 48)
(4) Paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 shall, with necessary modifications, apply for the purposes of appointing an owner to replace a member of the management committee by the corporation under subsection (2), as it applies for the purposes of appointing an owner to fill a vacancy in a management committee by the corporation. (Added 5 of 2007 s. 13) 

15. Tenants’ representative
(1) The members of an approved association may, by a resolution passed by a majority of the votes of the members voting either personally or by proxy, appoint or remove from office an occupier as the tenants’ representative. (Amended 5 of 2007 s. 49)
(2) In this section approved association (認可組織) means an association—
(a) formed to represent the interests of the occupiers; and
(b) which has been approved for the purposes of this section by the Authority or an authorized officer.

(Replaced 27 of 1993 s. 16)

### Building Management Ordinance 《建築物管理條例》

16. Rights etc. of owners to be exercised etc. by corporation
When the owners of a building have been incorporated under section 8, the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the owners in relation to the common parts of the building shall be exercised and performed by, and the liabilities of the owners in relation to the common parts of the building shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, be enforceable against, the corporation to the exclusion of the owners, and accordingly—
(a) any notice, order or other document which relates to any of the common parts of the building may be served upon the corporation at its registered office; and
(b) any proceedings in the tribunal in respect of any of the common parts of the building may be brought and pursued by or against the corporation. (Amended 27 of 1993 s. 42)

17. Enforcement of judgments etc. against a corporation
(1) If a judgment is given or an order is made against a corporation, execution to enforce the judgment or order may issue—
(a) against any property of the corporation; or
(b) with leave of the tribunal, against any owner.
(2) An application for leave under subsection (1)(b) shall be made by summons served personally upon the owner against whom execution is sought.
(Amended 27 of 1993 s. 42)

### Building Management Ordinance 《建築物管理條例》

19. Corporation may sell or register charges against flat in certain circumstances
(1) If a deed of mutual covenant provides that if an owner fails to pay any sum which is payable under the deed of mutual covenant, a person may sell that owner’s interest in the land or register a charge against such interest in the Land Registry, then, notwithstanding the provisions of the deed of mutual covenant, the corporation may, to the exclusion of such person, exercise such power of sale or register such charge in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as if it were the person referred to in the deed of mutual covenant. (Amended 8 of 1993 s. 2; 27 of 1993 s. 18)
(2) The reference in subsection (1) to “fails to pay any sum which is payable under the deed of mutual covenant” shall be construed to extend to the failure by an owner to pay the costs incurred by the management committee in connection with the exercise by it of the powers conferred by section 40(1)(a)(ii) or (b). (Added 27 of 1993 s. 18)