### District Court Ordinance 《區域法院條例》

72C. Rules as to stop orders and notices
(1) In this section—
prescribed securities (訂明的保證物) means securities (including funds in court) of a kind prescribed by rules of court made under this section;
stop notice (停止通知書) means a notice requiring any person on whom it is served to refrain from taking any of the steps mentioned in subsection (4) in respect of any of the securities specified in the notice, without first notifying the person by whom, or on whose behalf, the notice was served;
stop order (停止令) means an order of the Court prohibiting the taking of any of the steps mentioned in subsection (4) in respect of any of the securities specified in the order.
(2) The Rules Committee may make rules of court for—
(a) the Court to make a stop order on the application of a person claiming to be entitled to an interest in prescribed securities; and
(b) the service of a stop notice by a person claiming to be entitled to an interest in prescribed securities.
(3) Rules of court made under this section are to prescribe the person on whom a copy of a stop order or stop notice is to be served.
(4) The steps mentioned in subsection (1) are—
(a) the registration of a transfer of the securities;
(b) for funds in court, the transfer, delivery out, payment or other dealings with the funds, or of the income on the funds;
(c) the payment of a dividend, interest or otherwise for the securities; and
(d) for a unit trust, an acquisition of or other dealings with the units by a person or body exercising functions under the trust.
(5) Rules made under this section may include incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions that the Rules Committee considers expedient, and may make different provision for different cases or classes of cases.
(Added 28 of 2000 s. 41)

72CA. Rules as to costs and interest
(1) Notwithstanding sections 50 and 53, the Rules Committee may make rules of court for enabling the Registrar, in such circumstances as may be specified in the rules, to—
(a) disallow all or part of any costs to be taxed pursuant to a costs order made by the Court;
(b) disallow all or part of any interest otherwise payable under section 50 on taxed costs, or reduce the period for which such interest is payable or the rate prescribed in section 50 at which such interest is payable; and
(c) increase the rate prescribed in section 50 at which interest on taxed costs or costs of taxation is payable.
(2) Rules made under this section may include incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions that the Rules Committee considers expedient.
(3) In this section, Registrar (司法常務官) includes a Master.
(Added 3 of 2008 s. 34)

### District Court Ordinance 《區域法院條例》

72D. Orders for interim payment
(1) The Rules Committee may make rules of court for the circumstances in which the Court may order a party to pending proceedings to make an interim payment of the amount specified in the order, either by payment into court or (if the order provides) by paying it to another party to the proceedings.
(2) The rules made under subsection (1) may enable a party to proceedings who has made an interim payment under an order to recover the whole or part of the amount of the payment in the circumstances, and from the party to the proceedings, determined under the rules.
(3) Rules made under this section may include incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions that the Rules Committee considers expedient.
(4) This section does not affect the exercise of any power relating to costs, including any power to make rules of court relating to costs.
(5) In this section, interim payment (中期付款) means a payment on account of any damages, debt or other sum (excluding any costs) which a party may be held liable to pay to or for the benefit of another party to the proceedings if a final judgment or order of the Court in the proceedings is given or made in favour of that other party.
(6) This section binds the Government so far as any proceedings to which this section is applicable can be brought by or against the Government in accordance with the Crown Proceedings Ordinance (Cap. 300).
(Added 28 of 2000 s. 41)

72E. Orders for provisional damages for personal injuries
(1) This section applies to proceedings in an action in which a claim for personal injuries is made in which there is proved or admitted to be a chance that in the future the injured person will develop some serious disease or suffer some serious deterioration in his physical or mental condition as a result of the act or omission which gave rise to the cause of action.
(2) The Rules Committee may make rules enabling the Court in giving judgment in a case to which this section applies to award the injured person—
(a) damages assessed on the assumption that the injured person will not develop the disease or suffer the deterioration in his condition; and
(b) further damages at a future date if he develops the disease or suffers the deterioration.
(3) Rules made under this section may include incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions that the Rules Committee considers expedient, and may provide for the injured person to elect whether or not to accept an award of damages assessed under the rules.
(4) This section does not—
(a) affect the exercise of any power relating to costs, including any power to make rules of court relating to costs; or
(b) prejudice any duty of the Court under any enactment or rule of law to reduce or limit the total damages which would have been recoverable apart from the duty.
(Added 28 of 2000 s. 41)

### District Court Ordinance 《區域法院條例》

73. Suitors’ Funds Rules
(1) The Chief Judge may make rules for regulating— (Amended 10 of 2005 s. 18)
(a) the deposit, payment, delivery, and transfer in, into, and out of the Court of money, securities, and movable property of suitors;
(b) the evidence of such deposit, payment, delivery, or transfer, and the investment of and other dealings with money, securities, and movable property in court;
(c) the execution of the orders of the Court; and
(d) the powers and duties of the Registrar with reference to such money, securities, and movable property.
(2) Without prejudice to the general nature of subsection (1), rules made under this section may provide for—
(a) regulating the placing on and withdrawal from deposit of money in court, and the payment or crediting of interest on money placed on deposit;
(b) determining the smallest amount of money on deposit on which interest is to be credited to an account to which money placed on deposit belongs;
(c) determining the time at which money placed on deposit is to begin and to cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such interest;
(d) determining the cases in which money placed on deposit is to begin and to cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such interest;
(e) determining the cases in which interest on money placed on deposit and the dividends on any securities standing in the name of the Registrar is or are to be placed on deposit; and
(f) disposing of money remaining unclaimed in court. (Amended 20 of 2014 s. 27)
(3) In this section—
securities (證券) includes shares. (Added 20 of 2014 s. 27)
(Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 41)

73A. Amendments of limits of jurisdiction and other amounts
The amounts mentioned in sections 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 49, 52, 53A(5), 68B and 69B may be amended by resolution of the Legislative Council.
(Replaced 28 of 2000 s. 42. Amended 17 of 2018 s. 30)

### District Court Ordinance 《區域法院條例》

78. Limitation on prosecutions
Where by any enactment there is imposed a limit of time within which a prosecution for any offence may be commenced, such limit shall apply in the case of a prosecution for such offence in the Court.
(1 of 1953 s. 28 incorporated. Amended 21 of 1962 s. 13; 16 of 1970 Schedule)