Hong Kong Ordinances

MANDATORY PROVIDENT FUND SCHEMES ORDINANCE - SECT 19C

Authority may require information or documents necessary for paying special contributions

(1) The Authority may, for the purpose of paying special contributions, by a
notice in writing—

   (a)  require an approved trustee of a registered scheme to give to the
        Authority any information or document specified in the notice relating
        to the members of the scheme;

   (b)  require a trustee of a relevant scheme to give to the Authority any
        information or document specified in the notice relating to the
        members of the scheme;

   (c)  require an employer of a member of a registered scheme or relevant
        scheme to give to the Authority any information or document specified
        in the notice relating to the member; and

   (d)  require any other person whom the Authority reasonably believes to
        have in his possession, or under his control, any information or
        document relating to a member of a registered scheme or relevant
        scheme to give to the Authority any information or document specified
        in the notice relating to the member.

(2) Only information or documents that the Authority reasonably considers to
be necessary for the purpose of paying special contributions may be specified
in the notice and they may include (but are not limited to) the following
particulars of a member of a registered scheme or relevant scheme—

   (a)  the member’s name;

   (b)  the member’s date of birth;

   (c)  the member’s Hong Kong Identity Card number or travel document
        number;

   (d)  the member’s income; and

   (e)  the member’s correspondence address, telephone number and electronic
        mail address.

(3) The Authority may specify in the notice—

   (a)  a manner in which the specified information or document must be given
        to the Authority; and

   (b)  a period that is reasonable in the circumstances within which the
        specified information or document must be given to the Authority.

(4) Where—

   (a)  a person is given a notice in writing under subsection (1); and

   (b)  the information or document specified in the notice is in the
        possession, or under the control, of that person, that person must
        give the specified information or document to the Authority in the
        specified manner within the specified period.

(5) In this section— “member” (成員), in relation to a
registered scheme or relevant scheme, includes a former member of the scheme;
“relevant scheme” (有關計劃) has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to
the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes (Exemption) Regulation ( Cap 485 sub.
leg. B). (Part IIIA added 30 of 2008 s. 4) “member” (成員) “relevant
scheme” (有關計劃)