Hong Kong Ordinances

AMUSEMENT GAME CENTRES ORDINANCE - SECT 14

Supplementary provisions relating to appeals

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 59 of 2000 s. 3

(1) If the Chairman is precluded by illness, absence from Hong Kong or any
other cause from exercising his functions, the Chief Executive may appoint any
person qualified for appointment as a District Judge under section 5 of the
District Court Ordinance ( Cap 336) to act as Chairman and as such to exercise
and perform all the functions of the Chairman during the period of his
appointment. (Amended 59 of 2000 s. 3)

(2) If a person appointed by the Chairman under section 13(1) to hear an
appeal is precluded by illness, absence from Hong Kong or any other cause from
exercising his functions, the Chairman may appoint any other person from the
panel referred to in section 12(4) to act in his place.

(3) The hearing of an appeal may be continued notwithstanding any change in
the membership of the Appeal Board and no decision of the Appeal  Board shall
be questioned by virtue of the absence of a member of the Appeal Board during
the hearing of an appeal provided that member does not participate in the
final decision of the Appeal Board. (Enacted 1993)