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[接上页] (l) enter into agreements with any person for the management by such person of any land owned or held by the Authority; (m) conduct any survey and census as it thinks fit for the purpose of drawing up any plans and for the purposes of ascertaining a rehousing commitment resulting from any project of the Authority; (n) surrender any lease or apply for and agree to the modification of lease conditions or enter into any exchange; (o) undertake and execute any trust which has for its object the furtherance of urban renewal or any other object similar or incidental to any of the purposes of the Authority; (p) accept gifts and donations, whether of property or otherwise and whether subject to any trust or not; (q) appoint such employees as it may determine on such terms and conditions as the Authority thinks fit including the payment of allowances, benefits and remuneration; (r) make or provide ex gratia payments to any employee, or to the personal representative of a deceased employee or to any other person who was dependent on such employee at his death; (s) establish any body corporate for the purpose of doing all such things which the Authority may do and may vest in any such body corporate so established such objects and powers as in the opinion of the Authority are calculated to facilitate the attainment of the purposes of the Authority under this Ordinance; (t) exercise any of its powers either alone or in association with any other person or persons. Cap 563 s 7 Members to declare interests PART III PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY (1) As soon as is practicable after appointment to membership or as and when the occasion may thereafter require, a member of the Board of the Authority, including the Chairman and the Managing Director, shall declare to the Authority in such manner as is for the time being determined by the Authority, whether by standing orders or otherwise, any interest of his which is of a class or description so determined. (2) The Authority shall establish and maintain a register ("the register") for the purposes of this section. (3) Where a member of the Board of the Authority makes a declaration required under subsection (1), the Authority shall cause the name of the member to be entered in the register together with the particulars contained in the declaration, and if, in accordance with such a requirement, a member subsequently makes any such declaration, the particulars already so entered shall be added to or otherwise amended in such manner as the Authority considers appropriate. (4) The Authority shall make the register available for public inspection at its principal office at any reasonable time. (5) A member of the Board of the Authority, including the Chairman and the Managing Director, who is in any way directly or indirectly interested in a contract made or proposed to be made by the Authority, or in a contract made or proposed to be made by a servant or an agent or a partner of the Authority, or, by a body corporate established by the Authority which is brought up for consideration by the Board, shall disclose the nature of his interest at a meeting of the Board; and the disclosure shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the Board, and the member shall not without the permission of the Chairman, and in the case of the Chairman, the permission of the majority of the members present at the meeting, take any part in any deliberation of the Board with respect to that contract and shall not in any event vote on any question concerning it. (6) Where a disclosure is made under subsection (5) and the person concerned is not required to withdraw from the relevant meeting, then for so long as the matter to which the disclosure relates is being discussed or otherwise considered at such meeting, the presence of the person by whom the disclosure was made shall be disregarded for the purposes of forming a quorum for the meeting. (7) The validity of any proceedings of the Authority shall not be affected by the failure by a member of the Board of the Authority to comply with this section. (8) A member of the Board of the Authority need not attend in person at the meeting of the Authority in order to make a disclosure which he is required to make under subsection (5) if he takes reasonable steps to secure that the disclosure is made by a notice in writing which is brought up and read at the meeting. Cap 563 s 8 Duty of public officers to state public interest Where at a meeting of the Board a member who is a public officer and is present considers that any matter whatsoever which is to be or is being considered, decided or determined by the Authority, is or could be contrary to, or otherwise raises or puts in issue, or could so raise or put in issue, the public interest as perceived by him, the following shall apply- (a) he shall state to the meeting his opinion regarding the relation between the public interest, as so perceived, and the matter, and, where appropriate, he shall also state how, in his opinion, an actual or potential conflict with that interest, as so perceived, arises or could arise; and |