### Guardianship of Minors Ordinance 《未成年人監護條例》

16. Additional provisions as to interim orders
(1) Notwithstanding section 63 of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336), there shall be no appeal from an interim order under section 13(3) or (4) if the appeal relates only to a provision requiring payments to be made towards the maintenance of a minor. [cf. 1973 c. 29 s. 5(1) U.K.]
(2) Section 10(3) and (4) and section 20 shall apply to any such interim order as they apply to an order under section 10(1) or (2). [cf. 1973 c. 29 s. 5(2) U.K.]

17. Evidence on applications under s. 10 or 14(2)
(1) If the court dealing with an application under section 10 or 14(2) requests the Director of Social Welfare to arrange for an officer of the Social Welfare Department to make to the court a report, orally or in writing, with respect to any specified matter (being a matter appearing to the court to be relevant to the application), the Director of Social Welfare shall comply with such request. (Amended L.N. 80 of 2012) [cf. 1973 c. 29 s. 6(1) U.K.]
(2) Any statement which is or purports to be a report in pursuance of subsection (1) shall be made, or if in writing be read aloud, before the court at a hearing of the application, and immediately after it has been so made or read aloud the court shall ask whether any party to the proceedings who is present or represented by counsel or solicitor at the hearing objects to anything contained therein; and where objection is made—
(a) the court shall require the officer by whom the statement was or purported to be made to give evidence on or with respect to the matters referred to therein; and
(b) any party to the proceedings may give or call evidence with respect to any matter referred to in the statement or in any evidence given by the officer. [cf. 1973 c. 29 s. 6(2) U.K.]
(3) The court may take account of any statement made or read aloud under subsection (2) and of any evidence given under paragraph (a) of that subsection, so far as that statement or evidence relates to the matters specified by the court under subsection (1), notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law relating to the admissibility of evidence. [cf. 1973 c. 29 s. 6(3) U.K.]

### Guardianship of Minors Ordinance 《未成年人監護條例》

18. Powers of guardians
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a guardian under this Ordinance besides being guardian of the person of the minor, shall have all the rights, powers and duties of a guardian of the minor’s estate, including in particular the right to receive and recover in the name of the guardian for the benefit of the minor property of whatever description and wherever situated which the minor is entitled to receive or recover. (Amended L.N. 80 of 2012) [cf. 1973 c. 29 s. 7(1) U.K.]
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall restrict or affect the power of the Court of First Instance to appoint a person to be, or to act as, the guardian of a minor’s estate either generally or for a particular purpose; and subsection (1) shall not apply to a guardian under this Ordinance so long as there is a guardian of the minor’s estate alone. (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2) [cf. 1973 c. 29 s. 7(2) U.K.]

19. Person subject to maintenance order to notify change of address
(1) Any person for the time being under an obligation to make payment in pursuance of any order for the payment of money under this Ordinance shall within 14 days of a change of address give notice of his or her new address to such person, if any, as may be specified in the order by sending the notice by registered post to the last known address of that person or to such address as may be notified to him or her by that person for the purposes of this section. (Amended 65 of 1986 s. 9; 69 of 1997 s. 5; L.N. 80 of 2012)
(2) A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 2. (Replaced 69 of 1997 s. 5)
[cf. 1971 c. 3 s. 13(2) U.K.]

### Guardianship of Minors Ordinance 《未成年人監護條例》

23. Procedure in District Court
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Ordinance, Part 4 of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336) shall apply to every proceeding before, and every order by, the District Court under this Ordinance, and— (Amended 69 of 1997 s. 7)
(a) the application may be heard and determined otherwise than in open court;
(b) where the District Court considers that the matter is one which could more conveniently be dealt with by the Court of First Instance, the District Court may refuse to make an order and in that case, without prejudice to the general right of appeal conferred by Part 4 of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336), no appeal shall lie from the decision of the District Court; (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
(c) an order for the payment of money shall be enforceable in like manner as an order for the payment of a civil debt.
(Amended E.R. 1 of 2013)

24. Removal to Court of First Instance
Where any application has been made under this Ordinance to the District Court, the Court of First Instance shall, at the instance of any party to the application, order the application to be removed to the Court of First Instance and there proceeded with on such terms as to costs as it thinks proper.
(Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)[cf. 1971 c. 3 s. 16(1) U.K.]

### Guardianship of Minors Ordinance 《未成年人監護條例》

25. Saving for powers of Court of First Instance
Nothing in this Ordinance shall restrict or affect the jurisdiction of the Court of First Instance to appoint or remove guardians or otherwise in respect of minors.
(Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)[cf. 1971 c. 3 s. 17(1) U.K.]

26. Jurisdiction over persons not domiciled in Hong Kong
The jurisdiction conferred on any court by this Ordinance shall be exercisable notwithstanding that any party to the proceedings is not domiciled in Hong Kong.
[cf. 1971 c. 3 s. 17(2) U.K.]

27. Transitional
The amendments made to section 19 of this Ordinance by section 5 of the Marriage and Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 1997 (69 of 1997) (the amending Ordinance