Page:Deposit Protection Scheme Ordinance (Cap. 581).pdf/23

DEPOSIT PROTECTION SCHEME ORDINANCE :(a) in the case of the date of the specified event within the meaning of section 22(1)(b)(i), a right of set off exists in the winding up of the failed Scheme member;
 * (b) in the case of the date of the specified event within the meaning of section 22(1)(b)(ii), a right of set off would have existed in the winding up of the failed Scheme member had a winding-up order been made in respect of it on that date,

plus or minus, as the case may be, the interest accrued on the deposits, or the liabilities, calculated up to and including the quantification date.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3)—
 * (a) if any protected deposit or liabilities are not denominated in Hong Kong dollars, the deposit or liabilities shall be converted into Hong Kong dollars at the midpoint between the selling and buying telegraphic transfer rates of exchange quoted by HKAB on the quantification date or, where no such rates are quoted, at an exchange rate determined by the Board; and
 * (b) in determining the amount of liabilities of the person to the failed Scheme member, the same rules shall apply with regard to the valuation of annuities and future and contingent liabilities as are in force for the time being under the law of bankruptcy with respect to the estates of persons adjudged bankrupt, as if the failed Scheme member were a person so adjudged.

28. Entitlement to compensation: depositors in their own right

(1) Subject to this Division, if a depositor of a protected deposit with a failed Scheme member holds the deposit in his own right, the depositor is entitled, in respect of the deposit as at the date of the specified event, to compensation from the Fund.

(2) If the depositor consists of 2 or more persons—
 * (a) in the case where the persons carry on business in partnership, those persons are, for the purpose of entitlement to compensation from the Fund, a single and continuing body of persons as distinct from the persons who may from time to time be the members of the partnership;
 * (b) in any other case, each of those persons is entitled, in respect of his share in the protected deposit as at the date of the specified event, to compensation from the Fund.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(b), each of the persons is deemed to have an equal share in the protected deposit unless the contrary is proved to the satisfaction of the Board.