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MAINLAND JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ORDINANCE :(a) for providing information to courts in the Mainland on the status of enforcement in Hong Kong of a registered judgment and a Hong Kong judgment;
 * (b) for making provisions with respect to the issue of certified copies of and certificates for Hong Kong judgments given by the District Court under section 21(2) together with all related documents; and
 * (c) for prescribing any fees which under any provisions of this Ordinance is to be prescribed by the rules of court made under this subsection.

24. Power to amend Schedule 1

The Chief Executive in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, amend Schedule 1.

25. Publication of list of Basic People’s Courts

(1) The Secretary for Justice shall from time to time publish in the Gazette a list of Basic People’s Courts for the purposes of this Ordinance.

(2) A list published under subsection (1) is not subsidiary legislation.

26. Special provisions for chosen courts becoming or ceasing to be recognized Basic People’s Courts

(1) If any chosen court was not a recognized Basic People’s Court at the date of the choice of Mainland court agreement, the chosen court shall not be regarded as a recognized Basic People’s Court for the purposes of this Ordinance even though the chosen court has subsequently become a recognized Basic People’s Court.

(2) If, in relation to any Mainland judgment, any chosen court was a recognized Basic People’s Court at the date of the choice of Mainland court agreement and it remained as such at the date of the judgment, the chosen court shall be regarded as a recognized Basic People’s Court for the purposes of this Ordinance even though the chosen court has subsequently ceased to be a recognized Basic People’s Court.

27. Consequential amendments

The enactments specified in Schedule 2 are amended as set out in that Schedule.