Hong Kong Ordinances

BUILDING MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE - SECT 34J

Right to establish corporation and conduct business

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) No provision in a deed of mutual covenant or other agreement shall operate
to prevent the owners of any building from being registered as a corporation
under this Ordinance and any such provision shall be void and of no effect.

(2) No provision in a deed of mutual covenant (whether such provision is of a
procedural nature or otherwise) shall operate to prevent
any business relating to the management of a building being conducted at any
meeting by any owner or any person managing the building and any such
provision shall be void and of no effect.

(3) Any provision in a deed of mutual covenant relating to a quorum at any
meeting the attainment of which is in practice impossible or virtually
impossible to achieve and which has the effect of preventing or frustrating
the consideration at that meeting of any business relating to 
the management of a building by any owner or any person managing the building
shall be void and of no effect.

(4) The reference to "any business relating to the management of a building"
in this section shall be construed to include any such business relating to-

   (a)  the appointment of a management committee under section 3, 3A, 4 or
        40C; or (Amended 5 of 2007 s. 21)

   (b)  the termination of a manager's appointment in accordance with Schedule
        7. (Amended 5 of 2007 s. 59) (Added 27 of 1993 s. 29)