MAINLAND JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL
ENFORCEMENT) ORDINANCE
“choice of Hong Kong court agreement” (選用香港法院協議) has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(1);
“choice of Mainland court agreement” (選用內地法院協議) has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(2);
“chosen court” (選用法院) means the court or any of the courts specified in a choice of Mainland court agreement or choice of Hong Kong court agreement, as the case may be, as the court to determine a dispute to which the agreement applies;
“designated court” (指定法院) means a court in the Mainland which is specified in Schedule 1;
“Hong Kong judgment” (香港判決) includes any judgment, order and allocatur in civil or commercial matters that are given by a court in Hong Kong;
“judgment creditor” (判定債權人) means the person in whose favour a Mainland judgment was given, and includes any person in whom the rights under the judgment have become vested by succession or assignment or otherwise;
“judgment debtor” (判定債務人) means the person against whom a Mainland judgment was given, and includes any person against whom the judgment is enforceable under the law of the Mainland;
“Mainland” (內地) means any part of China other than Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan;
“Mainland judgment” (內地判決) means a judgment, ruling, conciliatory statement or order of payment in civil or commercial matters that is given by a designated court;
“original court” (原審法院), in relation to any Mainland judgment, means the designated court by which that judgment was given;
“recognized Basic People’s Court” (認可基層人民法院) means any Basic People’s Court which is specified in a list published in the Gazette under section 25(1) from time to time;
“registered judgment” (已登記判決) means a Mainland judgment registered under section 5(2);
“specified contract” (指明合約) means a contract other than—
- (a) an employment contract; and
- (b) a contract to which a natural person acting for personal consumption, family or other non-commercial purposes is a party.
