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s.4
Certain steps not to amount to submission to jurisdiction of overseas court
For the purposes of determining whether a judgment given by a court of an overseas country should be recognized or enforced in Hong Kong, the person against whom the judgment was given shall not be treated as having submitted to the jurisdiction of the court by reason only of the fact that he appeared (conditionally or otherwise) in the proceedings for any of the following purposes— (a) to contest the jurisdiction of the court; (b) to ask the court to dismiss or stay the proceedings on the ground that the dispute in question should be submitted to arbitration or to the determination of the courts of another country; (c) to protect, or obtain the release of, property seized or threatened with seizure in the proceedings. [cf. 1982 c. 27 s. 33 U.K.]