Hong Kong Ordinances

HIGH COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 21J

Injunction to restrain persons acting in offices in which they are not entitled to act

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2

(1) Where a person not entitled to do so acts in an office to which this
section applies, the Court of First Instance may- (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)

   (a)  grant an injunction restraining him from so acting; and

   (b)  if the case so requires, declare the office to be vacant.

(2) This section applies to any public office or office which has been created
by any enactment. (Added 52 of 1987 s. 18) [cf. 1981 c. 54 s. 30 U.K.]