Hong Kong Ordinances

EMPLOYEES RETRAINING ORDINANCE - SECT 15

Payment of levy

(1) The amount of levy payable under section 14 shall be paid by an
employer to the Director at such place and within such period ("payment
period") as may be specified by the Director by notice in writing to the
employer.

(2) Any levy, or any part thereof, ("relevant balance") paid by an
employer to the Director in respect of an imported employee ("defaulting
employee") who fails to arrive in Hong Kong after being granted a visa by the
Director under section 14(4), or who having arrived in Hong Kong fails for
whatever reason to complete his contract of employment with his employer,
shall not be repaid or refunded to the employer, but the relevant balance
shall, subject to subsection (3), be taken into account by the Director for
the purposes of any subsequent application that that employer may make to the
Director under section 14(4) to employ an imported employee by way of a
replacement for the defaulting employee.

(3) The relevant balance referred to in subsection (2) shall only be taken
into account by the Director if the subsequent application by the employer to
the Director under section 14(4) is made within a period of 4 months from the
date the failure of the defaulting employee to arrive in Hong Kong, or
complete his contract of employment, as the case may be, first came or should
have first come to the attention of that employer. (Enacted 1992)