Hong Kong Ordinances

INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL CLAUSES ORDINANCE - SECT 59

Contracts by public officer

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Amendments retroactively made - see 26 of 1998 s. 37 In any contract or other
document, signed, executed or made by the Chief  Executive or by any
public officer on behalf of the Chief Executive or the Government or of any
Government department, it shall not be necessary to name the Chief Executive
or such public officer, but it shall be sufficient to name the office held by
the Chief Executive or such public  officer, and the Chief Executive or
public officer shall be deemed to be a party thereto as if the Chief Executive
or such public officer were a corporation sole with perpetual succession for
this purpose. (Amended 26 of 1998 s. 37)