HONG KONG
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ----8 March 1989 香港立法局———————————一九八九年三月八日
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as entertainer or sportsman on or in connection with a commercial occasion or event, including -
(i) any appearance of the entertainer or sportsman by way of or in connection with the promotion of any such occasion or event; and
(ii) any participation by the entertainer or sportsman in or for sound recording, films, videos, radio, television or other similar transmissions (whether live or recorded).
(2) Where this section applies, the non-resident person is chargeable to tax in respect of the sums described in subsection (1) in the name of any person in Hong Kong who paid or credited those sums to that or any other non-resident person, and the tax so charged shall be recoverable by all means provided in this Ordinance from that person in Hong Kong.
(3) Where a person in Hong Kong from whom tax is recoverable by virtue of this section pays or credits to a non-resident person (whether or not he is the non-resident person who is chargeable to tax) sums described in subsection (1) he shall, at the time he makes the payment or credit, deduct from those sums so much thereof as is sufficient to produce the amount of such tax, and he is hereby indemnified against any person in respect of his deduction of such sum.
(4) In this section
"entertainer or sportsman" means a person, other than a corporation, who gives performances (whether alone or with others) in his character as entertainer or sportsman in any kind of entertainment or sport, including any activity of a physical kind which (whether in a live or recorded form) the public or any section of the public is or may be permitted (whether for payment or not) to see or hear;
"commercial occasion or event" includes any description of occasion or
event
(a) for which an entertainer or sportsman (or other person) might, by virtue of his performance of the activity, receive or become entitled to receive anything by way of cash or any other form of property; or