Hong Kong Ordinances

SECURITY AND GUARDING SERVICES ORDINANCE - SECT 35

Savings and transitionals

(1) Where a licence issued before the commencement of section 2(b) of the
Security and Guarding Services (Amendment) Ordinance 2000 (25 of
2000) (in this section referred to as "the 2000 Amending Ordinance") makes
reference to any activity which-

   (a)  is security work for the purposes of this Ordinance immediately before
        that commencement; but

   (b)  is not security work for the purposes of this Ordinance as amended by
        that section, the licence shall, in respect of the remainder of its
        term after that commencement, be treated as a licence that does not
        contain that reference.

(2) Where, immediately before the commencement of sections 12 and 15 of
the 2000 Amending Ordinance, a licence fee is payable in respect of any
licence under this Ordinance as it then applied (whether or not allowed to be
paid by instalments under section 4 of the Security and 
Guarding Services (Fees) Regulation ( Cap 460 sub. leg.)), then-

   (a)  the licence fee remains payable under this Ordinance as it then
        applied as if sections 12 and 15 of the 2000 Amending Ordinance had
        not been enacted;

   (b)  during the remainder of the term for which the licence was issued,
        section 21A of this Ordinance does not apply in relation to the
        licence.

(3) Where immediately before the commencement of section 13(d) and

   (e)  of the 2000 Amending Ordinance-

   (a)  an application made under section 19 or 23 of this Ordinance is
        pending; and

   (b)  the Secretary has given notice of the date fixed for the hearing of
        the application (whether or not the hearing has commenced), the
        application shall be determined in accordance with this Ordinance as
        if section 13(d) and (e) of the 2000 Amending Ordinance had not been
        enacted.

(4) Where, immediately before the commencement date for sections 17 and 18 of
the 2000 Amending Ordinance, an application made under section  24 of this
Ordinance is pending, the application shall be determined in accordance with
this Ordinance as if sections 17 and 18 of the 2000  Amending Ordinance had
not been enacted.

(5) Except as provided in this section, any amendment made by a provision of
the 2000 Amending Ordinance applies to and in relation to an application made
or a licence issued under this Ordinance before the commencement of that
provision as it applies to and in relation to an application made or a licence
issued on or after that commencement. (Added 25 of 2000 s. 24)