Hong Kong Ordinances

MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY ORDINANCE - LONG TITLE

Long title

(Past version on 30/06/2000).

An Ordinance to provide for-

   (a)  the granting of a franchise to the MTR Corporation Limited, a company
        incorporated under the Companies Ordinance ( Cap 32), to operate the
        Mass Transit Railway and to construct and operate any extension to the
        Mass Transit Railway;

   (b)  the regulation of the operation of the Mass Transit Railway under the
        franchise, including all aspects of safety on the Mass Transit 
        Railway;

   (c)  the repeal of the Mass Transit Railway Corporation Ordinance (
        Cap 270), the dissolution of the Mass Transit Railway Corporation
        incorporated under that Ordinance and the vesting of the property,
        rights and liabilities of the Mass Transit Railway Corporation in the
        MTR  Corporation Limited;

   (d)  matters relating to the incorporation of the MTR Corporation  Limited,
        the allotment of shares of the company and the application of various
        enactments in relation to the company;

   (e)  the inclusion in the franchise referred to in paragraph (a) of the
        rights to construct and operate certain railways other than the Mass 
        Transit Railway or its extensions; (Added 11 of 2007 s. 3)

   (f)  the regulation, during the franchise period, of the operation of
        railways and certain bus services in addition to the operation of the
        Mass Transit Railway by the MTR Corporation Limited, including all
        aspects of safety concerning those railways; (Added 11 of 2007 s. 3)

   (g)  the vesting of certain rights and liabilities of the Kowloon-Canton
        Railway Corporation in the MTR Corporation Limited, (Added 11 of 2007
        s. 3) and for connected purposes. (Amended 11 of 2007 s. 3)

[The Ordinance (other than section 13 of Schedule 6)
30 June 2000
L.N. 136 of 2000
} Section 13 of Schedule 6 }
12 January 2001
L.N. 348 of 2000]

(Originally 13 of 2000)