(20) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with an order served on him under section 24A, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction-
(a) to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment
for 2 years; and
(b) to a fine of $10,000 for each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the failure to comply with the order has continued.",
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 29th day of November, 1972.
HONG KONG
No. 72 of 1972
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
Clerk to the Legislative Council,
I assent.
M
Governor.
14th December, 1972.
Mia Lelen.
An Ordinance to amend the Law Amendment and Reform (Con-
solidation) Ordinance.
[15th December. 1972]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Law Amendment and Reform (Consolidation) (Amendment) Ordinance 1972.
* Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is repealed.
3. The principal Ordinance is amended by inserting, after section 13, the following new section-
"Part per- formance and damages.
13A. (1) A court may award damages for breach of a contract of which there has been part performance notwithstanding that an order for specific performance could not, in the circumstances of the case, be made by the court.
Short title.
Repeal of section 12. (CAR. 233
Addition of new section 13A.