Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance

(1A)
Where an Ordinance confers a power on a person to make subsidiary legislation,
                the subsidiary legislation may impose a fee or charge for anything in it or the
                    Ordinance.
(Added
89 of 1993 s. 12
)
(1)
Where provision is made by any subsidiary legislation in respect of fees or
                other charges, such subsidiary legislation may provide for all or any of the
                following
matters—
(a)
specific fees or charges;
(b)
maximum or minimum fees or charges;
(c)
maximum and minimum fees or charges;
(d)
the payment of fees or charges either generally or under specified
                    conditions or in specified circumstances;
(e)
the exemption of any person or class of persons from the payment of fees or
                    charges; and
(f)
the reduction, waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of any such fees or
                    charges, either upon the happening of a certain event or in the discretion of a
                    specified person.
(2)
Where any reduction, waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of any fee or charge
                is provided for by any subsidiary legislation, such reduction, waiver or refund may
                be expressed to apply or be applicable either generally or
specially—
(a)
in respect of certain matters or transactions or classes of matters or
                    transactions;
(b)
in respect of certain documents or classes of documents;
(c)
in respect of the occurrence or the termination of any event;
(d)
in respect of certain persons or classes of persons; or
(e)
in respect of any combination of such matters, transactions, documents,
                    events or persons,
and may be expressed to apply or be applicable subject to such conditions as
                may be specified in the subsidiary legislation or in the discretion of any person
                specified therein.