REGISTRAR GENERAL (ESTABLISHMENT) ORDINANCE

REGISTRAR GENERAL (ESTABLISHMENT) ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

REGISTRAR GENERAL (ESTABLISHMENT)

ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 100





CHAPTER 100

REGISTRAR GENERAL (ESTABLISHMENTS

To provide for the appointment of a Registrar General and other
officers, to define their duties, and to make provision for
connected purposes.

[10 January 1969.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Registrar General
(Establishment) Ordinance.

2. (1) The Governor may appoint a Registrar General and such
other officers as may be required to assist the Registrar General in the
performance of his duties.

(2) No person shall be appointed Registrar General or to any of the
offices specified in Part 1 of the First Schedule unless on the date of
such appointment he is legally qualified.

(3) The Registrar General and any person appointed to an office
specified in Part 1 of the First Schedule shall be deemed to be legal
officers for the purpose of the Legal Officers Ordinance and shall have
all rights vested in legal officers by that Ordinance.

3. The Registrar General may exercise the powers and perform the
duties conferred or imposed upon the holder of any of the offices
specified in the Second Schedule.

4. Whenever in any Ordinance whether enacted before or after the
commencement of this Ordinance reference is made to any officer
holding any of the offices specified in the Second Schedule the same
shall be deemed to include a reference to the Registrar General.

5. (1) Any person appointed to an office specified in the First
Schedule may, subject to any instructions of the Registrar General,
exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred or imposed on the
Registrar General:

Provided that nothing in this subsection shall authorize any
person appointed to an office specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule
to exercise any of the rights vested in a legal officer by the Legal
Officers Ordinance.

(2) The Registrar General and any person appointed to an office
specified in the First Schedule may take any affidavit, affirmation or
statutory or other declaration required by or to be made before or
produced or delivered to or filed with the Registrar





General or with the holder of any of the offices specified in the Second
Schedule notwithstanding any Ordinance requiring the taking of such
affidavit, affirmation or statutory or other declaration by or before any
other person.

6. The Governor may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the
First and Second Schedules.

FIRST SCHEDULE

PART I

Assistant Registrar General
Deputy Principal Solicitor (Added, L.N. 169,82)
Assistant Principal Solicitor (Added, L.N. 80178)
Senior Solicitor
Solicitor
Assistant Solicitor

PART II

Insurance Officer (Added, L.N. 131 84)
Assistant Insurance Officer Added. L.N. 13 1/84)
Chief Assistant Registrar (Added, L.N. 392 81)
Senior Assistant Registrar
Assistant Registrar

SECOND SCHEDULE [ss. 3, 4. 5 & 6.]

Land Officer
Registrar of Companies
Registrar of Trade Marks
Registrar of Patents
Official Receiver (Amended, L.N. 268/84)
Official Solicitor (Amended, L.N. 111 78)
Official Trustee
Insurance Authority (Added, L.N. 131/84
(Amended, L.N. 163,79)
Originally 1 of 1969. L.N. 80/78. L.N. 111/78. L.N. 163/79. L.N. 392/81. L.N. 169/82. L.N. 131/84. L.N. 268/84. Short title. Appointment of Registrar General and other officers. First Schedule. (Cap. 87.) Powers and duties of Registrar General. Second Schedule. Reference to holders of offices in the Second Schedule to be deemed to refer to Registrar General. Powers and duties of officers appointed to assist the Registrar General. First Schedule. (Cap. 87.) Second Schedule. Governor may amend First and Second Schedules.

Originally 1 of 1969. L.N. 80/78. L.N. 111/78. L.N. 163/79. L.N. 392/81. L.N. 169/82. L.N. 131/84. L.N. 268/84. Short title. Appointment of Registrar General and other officers. First Schedule. (Cap. 87.) Powers and duties of Registrar General. Second Schedule. Reference to holders of offices in the Second Schedule to be deemed to refer to Registrar General. Powers and duties of officers appointed to assist the Registrar General. First Schedule. (Cap. 87.) Second Schedule. Governor may amend First and Second Schedules.

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