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FIRE SAFETY (BUILDINGS) ORDINANCE ::(ii) by sending it by registered post in a letter addressed to the person at the person’s usual place of residence or business or, if the person’s address is unknown, addressed to the person’s last known place of residence or business; or
 * (b) in the case of a person that is a body corporate—
 * (i) by delivering it to any place in Hong Kong at which the body carries on business and giving it to a person apparently concerned in the management of, or apparently employed by, the body; or
 * (ii) by sending it to the body by registered post in a letter addressed to the body at its registered office in Hong Kong or at any place in Hong Kong at which the body carries on business.

24. Chief Executive in Council may make regulations

The Chief Executive in Council may make regulations—
 * (a) prescribing anything required or permitted to be prescribed by regulations under this Ordinance; and
 * (b) generally providing for the better carrying into effect of the provisions and purposes of this Ordinance.

25. Effect of substituted or amended codes of practice

(1) If a code of practice specified in a Schedule to this Ordinance is substituted or amended, the substituted code or the code as amended applies for the purposes of this Ordinance only when—
 * (a) the Legislative Council has passed a resolution declaring that the substituted code or the code as amended is to apply for those purposes;
 * (b) the reference to the code in the Schedule is amended in accordance with subsection (2); and
 * (c) that amendment has taken effect.

(2) If the Legislative Council has passed a resolution declaring that a substituted code or a code as amended is to apply for the purposes of this Ordinance, the Secretary for Security may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the relevant Schedule by substituting the reference to the substituted or amended code for the reference to the code then specified in that Schedule.

(3) Such an amendment takes effect on the date on which the order is published in the Gazette or on such later date as may be specified in the order.