Hong Kong Ordinances

DUMPING AT SEA ORDINANCE - SECT 30

Supplementary provisions as to Appeal Board

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 34 of 2000 s. 3

(1) If the Chairman is unable to exercise his functions the Chief Executive
may appoint another person qualified for appointment as a District Judge under
section 5 of the District Court Ordinance ( Cap 336) to act as Chairman.
(Amended 34 of 2000 s. 3)

(2) An acting Chairman may exercise and perform the powers, functions and
duties of the Chairman during the period of his appointment.

(3) If a member appointed by the Chairman to hear an appeal is unable to
exercise his functions, the Chairman may appoint another person from the panel
to act in his place.

(4) The Chairman or a member may resign his office by notice in writing to the
Chief Executive. (Amended 34 of 2000 s. 3)

(5) An Appeal Board may continue the hearing of an appeal or group of appeals
even though the membership of the Appeal Board has changed as if the change
had not occurred.

(6) The Chairman shall not appoint, without the consent of the parties, a
person as a member of an Appeal Board before which the hearing of an appeal
has commenced. (Enacted 1995)