Hong Kong Ordinances

MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY ORDINANCE - SECT 40

Miscellaneous supplementary provisions

(1) The Corporation and all other persons have the same rights, powers and
remedies for ascertaining, perfecting or enforcing any right or liability
vested in the Corporation by virtue of this Part as they would have had if
that right or liability had at all times been a right or liability of the
Corporation; and in this subsection reference to rights and powers includes in
particular a reference to rights and powers as to the taking or resisting of
legal proceedings or the making or resisting of applications to any authority.

(2) Any legal proceedings or applications to any authority pending or
commenced by or against MTRC shall be continued by or against the Corporation
to the exclusion of MTRC.

(3) Any judgment or award obtained by or against MTRC and not fully satisfied
before the appointed day is enforceable by or against the Corporation to the
extent that it was enforceable by or against MTRC immediately before that
date.

(4) The functions of MTRC under any Ordinance as in force immediately before
the appointed day which-

   (a)  relates to any part of the business of MTRC; or

   (b)  authorizes the carrying out of works designed to be used in connection
        with any part of the business of MTRC or the acquisition of land for
        the purpose of carrying out any such works, become the functions of
        the Corporation for the purposes of that Ordinance.