### Bills of Exchange Ordinance 《匯票條例》

102. Saving
(1) The rules in bankruptcy relating to bills of exchange, promissory notes, and cheques shall continue to apply thereto, notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance.
(2) The rules of common law, including the law merchant, save in so far as they are inconsistent with the express provisions of this Ordinance, shall continue to apply to bills of exchange, promissory notes, and cheques.
(3) Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect—
(a) the provisions of the Stamp Duty Ordinance (Cap. 117) or any law or enactment relating to the revenue; or (Amended 31 of 1981 s. 65)
(b) the provisions of any Ordinance relating to joint-stock banks or companies; or
(c) the validity of any usage relating to dividend warrants or the indorsements thereof. (Amended 50 of 1911 s. 4)
[cf. 1882 c. 61 s. 97 U.K.] 

### Apportionment Ordinance 《分攤條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Apportionment Ordinance.
(Amended 5 of 1924 s. 6)[cf. 1870 c. 35 s. 1 U.K.]

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
annuities (年金) includes salaries and pensions;
dividends (股息) includes (besides dividends strictly so called) all payments made by the name of dividend, bonus, or otherwise out of the revenue of trading or other public companies, divisible between all or any of the members of such respective companies, whether such payments are usually made or declared at any fixed times or otherwise; and all such divisible revenue shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to have accrued by equal daily increment during and within the period for or in respect of which the payment of the same revenue is declared or expressed to be made, but the said word dividends shall not include payments in the nature of a return or reimbursement of capital;
rents (租金) includes all periodical payments or renderings in lieu of or in the nature of rent.
[cf. 1870 c. 35 s. 5 U.K.]

3. Rents, etc., to accrue from day to day
All rents, annuities, dividends, and other periodical payments in the nature of income (whether reserved or made payable under an instrument in writing or otherwise) shall, like interest on money lent, be considered as accruing from day to day, and shall be apportionable in respect of time accordingly.
(Amended 50 of 1911 s. 4)[cf. 1870 c. 35 s. 2 U.K.]

4. Apportioned part of rent, etc., to be payable when next entire portion due
The apportioned part of any such rent, annuity, dividend, or other payment shall be payable or recoverable, in the case of a continuing rent, annuity, or other such payment, when the entire portion of which such apportioned part forms part becomes due and payable, and not before; and, in the case of a rent, annuity, or other such payment determined by re-entry, death, or otherwise, when the next entire portion of the same would have been payable if the same had not so determined, and not before.
[cf. 1870 c. 35 s. 3 U.K.]

### Apportionment Ordinance 《分攤條例》

5. Remedies for recovering apportioned parts
All persons and their respective executors, administrators, and assigns, and also the executors, administrators, and assigns respectively of persons whose interests determine with their own deaths, shall have such or the same remedies at law and in equity for recovering such apportioned parts as aforesaid when payable (allowing proportionate parts of all just allowances) as they respectively would have had for recovering such entire portions as aforesaid if entitled thereto respectively:
Provided that persons liable to pay rents reserved out of or charged on lands or tenements, and the same lands or tenements, shall not be resorted to for any such apportioned part forming part of an entire or continuing rent as aforesaid specifically, but the entire or continuing rent, including such apportioned part, shall be recovered and received by the person who, if the rent had not been apportionable under this Ordinance or otherwise, would have been entitled to such entire or continuing rent, and such apportioned part shall be recoverable from such person by the executors or other parties entitled under this Ordinance to the same by action or suit.[cf. 1870 c. 35 s. 4 U.K.]

6. Exclusion of policies of assurance
Nothing in this Ordinance shall render apportionable any annual sums made payable in policies of assurance of any description.
[cf. 1870 c. 35 s. 6 U.K.]

7. Exclusion by express stipulation
This Ordinance shall not extend to any case in which it may be expressly stipulated that no apportionment shall take place.
(Amended 50 of 1911; 62 of 1911 Schedule)[cf. 1870 c. 35 s. 7 U.K.]

### Lands Tribunal (Fees) Rules 《土地審裁處(費用)規則》

1. Citation
These rules may be cited as the Lands Tribunal (Fees) Rules.

2. Fees
In proceedings before the Tribunal, the fee specified in, or the fee which may be fixed under, the third column of the Schedule shall be payable in respect of the item specified in the second column of the Schedule.

3. Payment of fees
A fee under these rules shall be payable either by adhesive stamps or by causing the relevant document to be franked with the amount of the fee.

4. Power of registrar
The registrar may reduce, remit or defer payment of any fee under these rules as he may think fit in any particular case and shall, if he exercises this power, endorse on the relevant document a note of the reduction, remission or deferment and of the reasons therefor.

5. Application to the Government
These rules apply to all proceedings by or against the Government.
(25 of 1998 s. 2)

### Lands Tribunal Ordinance 《土地審裁處條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Lands Tribunal Ordinance.

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
President (庭長) means the president of the Lands Tribunal appointed under section 4; (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
presiding officer (法官) means a presiding officer of the Lands Tribunal; (Replaced 5 of 1991 s. 2)
qualified in law (具有法律專業資格) means qualified for appointment as a District Judge under section 5 of the District Court Ordinance (Cap. 336);
registrar (司法常務官) means the Registrar of the District Court; (Added 21 of 1977 s. 2. Amended 49 of 1982 s. 2; 28 of 2000 s. 47)
temporary member (暫委成員) means a temporary member appointed under section 6A; (Added 21 of 1999 s. 4)
Tribunal (審裁處) means the Lands Tribunal established under section 3.

3. Establishment of Lands Tribunal
There shall be a tribunal to be known as the Lands Tribunal which shall be a court of record.
(Amended 49 of 1982 s. 3)