(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.
31. Restrictions on entitlement to compensation
(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.
Division 3—Payment of compensation and related matters
32. Board’s duties and powers on occurrence of specified event
(1) If a specified event has occurred in relation to a Scheme member—
- (a) the Board shall as soon as practicable after the occurrence inform the depositors of the Scheme member by notice published in any daily newspaper in circulation in Hong Kong, or by other means the Board considers appropriate, of the occurrence; and
- (b) the Board—
- (i) may, for the purpose of performing its functions, require a depositor, or each depositor of a class of depositors, of the Scheme member to supply the Board with information and documents in support of the entitlement of the depositor or other persons to compensation under Division 2; and
