### Housing Managers Registration Ordinance 《房屋經理註冊條例》

30. Offences and penalties
Any person who—
(a) having been summoned by an inquiry committee to attend as a witness or to produce a document or other thing under section 24 without reasonable excuse refuses or fails to do so;
(b) attends as a witness before an inquiry committee and, without lawful excuse, refuses or fails to answer any question put to him by the inquiry committee;
(c) fraudulently obtains registration as a registered professional housing manager for himself or any other person;
(d) obtains registration as a registered professional housing manager for himself or any other person by means of any misleading, false or fraudulent representation or statement, either orally or in writing;
(e) makes or causes to be made any falsification in the register;
(f) impersonates or falsely represents himself as being the person referred to in any certificate or document presented to the Board or an inquiry committee in connection with its functions under this Ordinance;
(g) falsely takes or uses any name, initials, title, addition or description implying that his name is entered in the register;
(h) not being a registered professional housing manager, uses or knowingly permits the use of in connection with his business or profession—
(i) the description “registered professional housing manager” or “註冊專業房屋經理”;
(ii) the initials “R.P.H.M.”; or
(iii) initials or abbreviations or words intended to cause, or which may reasonably cause, any person to believe that the person using them is on the register;
(i) not being on the register, advertises or represents himself as a registered professional housing manager or knowingly permits himself to be so advertised or represented;
(j) holds himself out to be ordinarily resident in Hong Kong at the time of making an application for registration when he is not so ordinarily resident,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 1 year.

31. Certificate as evidence
A certificate, purporting to be signed by the Registrar, that the name of a person has or has not been entered in or has been removed or ordered to be removed from the register shall for all purposes, without further proof, be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

### Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance 《商船(本地船隻)條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 3 of 2021)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 3 of 2021)

### Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance 《商船(本地船隻)條例》

3. Application
(1) Subject to subsections (2), (3) and (4), this Ordinance shall, except where otherwise specially provided, apply to all local vessels whether in or beyond the waters of Hong Kong.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), this Ordinance shall, except where otherwise specially provided, apply to a local vessel referred to in paragraph (e) of the definition of local vessel

### Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance 《商船(本地船隻)條例》

5. Functions of Committee
(1) Without prejudice to any other provisions of this Ordinance, the Director may seek the advice of the Committee on any matter which is connected with or incidental to—
(a) the performance of his functions, or the exercise of his powers, under this Ordinance; or
(b) the general regulation or control of local vessels in Hong Kong.
(2) The Committee shall advise the Director on any matter in respect of which its advice is sought under subsection (1).

6. Subcommittees
(1) The Committee may establish subcommittees and appoint the members thereof, which may include persons who are not members of the Committee, and the Committee shall appoint a chairman for each subcommittee.
(2) Any matter may be referred by the Chairman of the Committee to a subcommittee.
(3) The Chairman of the Committee shall have the right to attend at any meeting of any subcommittee, whether or not he was appointed as a member of that subcommittee.
(4) The Chairman of the Committee or the chairman of a subcommittee may convene a meeting of the subcommittee.
(5) Not less than 1/4 of the members of a subcommittee shall form a quorum at any meeting of the subcommittee but, in any case, a quorum of the subcommittee shall not be less than 2 members.
(6) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a subcommittee may co-opt additional persons as members of the subcommittee, and shall at all times furnish the Chairman of the Committee with particulars of all persons co-opted.
(7) Upon the conclusion of its deliberations a subcommittee shall prepare a report covering all aspects of its work for the consideration of the Committee, which report shall be forwarded to the Chairman and the secretary of the Committee for inclusion on the agenda of the next meeting of the Committee.
(8) Part VII of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1) shall apply to a subcommittee and appointments to the subcommittee—
(a) as if the subcommittee were a committee;
(b) except in so far as that Part is inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance.

### Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance 《商船(本地船隻)條例》

7. Authorization of surveyors
(1) The Director may authorize in writing a person, or a person belonging to a class of persons, who is not a public officer to be a surveyor for the purposes of this Ordinance subject to such conditions, if any, as the Director thinks fit and specified in the authorization.
(1A) In considering the conditions (if any) to be imposed under subsection (1), the Director shall have regard to all relevant considerations, including but not limited to the experience and the competency of the person in carrying out the work of a surveyor for the purposes of this Ordinance. (Added 24 of 2005 s. 4)
(2) Where the Director refuses to authorize a person as a surveyor for the purposes of this Ordinance, or authorizes a person as a surveyor for the purposes of this Ordinance subject to conditions, he shall serve a notice in writing on the person setting out the reasons for the refusal or conditions, as the case may be.
(3) Where the Director is satisfied that an authorized surveyor has contravened any of the conditions of his authorization, he may serve a notice in writing on the surveyor revoking the authorization and setting out the reasons for the revocation.
(4) The Director may carry out an audit check of any survey carried out or any plan approved by an authorized surveyor for the purposes of this Ordinance. (Replaced 24 of 2005 s. 4)
(5) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the Director may authorize a person as a surveyor for the purposes of this Ordinance subject to the condition that he is such a surveyor only in relation to a local vessel of which he is the owner.
(6) (Repealed 24 of 2005 s. 4)

7A. Recognition of government authority
(1) The Director may recognize in writing any government authority for the purposes of carrying out any survey and approving any plan of any local vessel for the purposes of this Ordinance subject to such conditions, if any, as the Director thinks fit.
(2) In considering the conditions (if any) to be imposed under subsection (1), the Director shall have regard to all relevant considerations, including but not limited to the experience and the competency of the government authority in carrying out the surveys and approving the plans of the local vessel.
(3) Where the Director is satisfied that a recognized government authority has contravened any of the conditions imposed under subsection (1), he may serve a notice in writing on the authority withdrawing the recognition and setting out the reasons for such withdrawal.
(4) The Director may carry out an audit check of any survey carried out or any plan approved by a recognized government authority for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(Added 24 of 2005 s. 5)