### Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance 《市區重建局條例》

17. Authority to appoint auditor
(1) The Authority shall appoint an auditor to audit the accounts of the Authority.
(2) As soon as practicable after a vacancy occurs in the office of auditor, the Authority shall appoint another auditor to fill the vacancy.

18. Authority’s financial statements to be audited
(1) Not later than 3 months after the end of each financial year, the Authority shall submit the financial statements prepared for that year to the Authority’s auditor for auditing.
(2) As soon as practicable after receiving the financial statements submitted by the Authority, the Authority’s auditor shall audit those statements and prepare an auditor’s report on audit of those statements.
(3) The auditor’s report shall state whether or not the financial statements are, in the opinion of the Authority’s auditor, properly drawn up so as to give a true and fair view of the matters referred to in section 16(2) and in compliance with the accounting standards, if any, notified under section 16(3) and, if not, the reasons for that opinion.
(4) The Authority’s auditor is entitled—
(a) to have access at all reasonable times to the Authority’s accounting records; and
(b) to require the Managing Director, the executive directors and any member of the staff of the Authority to provide the auditor with such explanations and information as the auditor considers necessary for the purpose of conducting the audit.
(5) As soon as practicable after completing the audit and preparing the auditor’s report, the Authority’s auditor shall—
(a) attach the report to, or endorse the report on, the financial statements that were audited; and
(b) deliver those statements and the report to the Authority.
(6) The Authority shall, as soon as practicable and in any case not later than 6 months after the end of each financial year, furnish—
(a) a report of the affairs of the Authority for that year;
(b) a copy of the audited financial statements thereof; and
(c) the auditor’s report on audit of those statements,
to the Financial Secretary who shall cause the same to be tabled in the Legislative Council.

19. Exemption from taxation
The Authority shall be exempt from taxation under the Inland Revenue Ordinance (Cap. 112).

### Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance 《市區重建局條例》

20. Urban renewal strategy
(1) The Secretary may prepare from time to time an urban renewal strategy for the purposes of this Part relating to the carrying out of urban renewal.
(2) The Secretary shall consult the public before finalizing the urban renewal strategy prepared under subsection (1) in such manner as he may determine. The Secretary need not consult the public before revising or amending the urban renewal strategy prepared under that subsection if he considers that such revision or amendment is of a minor, technical or insignificant nature.
(3) In the course of consultation under subsection (2), the Secretary need not disclose information which, in his opinion, would not be in the public interest to disclose.

### Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance 《市區重建局條例》

21. Corporate plan
(1) The Authority shall not later than 3 months before the end of each financial year submit to the Financial Secretary for approval a draft corporate plan for a period of 5 years beginning on the first day of the next financial year covering in relation to that period—
(a) its programme of proposals to be implemented including commencement dates of implementation, and for each proposal, whether it is to be implemented by way of a development scheme under section 25 or by way of a development project under section 26;
(b) its programme of implementation for development proposals and development schemes of the description mentioned in section 6(2)(d)(iii) and (iv), including commencement dates and for each project, whether it is to be implemented by way of a development scheme under section 13(1) of the repealed Ordinance or by way of a development proposal under section 5(2)(b) of the repealed Ordinance;
(c) its financial plan to achieve the programme mentioned in paragraph (a), including—
(i) the projected income and expenditure for—
(A) the projects that have already commenced;
(B) the proposals to be commenced during that period;
(C) the development proposals and development schemes of the description mentioned in section 6(2)(d)(iii) and (iv) that have already commenced;
(D) the development proposals and development schemes of the description mentioned in section 6(2)(d)(iii) and (iv) to be commenced during that period;
(ii) the amount of any money required to be borrowed from the Government or from sources other than the Government for financing the implementation of the proposals and projects that have already commenced or are to be commenced before the end of the financial year and the repayment schedule for any such loan; and
(iii) the staffing requirements of the Authority to implement such programme.
(2) The Authority shall submit its first draft corporate plan to the Financial Secretary for approval as soon as is practicable after the Authority is established.
(3) The Authority, when preparing its programme of proposals and its programme of implementation for projects—
(a) shall follow any guidelines set out in an urban renewal strategy prepared under section 20(1) in relation to the implementation of those proposals and projects;
(b) shall, as far as is practicable, include proposals of projects of the description mentioned in section 6(2)(d) to the extent as may be set out in such an urban renewal strategy;
(c) may suggest, for the approval of the Financial Secretary, for inclusion in its corporate plan any other proposal or the implementation of any other project as it thinks fit.
(4) Upon submission of a draft corporate plan the Financial Secretary may—
(a) approve it; or
(b) refuse to approve it.

### Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance 《市區重建局條例》

23. Publication of project
(1) For the purpose of the implementation of a project, the Authority shall publish in each issue of the Gazette within the space of a period of 2 months (the publication period

### Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance 《市區重建局條例》

27. Appeal Board
(1) The Chief Executive may appoint a panel of persons (the Appeal Board panel

### Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance 《市區重建局條例》

33. Chief Executive may give directions
The Chief Executive may, if he considers the public interest so requires, give directions in writing to the Authority in relation to the exercise of its powers or the performance of its duties and the Authority shall comply with those directions.

34. Authority may make bylaws
(1) The Authority may make bylaws regulating the conduct of persons within any—
(a) land, building, premises or structure which it has leased, purchased, acquired or otherwise owns or holds and any common parts thereof;
(b) roads, footways, parks, car parks, parking spaces, recreational facilities and similar open spaces, bridges, drains, sewers and water courses and other transport and recreational facilities owned or held by the Authority.
(2) The following provisions shall apply in relation to bylaws made by the Authority under subsection (1)—
(a) any bylaw so made may provide that a contravention of specified provisions thereof shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor not exceeding a fine at level 3;
(b) without prejudice to any Ordinance relating to the prosecution of criminal offences or to the powers of the Secretary for Justice in relation to the prosecution of criminal offences, prosecutions under any bylaw so made may be brought in the name of the Authority;
(c) all bylaws so made shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council;
(d) the Authority shall cause to be printed copies of all bylaws so made which shall be kept at its principal office and be available for sale to any person at a reasonable cost.

35. Service of notices
A notice to be served under this Ordinance may be served by serving a copy—
(a) personally;
(b) by registered post addressed to the last known place of business or residence of the person to be served;
(c) where the notice relates to any premises or part thereof, by leaving the same with an adult occupier of the premises or part thereof to which the notice relates or by posting the same in a prominent position upon or near such premises or upon a conspicuous part of such premises or part thereof; or
(d) where the notice relates to land, by posting the same in a prominent position upon or near such land.

### Broadcasting Ordinance 《廣播條例》

1. Short title
(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Broadcasting Ordinance.
(2)-(3) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2012)