### Federation of Hong Kong Industries Ordinance 《香港工業總會條例》

29. Keeping of accounts
The general committee shall cause to be kept proper accounts of the Federation and proper records in relation thereto.

30. Income and expenditure account and balance sheet
(1) The general committee shall cause to be prepared and laid before the Federation at the annual general meeting an income and expenditure account for the period since the preceding account made up to a date not earlier than the date of the meeting by more than 9 months.
(2) The general committee shall cause to be made out in every year, and laid before the Federation at the annual general meeting, a balance sheet as at the date to which the income and expenditure account is made up.

31. Appointment of auditors
(1) The Federation shall at each annual general meeting appoint an auditor or auditors to hold office until the next annual general meeting.
(2) The general committee may fill any casual vacancy in the office of auditor, but while any such vacancy continues the surviving or continuing auditor or auditors, if any, may act.
(3) The remuneration of the auditors shall be fixed by the Federation in general meeting, save that the remuneration of an auditor appointed to fill a casual vacancy, may be fixed by the general committee.

32. Auditors’ report
The auditors shall make a report to the members on the accounts examined by them and on every balance sheet laid before the Federation at the annual general meeting during their term of office, and the report shall state—
(a) whether or not they have obtained all the information and explanations they have required; and
(b) whether, in their opinion, the balance sheet referred to in the report is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the Federation’s affairs according to the best of their information and the explanations given to them, and as shown by the books of the Federation.

33. Balance sheet and report to be sent to members
A copy of the balance sheet made out in accordance with the provisions of section 30(2), together with a copy of the auditors’ report thereon, shall be sent to every member not less than 10 days before the annual general meeting.

### Federation of Hong Kong Industries Ordinance 《香港工業總會條例》

35. Cesser of membership of general committee
(1) Any person who is a member of the general committee by virtue of the provisions of section 34(1)(a) shall cease to be a member thereof if under the provisions of section 46(3) he ceases to be the chairman of the scheduled group.
(2) (Repealed 79 of 1994 s. 18)(3) Any person who is appointed by the Chief Executive under the provisions of section 34(1)(c), or who is appointed under the provisions of section 34(1B), to be a member of the general committee shall cease to be a member thereof if he— (Amended 81 of 1970 s. 5; 65 of 2000 s. 3)
(a) is adjudicated bankrupt or makes a composition or scheme of arrangement with his creditors;
(b) becomes of unsound mind; or
(c) resigns his office by notice in writing addressed—
(i) to the Chief Executive, in the case of a person appointed by the Chief Executive under the provisions of section 34(1)(c); or (Amended 65 of 2000 s. 3)
(ii) to the secretary, in the case of a person appointed under the provisions of section 34(1B). (Replaced 81 of 1970 s. 5)

### Federation of Hong Kong Industries Ordinance 《香港工業總會條例》

37. Chairman and deputy chairmen of general committee
(1) At its first meeting after any annual general meeting of the Federation, the general committee shall elect one of its members to be the chairman thereof and 3 of its members, or such other number as the general committee establishes by resolution, to be deputy chairmen thereof.
(2) The persons so elected shall, save as provided in subsection (3), hold office until immediately after the ensuing annual general meeting of the Federation.
(3) A person so elected shall cease to be chairman or a deputy chairman, as the case may be, of the general committee if he ceases for any reason to be a member thereof.
(4) If a person so elected dies or ceases for any other reason to be chairman or a deputy chairman of the general committee, the committee shall, as soon as practicable, elect another of its members to be the chairman or a deputy chairman thereof, as the case may be, and the person so elected shall, save as provided in subsection (3), hold office until the next election for that position. (Replaced 79 of 1994 s. 20)
(5) The chairman and deputy chairmen of the general committee shall be the chairman and deputy chairmen, respectively, of the Federation.
(6) Commencing with the annual general meeting of the Federation that first occurs after the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (Amendment) Ordinance 1994 (79 of 1994) comes into operation#, the chairman and deputy chairmen of the general committee shall be elected for a 2 years’ term and, thereafter, a reference to the annual general meeting in this section shall be deemed to be a reference to every other annual general meeting. (Added 79 of 1994 s. 20)

(Amended 79 of 1994 s. 20) Editorial Note:
# Operation date: 8 July 1994.

38. Convening of meetings of general committee
(1) Save as provided in subsection (2), the chairman of the general committee shall convene such meetings thereof as he may consider necessary for the efficient discharge of its functions.
(2) The chairman of the general committee shall convene a meeting thereof upon the requisition in writing, addressed to the secretary and specifying the reason for convening the meeting, of not less than 2 of its members.

### Federation of Hong Kong Industries Ordinance 《香港工業總會條例》

39. Procedure at meetings of general committee
(1) The chairman thereof, or, if he is absent, a deputy chairman elected by the members present, shall preside at any meeting of the general committee.
(1A) Where only one deputy chairman is present at the meeting, he shall preside and where none of the deputy chairmen is present, the members present shall elect one of their number to preside. (Added 79 of 1994 s. 21)
(2) (a) No business shall be transacted at any meeting of the general committee unless a quorum of members is present.
(b) The quorum for any such meeting shall be not less than 10 members of the committee present in person. (Amended 81 of 1970 s. 6)
(3) All questions coming before any meeting of the general committee shall be decided by a majority of the members of the committee present in person on a show of hands or on a poll upon demand.
(4) Where the votes on any such question are equally divided, whether on a show of hands or on a poll the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
(5) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the general committee may regulate the conduct of its meetings in such manner as it may think fit.
(Amended 79 of 1994 s. 21)

40. Restrictions on right of members of general committee to be present or to vote
(1) No member of the general committee shall be present in any meeting of the committee when it is considering any matter in which he, or any corporation of which he is a director or manager or any firm of which he is a partner or any association or organization of which he is a member, is the complainant, otherwise than for the purpose of giving evidence of the matter in respect of which the complaint is made.
(2) No member of the general committee shall vote on any resolution concerning any contract with the Federation in which he, or the member whose representative he is, is interested.

41. Transaction of business by circulation of papers
The general committee may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers, and a resolution in writing approved by a majority of the members thereof shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the committee.