1987 Ed.]
Banking
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133. The Commissioner may specify the form of application for licensing or registration and of any notice, certificate or other document required for the purposes of this Ordinance.
134. Without limiting the generality of section 356 of the Companies Ordinance, a document may be served on an authorized institution by leaving it at or sending it by post to its principal place of business in Hong Kong.
135. (1) The Governor in Council may, by notice in the Gazette, amend the First Schedule.
(2) The Legislative Council may, by resolution, amend the Second Schedule.
(3) The Financial Secretary may, by notice in the Gazette, amend the Third and Fourth Schedules.
(4) The Commissioner may, by notice in the Gazette, amend the Fifth Schedule.
136. No prosecution in respect of any offence under this Ordinance shall be instituted without the consent in writing of the Attorney General.
137. [Amendments Incorporated]
137A. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Gambling Ordinance shall not apply to any transaction proposed to be entered into, or entered into, by an authorized institution.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a transaction, or a transaction belonging to a class of transactions, specified by the Commissioner by notice in the Gazette as being a transaction, or a class of transactions, as the case may be, to which that subsection shall not apply.
(Added 64 of 1987, s. 28)
PART XXII
TRANSITIONAL, Savings and Repeal
138. In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires-
"former bank" means a bank which, immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, held a former banking licence;
"former Banking Advisory Committee" means the Banking Advisory Committee established by section 3 of the former Banking Ordinance and as constituted immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance;
Power to specify forms.
Service of documents. (Cap. 32.)
Power to amend Schedules. First Schedule.
Second Schedule.
Third Schedule. Fourth Schedule.
Fifth Schedule.
Consent of Attorney General.
Exclusion of provisions of Gambling Ordinance. (Cap. 148.)
Interpretation.