Hong Kong Ordinances

MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY ORDINANCE - SECT 8

Chief Executive may appoint additional directors

(1) The Chief Executive may appoint, for a period he directs, not more than 3
persons to be additional directors of the Corporation (in this
section referred to as "additional director").

(2) An additional director may not be removed from office except by the Chief
Executive.

(3) Subject to this Part, an additional director shall be treated for all
purposes as if he had been appointed at a general meeting of the Corporation
as a director of the Corporation.

(4) Without affecting the generality of subsection (3), an additional director
shall, in the same manner and to the same extent as any other director of the
Corporation, be entitled-

   (a)  to participate in meetings of the Corporation and the board of
        directors of the Corporation;

   (b)  to have access to all material concerning the affairs of the
        Corporation; and

   (c)  to be furnished with such information with respect to the affairs of
        the Corporation as he may specify.

(5) The Companies Ordinance ( Cap 32) and any other law, and any document,
shall be construed subject to this section.