### Fire Safety (Commercial Premises) Ordinance 《消防安全(商業處所)條例》

21. Offence to disclose information obtained officially
(1) A person who, without lawful authority, discloses to another person information obtained while exercising or performing a function conferred or imposed on the person by this Ordinance is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) A person has lawful authority to disclose information if the person discloses the information—
(a) in order to exercise or perform a function under this Ordinance; or
(b) in connection with proceedings brought under this Ordinance; or
(ba) in relation to performing a function, or for enabling or facilitating any thing or work to be done by any person, under any law of Hong Kong; or (Replaced 7 of 2020 s. 58)
(c) in compliance with a court order; or (Replaced 7 of 2020 s. 58)
(d) with the consent of all persons who are entitled to have the information kept confidential.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), information that a person is entitled to have kept confidential includes, but is not limited to, information that concerns the trade, business or profession of the person or another person with whom the person has business dealings.

22. How documents are to be served for purposes of this Ordinance
A document to be given or served under this Ordinance may be given or served—
(a) in the case of a person who is not a body corporate—
(i) by delivering it to the person personally; or
(ii) by sending it by registered post in a letter addressed to the person at the person’s usual place of residence or business or, if the person’s address is unknown, addressed to the person’s last known place of residence or business; or
(b) in the case of a person that is a body corporate—
(i) by delivering it to any place in Hong Kong at which the body carries on business and giving it to a person apparently concerned in the management of, or apparently employed by, the body; or
(ii) by sending it to the body by registered post in a letter addressed to the body at its registered office in Hong Kong or at any place in Hong Kong at which the body carries on business.

23. Chief Executive in Council may make regulations
The Chief Executive in Council may make regulations— (Amended 71 of 1999 s. 3)
(a) prescribing anything required or permitted to be prescribed by regulations under this Ordinance; and
(b) generally providing for the better carrying into effect of the provisions and purposes of this Ordinance.

### Fire Safety (Commercial Premises) Ordinance 《消防安全(商業處所)條例》

24. Secretary for Security may amend Schedule 1
(1) The Secretary for Security may, by order published in the Gazette, amend Schedule 1 by adding, substituting or omitting matter, but only if the amendment promotes the purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) In determining whether or not a commercial activity should be added to Schedule 1, the Secretary for Security must have regard to the fire risks that could arise in carrying on the activity on premises and the consequences that could result should a fire occur on premises while the activity is being carried on there.

24A. Amendment of Schedule 4
The Secretary for Security may by order published in the Gazette amend Schedule 4.
(Added 15 of 1998 s. 18)

25. Effect of substituted or amended codes of practice
(1) If a code of practice specified in a Schedule to this Ordinance is substituted or amended, the substituted code or the code as amended applies for the purposes of this Ordinance only when—
(a) the Legislative Council has passed a resolution declaring that the substituted code or the code as amended is to apply for those purposes; and
(b) the reference to the code in the Schedule is amended in accordance with subsection (2); and
(c) that amendment has taken effect.
(2) If the Legislative Council has passed a resolution declaring that a substituted or amended code of practice is to apply for the purposes of this Ordinance, the Secretary for Security may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the relevant Schedule by substituting the reference to the substituted or amended code for the reference to the code then specified in that Schedule.
(3) Such an amendment takes effect on the date on which the order is published in the Gazette or on such later date as may be specified in the order.

### Enduring Powers of Attorney Ordinance 《持久授權書條例》

1. Short title
(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Enduring Powers of Attorney Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2012)

2. Interpretation
(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
attorney (受權人), in relation to an enduring power, means the person appointed as attorney under the power;
court (法院) means the Court of First Instance; (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
donor (授權人), in relation to an enduring power, means the person giving the power;
enduring power (持久授權) means an enduring power of attorney;
enduring power of attorney (持久授權書) means a power of attorney which is an enduring power of attorney within the meaning of section 3;
mentally incapable (精神上無能力行事) and mental incapacity (精神上無行為能力) mean being mentally incapable and suffering from mental incapacity within the meaning of section 1A of the Powers of Attorney Ordinance (Cap. 31) and mentally capable (精神上有能力行事) and mental capacity (精神上行為能力) must be construed accordingly;
prescribed (訂明) means prescribed by regulations made under section 18;
prescribed explanatory information (訂明說明資料) means the information prescribed under section 18 (which is described in subsection (2) of that section);
registered (註冊) means registered under section 9;
trust corporation (信託法團) has the meaning assigned to it by the Trustee Ordinance (Cap. 29).
(2) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that for the purposes of this Ordinance the references to “power of attorney” and “effect of the power of attorney” in section 1A of the Powers of Attorney Ordinance (Cap. 31) are to be construed as references respectively to “enduring power” and “effect of the enduring power and the prescribed explanatory information in the enduring power”.