Hong Kong Ordinances

MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY ORDINANCE - SECT 52G

Supplementary provisions relating to vesting or re-vesting under this Part

(1) A contract or other document to which section 52B, 52D, 52E or 52F(1)
applies shall, to the extent of the relevant rights and  liabilities, have
effect as from the relevant date as if the Corporation is a party to the
contract or document in all respects and as if the Corporation were the same
person in law as KCRC.

(2) Accordingly, references (whether express or implied) to KCRC in the
contract or document referred to in subsection (1) shall, to the extent of the
relevant rights and liabilities, be taken as from the relevant date as
referring to the Corporation.

(3) Where the contract or document referred to in subsection (1) refers (in
whatever terms and whether expressly or by implication) to a person employed
by or engaged in the business of KCRC, it shall have effect, to the extent of
the relevant rights and liabilities and in relation to anything falling to be
done on or after the relevant date, as if for that reference there were
substituted a reference to such person as the Corporation may appoint or, in
default of appointment, to the person employed by or engaged in the business
of the Corporation who corresponds as nearly as may be to the person employed
by or engaged in the business of KCRC in question.

(4) A contract to which section 52C or 52F(3) applies shall, to the extent of
the rights and liabilities vested in KCRC by virtue of section  52C or 52F(3)
(as the case may be), have effect as from the relevant date as if KCRC is a
party to the contract in all respects and as if KCRC were the same person in
law as the Corporation.

(5) 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 section 52B, 52D, 52E or 52F(1) as they
would have had if that right or liability had at all times been a right or
liability of the Corporation.

(6) KCRC and all other persons have the same rights, powers and remedies for
ascertaining, perfecting or enforcing any right or liability vested in KCRC by
virtue of section 52C or 52F(3) as they would have had if that right or
liability had at all times been a right or liability of KCRC.

(7) In subsections (5) and (6), a reference to rights and powers includes 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. (Part
IXA added 11 of 2007 s. 20)