Hong Kong Ordinances

TOYS AND CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS SAFETY ORDINANCE - SECT 34

Service of notices

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) A notice or direction required to be served under this Ordinance shall be
properly served if-

   (a)  in the case of an individual, it is delivered to him or, where it
        cannot conveniently be so delivered, it is-

        (i)    left at the address at which he ordinarily resides or carries
               on business or, if such an address is unknown, at his last
               known address; or

        (ii)   sent by post to him at any such address;

   (b)  in the case of-

        (i)    a company, it is delivered to an officer of the company or,
               where it cannot conveniently be so delivered, it is left at, or
               sent by post to, the company's registered office;

        (ii)   a non-Hong Kong company within the meaning of the Companies 
               Ordinance ( Cap 32), it is left with, or sent by post to, the
               person resident in Hong Kong who is authorized to accept
               service of process and notices on its behalf for the purposes
               of Part XI of that Ordinance; (Amended 30 of 2004 s. 3)

   (c)  in the case of a partnership, it is delivered to any partner or, where
        it cannot conveniently be so delivered, it is left at, or sent by post
        to, the address at which the partnership carries on business;

   (d)  in the case of a body corporate other than a company or an
        unincorporated body of persons other than a partnership, it is
        delivered to an officer of the body or, where it cannot conveniently
        be so delivered, it is left at, or sent by post to, the address at
        which the body carries on business.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), every other body corporate other than
a company and every unincorporated body of persons not being a partnership
shall be deemed to carry on business at its principal office or place of
business.

(3) Where a notice or direction is served-

   (a)  by sending it by post, it shall, in the absence of evidence to the
        contrary, be deemed to have been served on the 7th day after the day
        on which it was sent; or

   (b)  by leaving it at an address referred to in subsection

(1)(a)(i), (b)(i) or (ii), (c) or (d), as the case may be, it shall, in the
absence of evidence to the contrary, be deemed to have been served on the 7th
day after it was so left. (Enacted 1992)