Hong Kong Ordinances

FIRE SAFETY (BUILDINGS) ORDINANCE - SECT 14

Registration of fire safety compliance order, etc. in the Land Registry

(1) The relevant enforcement authority may cause to be registered by memorial
a fire safety compliance order or variance thereof or a prohibition order
against the land register of the relevant property in the Land Registry.

(2) Where-

   (a)  a fire safety compliance order or variance thereof is registered under
        subsection (1) and subsequently-

        (i)    the order is revoked under section 6(4); or

        (ii)   the relevant enforcement authority has, by a written notice
               referred to in section 6(6), informed the magistrate's clerk
               that the order has been complied with; or

   (b)  a prohibition order is registered under subsection (1) and
        subsequently-

        (i)    a certificate of compliance has been issued under section  12
               (3); or

        (ii)   the order is- (A) discharged under section 12(5); or (B)
               revoked under section 13(3), the relevant enforcement authority
               must cause to be registered by memorial the revocation, notice,
               certificate of compliance or discharge, as the case may be,
               against the land register of the relevant property in the Land
               Registry as soon as practicable and in any event not later than
               one month after the date of the revocation, notice, certificate
               of compliance or discharge.

(3) Where a corporation has been registered with the Land Registrar under
section 8 of the Building Management Ordinance ( Cap 344) and an order
referred to in subsection (1) has been made against the corporation, such
order shall, for the purposes of registration under this section, be deemed to
have been made against each of the owners of the building individually.