Cap. 20activeordinance

Bills of Sale Ordinance

賣據條例

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s.4

Application of the Ordinance to trade machinery

(1)
Trade machinery shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be personal chattels, and any mode of disposition of trade machinery by the owner thereof which would be a bill of sale as to any other personal chattels shall be deemed to be a bill of sale within the meaning of this Ordinance.
(Amended
50 of 1911 s. 4
)
(2)
For the purposes of this Ordinance,
trade
                        machinery
(
營業機器
) means the machinery used in or
                    attached to any factory or
workshops—
(a)
exclusive of the fixed motive-powers, such as the water-wheels and steam engines, and the steam-boilers, donkey engines, and other fixed appurtenances of the said motive-powers; and
(b)
exclusive of the fixed power machinery, such as the shafts, wheels, drums, and their fixed appurtenances, which transmit the action of the motive-powers to the other machinery fixed and loose; and
(c)
exclusive of the pipes for steam, gas, and water in the factory or workshop.
(3)
The machinery or effects excluded by this section from the definition of trade machinery shall not be deemed to be personal chattels within the meaning of this Ordinance.
(4)
For the purposes of this Ordinance,
factory
(
工廠
) or
workshop
(
工場
) means any premises on which any
                    manual labour is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or
                    incidental to the following purposes or any of
them—
(a)
making any article or part of an article; or
(b)
altering, repairing, or finishing any article; or
(c)
adapting for sale any article.
(Amended
51 of 1911
;
62 of 1911
Schedule;
5 of 1924
Schedule
)