Hong Kong Ordinances

MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY ORDINANCE - SECT 17

Defaults capable of remedy

(Past version on 30/06/2000).

(1) Where it appears to the Secretary that the Corporation is in default, and
that the default is one which is capable of being remedied, the Secretary may
serve on the Corporation a notice calling upon the Corporation-

   (a)  to remedy the default or to take measures or make arrangements to the
        satisfaction of the Secretary to ensure that the default is remedied;
        and

   (b)  to do so within the period specified in the notice, being a period
        that is reasonable in the circumstances, or within a further period as
        the Secretary may allow.

(2) Unless the circumstances require otherwise, the period specified in a
notice served under subsection (1) shall be a period of 28 days or more.

(3) A default committed by reason of section 16(1)(c) shall not be regarded as
one which is capable of being remedied for the purposes of subsection (1), and
no notice shall be served under that subsection in respect of such a default.
(Added 11 of 2007 s. 13)