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CAP. 24]
Securities and Futures Commission
[1989 Ed.
"registered person" (A) means a person who is registered under the Securities Ordinance (Cap. 333), the Commodities Trading Ordinance (Cap. 250) (or both those Ordinances) as a dealer, dealing partnership, dealer's representative, investment adviser, commodity trading adviser, investment advisers' partnership, investment representative or a commodity trading adviser's representative;
"the relevant Ordinances" (H) means this Ordinance, the Securities Ordinance (Cap. 333), the Commodity Exchanges (Prohibition) Ordinance (Cap. 82), the Commodities Trading Ordinance (Cap. 250), the Protection of Investors Ordinance (Cap. 335), the Stock Exchanges Unification Ordinance (Cap. 361) and the Securities (Disclosure of Interests) Ordinance (Cap. 396);
"securities" (*) has the meaning assigned to it by section 2(1) of the Securities Ordinance (Cap. 333);
"Stock Exchange Company" (#5) means the Exchange Company within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Stock Exchanges Unification Ordinance (Cap. 361);
"trading in commodity futures contracts" (AIX) has the meaning assigned to it by section 2(1) of the Commodities Trading Ordinance (Cap. 250);
"tribunal" (##) means a tribunal appointed under section 20;
"Unified Exchange" (4) has the meaning assigned to it by section 2(1) of the Stock Exchanges Unification Ordinance (Cap. 361).
PART II
SECURITIES AND FUTURES COMMISSION
3. Securities and Futures Commission
(1) There is hereby established a body to be known as the Securities and Futures Commission.
(2) The Commission shall be a body corporate with power to sue and be sued.
(3) The receipts of the Commission shall not be subject to taxation under the Inland Revenue Ordinance (Cap. 112).
(4) (a) The Commission shall provide itself with a seal.
(b) The seal of the Commission shall be authenticated by the signature of the chairman or deputy chairman of the Commission or, if both the chairman and deputy chairman of the Commission are absent from Hong Kong or unable to act, the signature of some other director of the Commission authorized by it to act in that behalf.