Hong Kong Ordinances

EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION ORDINANCE - SECT 21

Jurisdiction of the Court

(1) Save as is provided in this Ordinance and any rules made thereunder, the
District Court shall, upon or in connection with any question to be
investigated or determined thereunder, have all the powers and jurisdictions
exercisable by the District Court in or in connection with civil actions in
such Court in like manner as if the Court had by the District Court Ordinance
( Cap 336) been empowered to determine all claims for compensation under this
Ordinance whatever the amount involved and the law, rules and practice
relating to such civil actions and to the enforcement of judgments and orders
of the Court shall mutatis mutandis apply. (Amended 76 of 1982 s. 18)

(2) The Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action
notwithstanding that the amount claimed exceeds the sum mentioned in
section 33 of the District Court Ordinance ( Cap 336). (Added 55 of 1969 s.
18. Amended 79 of 1981 s. 3)

(3) The Court may, in any proceedings brought in the Court for the recovery of
any compensation, order that there shall be included in the sum for which an
order for payment is made interest at such rate as it thinks fit on the whole
or any part of such sum for the whole or any part of the period between the
date of the accident and the date of the order. (Added 76 of 1982 s. 18)