Hong Kong Ordinances

HIGH COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 44

Powers of Court of First Instance exercisable before commencement of action

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

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

(1) On the application of any person in accordance with rules of court, the
Court of First Instance shall, in such circumstances as may be specified in
the rules, have power to make an order providing for any one or more of the
following matters- (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)

   (a)  the inspection, photographing, preservation, custody and detention of
        property which appears to the Court to be property which may become
        the subject matter of subsequent proceedings in the Court, or as to
        which any question may arise in any such proceedings; and

   (b)  the taking of samples of any such property as is mentioned in
        paragraph (a) and the carrying out of any experiment on or with any
        such property.

(2) The power to make rules of court shall include power to make rules of
court as to the manner in which an application for such an order can be made,
and as to the circumstances in which such an order can be made; and any such
rules may include such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions
as the Rules Committee may consider necessary or expedient.

(3) In this section-

"property" (財產) includes any land, chattel or other corporeal property of
any description. [cf. 1969 c. 58 s. 21 U.K.]

"property" (財產)