25 Aug 2021
香港特別行政區 訴 錦英苑 (二期) 業主立案法團
- Citation
- [2021] HKCFI 2405
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA186/2020
The court held that under the Fire Services (Elimination of Fire Hazards) Regulation reg 3 'personal' service on a corporation requires delivery to the corporation's responsible person(s) (eg senior officers or authorized representatives) and that simply placing notices into a mailbox at the registered office did not satisfy the statutory requirement of personal service; Building Management Ordinance s16 does not displace the specific service modes in the Fire Services Regulation. Accordingly the notices were not validly served and the convictions could not stand.