### Overseas Trust Bank (Acquisition) Ordinance 《海外信託銀行(接收)條例》

9. Compensation
(1) (Repealed 80 of 1993 s. 6)(2) Any person who suffers loss by reason of the operation of section 4, the cessation of any right under section 5 or the disclaimer of a transaction under section 6(3) shall, in accordance with any regulations under section 10 read with subsection (3), be entitled to compensation in respect of such loss.
(3) The following matters may be prescribed—
(a) the manner of determining the amount of compensation payable under subsection (2);
(b) the factors to be taken into account or disregarded, and the principles to be applied in determining such amount;
(c) the time and manner of payment of such compensation;
(d) whether and what interest shall be payable in respect of such compensation;
(e) the denial of compensation under subsection (2) to any former director who has engaged in any transaction which could be disclaimed under section 6(3) if it were in whole or in part unperformed or unexpired;
(f) any matter incidental to the matters specified in subsection (2) or paragraphs (a) to (e). (Amended 80 of 1993 s. 6)

10. Power to make regulations
(1) The Financial Secretary may make regulations—
(a) prescribing anything that may be prescribed under this Ordinance; and (Amended 80 of 1993 s. 7)
(b) (Repealed 80 of 1993 s. 7)(c) providing for the better carrying into effect of the purposes and provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) Regulations under subsection (1) shall have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622), the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32), the Banking Ordinance (Cap. 155) and the articles of association of the company or any subsidiary thereof. (Amended 27 of 1986 s. 137; 28 of 2012 ss. 912 & 920)

### Community Service Orders Ordinance 《社會服務令條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Community Service Orders Ordinance.

2. Interpretation
(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
community service order (社會服務令) means an order made under section 4(1);
court (法院、法庭) includes a magistrate;
offender (罪犯) means a person in respect of whom a community service order is in force or a court is considering making such an order;
principal probation officer (首席感化主任) means the person appointed to be the principal probation officer under section 9 of the Probation of Offenders Ordinance (Cap. 298);
probation officer (感化主任) means a person appointed to be a probation officer under section 9 of the Probation of Offenders Ordinance (Cap. 298);
supervising probation officer (督導感化主任) means the supervising probation officer referred to in section 5(3).
(2) An offence is to be treated as punishable with imprisonment for the purposes of this Ordinance notwithstanding any prohibition or restriction imposed by any Ordinance on the imprisonment of young offenders.

3. Application
The power to make community service orders may be exercised by any court sitting at a particular place where that court is notified by the Director of Social Welfare that facilities for the administration of community service order are available in respect of orders made at that place.

### Community Service Orders Ordinance 《社會服務令條例》

4. Power to make community service orders
(1) Where a person of or over 14 years of age is convicted of an offence punishable with imprisonment, the court which sentences him for that offence may make an order requiring him to perform, during the life of the order, unpaid work in accordance with this Ordinance for such number of hours, not exceeding 240, as may be specified in the order.
(2) A community service order may be made against an offender—
(a) in addition to any other sentence that the court imposes; or
(b) instead of any other sentence that the court may impose, unless such other sentence is mandatory.
(3) A court shall not make a community service order against an offender unless—
(a) the offender consents to the making of such an order; and
(b) the court is satisfied—
(i) after considering a report by a probation officer about the offender and his circumstances and, if the court thinks it necessary, hearing a probation officer, that the offender is a suitable person to perform work under such an order; and
(ii) that provision can be made for the offender to perform work under such an order.
(4) More than one community service order may be made by one or more courts in respect of the same offender so as to be in force at the same time provided that the total number of hours that remain to be spent by the offender in performing work under the orders does not at any time exceed 240.
(5) Before making a community service order the court shall explain to the offender in ordinary language—
(a) the purpose and effect of the order (and in particular the conditions and requirements that may be specified in it under section 5(1) and the requirements of section 6(1));
(b) the consequences which may follow under section 8 if he fails to comply with any of those conditions and requirements or under section 9 if he commits an offence during the period of the community service order; and
(c) that the court has under section 10 the power to review the order on application either of the offender or of the supervising probation officer.

### Community Service Orders Ordinance 《社會服務令條例》

5. Contents and copies of community service orders
(1) A court which makes a community service order—
(a) may specify in the order conditions to be complied with by the offender during the period that the order is in force;
(b) shall specify in the order a place at which or a person to whom, and a time when or within which, the offender shall present himself for the purpose of enabling the administration of the order to commence;
(c) shall forthwith give a copy of the order to the offender and send a copy of it to the principal probation officer.
(2) The principal probation officer shall ensure that a copy of any community service order which is sent to him under subsection (1)(c) is supplied to the offender’s supervising probation officer.
(3) An offender’s supervising probation officer shall be—
(a) the probation officer appointed or assigned to the area in which the offender from time to time resides, or such other probation officer as the principal probation officer nominates; and
(b) (Repealed 68 of 1995 s. 54)

6. Obligations of offenders under community service orders, etc.
(1) Where a community service order is in force against an offender, he shall—
(a) perform, for the number of hours specified in the order, such work and at such times as may be directed by his supervising probation officer;
(b) perform that work in a satisfactory manner;
(c) comply with any conditions and requirements specified in the order under section 5(1);
(d) comply with any reasonable direction of his supervising probation officer including any direction designed to enable that officer to provide rehabilitative counselling and guidance; and
(e) immediately notify his supervising probation officer of any change in his address.
(2) The directions given by a supervising probation officer for the purposes of subsection (1) shall, so far as practicable, take account of the offender’s religious beliefs and the times, if any, when he normally works or attends a school or other educational establishment.
(3) The type of work that an offender may be required to perform under a community service order shall be that specified in the Schedule.

7. Duration of community service orders
A community service order shall remain in force against an offender until—
(a) the offender has performed the work required under it for the number of hours specified in it;
(b) the expiration of a period of 12 months commencing on the date on which the order was made or, where that period is extended under section 10(1), the expiration of that period as so extended; or
(c) the order is revoked under section 8, 9 or 10,
whichever first occurs.