Hong Kong Ordinances

BUILDING MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE - SECT 19

Corporation may sell or register charges against flat in certain circumstances

(1) If a deed of mutual covenant provides that if an owner fails to pay any
sum which is payable under the deed of mutual covenant, a person may sell that
owner's interest in the land or register a charge against such interest in the
Land Registry, then, notwithstanding the provisions of the
deed of mutual covenant, the corporation may, to the exclusion of such person,
exercise such power of sale or register such charge in the same manner and
subject to the same conditions as if it were the person referred to in the
deed of mutual covenant. (Amended 8 of 1993 s. 2; 27 of 1993 s. 18)

(2) The reference in subsection (1) to "fails to pay any sum which is payable
under the deed of mutual covenant" shall be construed to extend to the failure
by an owner to pay the costs incurred by the management  committee in
connection with the exercise by it of the powers conferred by
section 40(1)(a)(ii) or (b). (Added 27 of 1993 s. 18)