Hong Kong Ordinances

DISTRICT COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 52AB

Provisions supplementary to sections 52A and 52B

(1) A charging order may be made either absolutely or subject to conditions as
to notifying the judgment debtor or as to the time when the charge is to
become enforceable, or as to other matters.

(2) The Land Registration Ordinance ( Cap 128) applies to charging  orders as
it applies to other orders or writs issued or made to enforce judgments.

(3) A charge imposed by a charging order has the same effect and is
enforceable in the same courts and in the same manner as an equitable charge
created by the judgment debtor by writing under his hand.

(4) The Court may at any time, on the application of the judgment  debtor or
of any person interested in any property to which the order relates, make an
order discharging or varying the charging order.

(5) The Land Registrar shall, on the filing with him of a memorial and an
office copy of an order under subsection (4) discharging a charging  order
registered under the Land Registration Ordinance ( Cap 128), enter a discharge
of the charging order on the register. The Land Registrar may issue
certificates of the entry. (Added 28 of 2000 s. 26)