Hong Kong Ordinances

DISTRICT COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 68A

Effect of writs of execution against goods

(1) A writ of fieri facias or other writ of execution against goods issued
from the Court binds the property in the goods of the execution debtor from
the time when the writ to be executed is delivered to the bailiff.

(2) A writ of execution does not prejudice the title to any goods of the
execution debtor acquired by a person in good faith and for valuable
consideration unless the person had, at the time when he acquired his title,
notice that the writ or any other writ under which the goods of the execution
debtor might be seized or attached had been delivered to and remained
unexecuted in the hands of the bailiff.

(3) The bailiff (without fee) on receipt of any writ of execution must endorse
on its back the hour, day, month and year when he received it so that the time
mentioned in subsection (1) can be determined.

(4) In this section and in section 68B-

        (a)	"property" (產權、財產) means the general property in goods, and not 
merely a special property;

        (b)	"bailiff" (執達主任) includes any officer charged with the 
enforcement of a writ of execution;

   (c)  any reference to the goods of the execution debtor is deemed a
        reference to property liable to attachment and sale in execution of a
        judgment;

   (d)  an act is treated as done in good faith if it is in fact done
        honestly, whether it is done negligently or not. (Added 28 of 2000 s.
        37)

"property" (產權、財產)

"bailiff" (執達主任)