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

45A. Power of presiding officer to enforce payment of fine, etc.
For the purposes of enforcing the payment of any fine imposed or giving effect to any sentence of imprisonment a presiding officer shall have the powers of a judge.
(Added 29 of 1974 s. 10)

46. Procedure generally
In any matter of procedure for which no provision is made by this Ordinance or by rules made pursuant to section 45 the procedure applicable shall be such as the presiding officer may determine. 

47. Immunity
(1) A presiding officer has, in the performance of his powers or duties under this Ordinance, the same privileges and immunities as a judge of the Court of First Instance in civil proceedings in that court.
(2) A witness before the tribunal shall be entitled to the same privileges and immunities as if he were a witness in civil proceedings in the Court of First Instance.
(Added 25 of 1999 s. 18)

48. Proceedings to which amendments made by Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance 2014 apply
The amendments made to this Ordinance by the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance 2014 (20 of 2014) apply in relation to all proceedings to which this Ordinance relates irrespective of when those proceedings were commenced.
(Added 20 of 2014 s. 16)

### Labour Tribunal (Fees) Rules 《勞資審裁處(費用)規則》

1. Citation
These rules may be cited as the Labour Tribunal (Fees) Rules.

2. Fees
The fees specified in the Schedule shall be payable in respect of all proceedings taken in the tribunal. 

3. Payment of fees
Save as otherwise provided in the Schedule, the fees specified therein shall be payable either by adhesive stamps or by causing the relevant document to be franked with the amount of the fee.

4. Power of registrar
The registrar may reduce, remit or defer payment of any fee specified in the Schedule as he may think fit in any particular case and shall, if he exercises this power, endorse on the relevant document a note of the reduction, remission or deferment and of the reasons therefor.

### Labour Tribunal (Suitors’ Funds) Rules 《勞資審裁處(訴訟人儲存金)規則》

1. Citation
These rules may be cited as the Labour Tribunal (Suitors’ Funds) Rules.

2. Interpretation
In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires—
funds (儲存金) means any money, or movable property or any part of it, standing in or to be placed to the registrar’s account and includes boxes and other effects; (L.N. 151 of 2015)
lodge (交存) means pay, transfer or deposit; (L.N. 151 of 2015)
order (命令) means an award or order of the tribunal or, in case of an appeal, of the Court, and includes any allocation by a presiding officer of the amount of an award;
registrar (司法常務主任) means the Registrar of the Labour Tribunal;
tribunal (審裁處) means the Labour Tribunal.
(21 of 1999 s. 11)

3. Lodgment of funds
(L.N. 151 of 2015)(1) All funds to be lodged in the tribunal must, unless required by any law to be dealt with in any particular way, be lodged with the registrar.
(2) Except where the circumstances otherwise require, the registrar must pay any funds lodged in the tribunal that are money to an account which may be interest earning or not (to be called the Labour Tribunal Suitors’ Funds Account) at such bank as the Director of Accounting Services shall direct.
(3) The presiding officer may direct that an amount equal to the moneys standing to the credit of a particular person on a particular date as recorded in the accounts kept pursuant to rule 5(1) be transferred from the account referred to in paragraph (2) to a separate interest-bearing account (to be opened in the name of the case) with such bank as the presiding officer shall direct and that presiding officer may, if he considers it appropriate, give a direction regarding the manner in which any interest is to be treated. (L.N. 64 of 1992)
(L.N. 151 of 2015)

### Labour Tribunal (Suitors’ Funds) Rules 《勞資審裁處(訴訟人儲存金)規則》

4. Registrar to give receipt
(1) The registrar shall give a receipt to any person by whom funds are lodged in the tribunal. (L.N. 151 of 2015)
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), every receipt given in respect of any lodgment must—
(a) be headed with the title of the cause or matter to which the lodgment is referable;
(b) contain adequate particulars of the lodgment; and
(c) be in Form 1 in the Schedule. (L.N. 151 of 2015)
(3) If money is lodged in the tribunal as funds, the receipt given in respect of the lodgment must—
(a) specify the amount of money received;
(b) specify the tribunal action number to which the lodgment is referable;
(c) specify the date of any order directing the lodgment;
(d) specify the party making the lodgment;
(e) specify the method of lodgment;
(f) contain a general description of the purposes of the lodgment; and
(g) be in Form 1A in the Schedule. (L.N. 151 of 2015)

5. Registrar to keep accounts and register
(L.N. 151 of 2015)(1) The registrar shall keep appropriate accounts in respect of all funds lodged in the tribunal that are money and of all dealings relating thereto. (L.N. 151 of 2015)
(2) No account kept by the registrar under this rule shall be credited with any sum by way of interest unless the presiding officer makes a direction under rule 3. (L.N. 64 of 1992)
(3) The registrar must keep a register of all funds lodged in the tribunal that are not money and of all dealings relating to them. (L.N. 151 of 2015)