Hong Kong Ordinances

PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 60A

Interpretation of Part VA

PART VA

BANK ACCOUNTS AND BANK DEPOSIT BOXES KEPT BY DECEASED

In this Part— “authorization for removal” (取去物品授權書) means
an Authorization for Removal from Bank Deposit Box issued under section 60E(1)
or (2); “bank” (銀行) has the same meaning as in the Banking Ordinance (
Cap 155); “certificate for inspection” (檢視證明書) means a
Certificate for Necessity of Inspection of Bank Deposit Box issued under
section 60C(1); “certificate for release of money” (支用款項證明書)
means a Certificate for Necessity of Release of Money issued under
section 60B(1); “jointly rented safe deposit box” (聯名租用保管箱)
means a safe deposit box jointly kept at a bank in the names of 2 or more
persons; “jointly rented safe deposit box with survivorship arrangement”
(有尚存安排聯名租用保 管箱) means a jointly rented safe deposit
box kept pursuant to an agreement under the terms of which the access to the
contents of the box of any of the renters of the box is not affected by the
death of any other renter of the box; “solely rented safe deposit box”
(單人租用保管箱) means a safe deposit box kept at a bank in the sole
name of a person; “surviving renter” (尚存租用人), in relation to a
jointly rented safe deposit box, means, where any renter in whose name the box
is kept dies, any surviving renter in whose name the box is kept. (Part VA
added 21 of 2005 s. 23) “authorization for removal”
(取去物品授權書) “bank” (銀行) “certificate for inspection”
(檢視證明書) “certificate for release of money”
(支用款項證明書) “jointly rented safe deposit box”
(聯名租用保管箱) “jointly rented safe deposit box with survivorship
arrangement” (有尚存安排聯名租用保 管箱) “solely rented safe
deposit box” (單人租用保管箱) “surviving renter”
(尚存租用人)