Hong Kong Ordinances

RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES (ELDERLY PERSONS) ORDINANCE - SECT 15

Supplementary provisions relating to appeals

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Amendments retroactively made - see 17 of 1999 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 17 of 1999 s. 3)

(2) If a person appointed by the Chairman under section 14(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 13(4) to act in his place.

(3) The hearing of an appeal may be continued notwithstanding a change in the
membership of the Appeal Board. (Enacted 1994)