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[接上页] Cap 581 s 28 Entitlement to compensation: depositors in their own right Remarks: not yet in operation (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. Cap 581 s 29 Entitlement to compensation: bare trusts and client accounts Remarks: not yet in operation (1) Subject to this Division, if a depositor of a protected deposit with a failed Scheme member holds the deposit as a bare trustee under a bare trust, the beneficiary, but not the depositor, is entitled, in respect of the deposit as at the date of the specified event, to compensation from the Fund. (2) Subject to this Division, if a depositor of a protected deposit with a failed Scheme member holds the deposit as a bare trustee under different bare trusts, the beneficiary of each of those trusts, but not the depositor, is entitled, in respect of the portion of the deposit held under the trust as at the date of the specified event, to compensation from the Fund. (3) Subject to this Division, if a depositor of a protected deposit with a failed Scheme member holds the deposit in a client account for a client, the client, but not the depositor, is entitled, in respect of the deposit as at the date of the specified event, to compensation from the Fund. (4) If the beneficiary or client 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.(5) For the purposes of subsection (4)(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. Cap 581 s 30 Entitlement to compensation: trusts Remarks: not yet in operation (1) Subject to this Division, if a depositor of a protected deposit with a failed Scheme member holds the deposit as a trustee under a trust, the depositor is entitled, in respect of the deposit as at the date of the specified event, to compensation from the Fund as such trustee of the trust. (2) Subject to this Division, if a depositor of a protected deposit with a failed Scheme member holds the deposit as a trustee under different trusts, the depositor is entitled, in respect of each portion of the deposit held under each of those trusts as at the date of the specified event, to compensation from the Fund as such trustee of the trust. (3) If the depositor consists of 2 or more persons, 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 trustees. Cap 581 s 31 Restrictions on entitlement to compensation Remarks: not yet in operation (1) If a depositor of a Scheme member or any other person is entitled, in respect of the depositor’s protected deposit with the Scheme member, to compensation under this Division, any such compensation shall be paid to the depositor, but not any other person, in accordance with this Ordinance. (2) No action to enforce any entitlement to compensation under this Division may be brought in any court unless the action is commenced within 5 years after the date of the specified event concerned. (3) If a person has, in respect of a protected deposit or portion thereof, been paid an amount of compensation out of the Investor Compensation Fund established under section 236 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap 571) in respect of a claim for compensation made under rules made under Part XII of that Ordinance, no person is entitled, in respect of the deposit or that portion (as the case may be), to compensation under this Division. (4) If the Board has paid a depositor of a protected deposit the entire amount of compensation payable to the depositor in accordance with this Ordinance, no other person is entitled, in respect of the deposit, to compensation under this Division. |