Hong Kong Ordinances

BILLS OF SALE ORDINANCE - SECT 4

Application of the Ordinance to trade machinery

(1) Trade machinery shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be
personal chattels, and any mode of disposition of trade  machinery by the
owner thereof which would be a bill of sale as to any other personal chattels
shall be deemed to be a bill of sale within the meaning of this Ordinance.
(Amended 50 of 1911 s.4)

(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, "trade machinery" (營業機器) means
the machinery used in or attached to any factory or workshops-

   (a)  exclusive of the fixed motive-powers, such as the water-wheels and
        steam engines, and the steam-boilers, donkey engines, and other fixed
        appurtenances of the said motive-powers; and

   (b)  exclusive of the fixed power machinery, such as the shafts, wheels,
        drums, and their fixed appurtenances, which transmit the action of the
        motive-powers to the other machinery fixed and loose; and

   (c)  exclusive of the pipes for steam, gas, and water in the factory or
        workshop.

(3) The machinery or effects excluded by this section from the definition of
trade machinery shall not be deemed to be personal chattels within the meaning
of this Ordinance.

(4) For the purposes of this Ordinance, "factory" (工廠) or

"workshop" (工場) means any premises on which any manual labour is exercised
by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or incidental to the following
purposes or any of them-

   (a)  making any article or part of an article; or

   (b)  altering, repairing, or finishing any article; or

   (c)  adapting for sale any article. (Amended 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911
        Schedule; 5 of 1924 Schedule)
(Amended 19 of 1911) [cf. 1878 c. 31 s. 5 U.K.]

"trade machinery" (營業機器)

"factory" (工廠) or "workshop" (工場)