### Genetically Modified Organisms (Control of Release) Ordinance 《基因改造生物(管制釋出)條例》

54. Notification of or application for approval of released GMOs during transitional period
(1) If a person, during the transitional period, knowingly maintains the life of a released GMO that is in a state of being released into the environment, the person must, before that period expires—
(a) inform the Director of the maintenance by written notice; or
(b) submit a GMO approval application in accordance with section 8 in respect of the released GMO.
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1.
(3) On receiving a notice under subsection (1)(a), the Director may—
(a) direct an authorized officer to enter the place or premises in or on which the released GMO was maintained during reasonable hours to dispose of the GMO; or
(b) direct the person to dispose of the released GMO.
(4) Section 5 does not prohibit a person who has informed the Director of the maintenance of a released GMO under subsection (1)(a) from knowingly maintaining the life of the GMO that is in a state of being released into the environment, during the period from the date of the notice to the date when the GMO is disposed of. 
(5) Section 5 does not prohibit a person who has submitted a GMO approval application under subsection (1)(b) from knowingly maintaining the life of the released GMO that is in a state of being released into the environment, during the period from the date of the application to the date when the decision on the application is entered in the register under section 18.
(6) A notice under subsection (1)(a) must contain the information set out in Schedule 6.

55. (Omitted as spent—E.R. 4 of 2023)

### Public Officers Pay Adjustment Ordinance 《公職人員薪酬調整條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Officers Pay Adjustment Ordinance.

2. Interpretation
(1) In this Ordinance—
allowance (津貼) means any remuneration, other than pay, payable to a public officer;
civil servant (公務員) means a public officer employed by the Government on civil service terms of appointment at a civil service rank;
civil service pay scale (公務員薪級表) means a pay scale specified in Part 1 of the Schedule between the points on that scale specified in that Part (both points inclusive);
Hospital Authority civil servant (醫院管理局公務員) means a civil servant serving in the Hospital Authority whose pay is determined in accordance with a point on a Hospital Authority pay scale;
Hospital Authority pay scale (醫院管理局薪級表) means a pay scale specified in Part 3 of the Schedule between the points on that scale specified in that Part (both points inclusive);
ICAC officer (廉署人員) means a public officer who is an officer within the meaning of the Independent Commission Against Corruption Ordinance (Cap. 204);
ICAC pay scale (廉署人員薪級表) means the pay scale specified in Part 2 of the Schedule between the points on that scale specified in that Part (both points inclusive);
*operative date (實施日期) means the first day of the month immediately following the month during which this Ordinance commences;
pay (薪酬) means any remuneration payable to a public officer as salary, wages, a consultancy fee or an honorarium;
pay scale (薪級表) means a civil service pay scale, a Hospital Authority pay scale or the ICAC pay scale.
(2) If the rules (however expressed) by which adjustments may be made to the pay, or to the amount of an allowance, payable to a public officer refer to civil service pay increases as the factor or one of the factors by which the pay or the amount of the allowance is adjustable, then for the purposes of this Ordinance, the reference to civil service pay increases must be taken for a public officer to whom section 8 applies to be a reference to adjustments made to a civil service pay scale.

Editorial Note:
* Operative date: 1 January 2010.

### Public Officers Pay Adjustment Ordinance 《公職人員薪酬調整條例》

3. Pay point and pay adjustment rules
(1) If the adjustment of a point on a pay scale by this Ordinance results in a dollar value for that point of an amount that is not a multiple of $5, the resulting dollar value must be rounded up to the nearest $5.
(2) If the adjustment (with any required rounding up) of a point on a pay scale by this Ordinance results in a dollar value for that point of an amount that is less than $48,700, the resulting dollar value must be increased to $48,700.
(3) If the adjustment of the pay payable to the Director of Audit under section 7 or to a public officer under section 8 results in a dollar value that is not a multiple of $5, the resulting dollar value must be rounded up to the nearest $5.

4. Non-application to judicial officers
This Ordinance does not apply to the pay or allowances payable to—
(a) a person holding a judicial office specified in Schedule 1 to the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission Ordinance (Cap. 92); or
(b) any other judicial officer appointed by the Chief Executive or by the Chief Justice.

5. Civil servants
(1) On the operative date each civil service pay scale is adjusted by reducing the dollar value of each point on the scale by 5.38%.
(2) The pay payable to a civil servant in accordance with a civil service pay scale as adjusted under subsection (1) is payable with effect from the beginning of the operative date.
(3) On the operative date each Hospital Authority pay scale is, in its application to a Hospital Authority civil servant and not otherwise, adjusted by reducing the dollar value of each point on the scale by 5.38%.
(4) The pay payable to a Hospital Authority civil servant in accordance with a Hospital Authority pay scale as adjusted in its application to him or her under subsection (3) is payable with effect from the beginning of the operative date.

6. ICAC officers paid in accordance with ICAC pay scale
(1) On the operative date the ICAC pay scale is adjusted by reducing the dollar value of each point on the scale by 5.38%.
(2) The pay payable to an ICAC officer in accordance with the ICAC pay scale as adjusted under subsection (1) is payable with effect from the beginning of the operative date.

7. Director of Audit
(1) On the operative date the pay payable to the Director of Audit is adjusted by reducing it by 5.38% and the pay as so adjusted is payable with effect from the beginning of that date.
(2) This section has effect despite anything to the contrary in section 4A of the Audit Ordinance (Cap. 122) or in any order made under that section.