Hong Kong Regulations

ESTATE AGENTS (DETERMINATION OF COMMISSION DISPUTES) REGULATION - SECT 22

Form and effect of determination

(1) Subject to section 20(2), a determination shall be a reasoned
determination made orally or in writing as the adjudicator thinks fit.

(2) The adjudicator shall, when he has made a determination orally, reduce it
to writing as soon as possible, and in any case not later than 7 working days
after the date of his making the determination.

(3) The determination shall be signed by the adjudicator and delivered to the
parties and lodged with the Authority for filing. The determination shall be
the determination of the Authority for the purposes of the Ordinance.

(4) In addition to making a final determination, the adjudicator shall have
the power to make interim, interlocutory or partial determination during the
determination proceedings.

(5) A determination made by the adjudicator may be made public and published
and where the adjudicator considers it appropriate to do so, the determination
may be published on an anonymous basis.

(6) Notwithstanding subsection (5), the Authority shall be entitled to make
use of any findings made by an adjudicator for the purposes of exercising its
functions under the Ordinance, including, but without limitation, assessing
whether any licensee is a fit and proper person to be so licensed.