Gazette

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette consists of seven parts :

• Main Gazette - statutory notices, for appointments, departmental notices and public tenders;
• Legal Supplement No. 1 – Ordinances;
• Legal Supplement No. 2 – Regulations;
• Legal Supplement No. 3 - Bills;
• Special Supplement No. 4 - Periodical lists of registered professionals, etc;
• Special Supplement No. 5 - Draft Bills, Executive Orders, Orders of the State Council, etc; and
• Supplement No. 6 - Public Notices.

The Government Gazette notices may contain personal data. Users are reminded to comply with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486), in particular, data protection principle 3, which provides that unless with the prescribed consent of the data subject, a data user may not use any personal data for any purpose other than the purpose for which the data were to be used at the time of collection of the data or a purpose directly related to the purpose.

The Government Gazette is normally published on Friday. The publication was re-numbered as Volume No. 1 in July 1997. The issue numbers and all notice numbers will start afresh at the beginning of each calendar year. In addition, Gazette Extraordinary is published on need basis with its own sequence of issue numbers and notice numbers.

The following Gazette issues are available on this website:

• Main Gazette, Legal Supplements No. 1, 2, 3 and Special Supplement No. 5 from 19 May 2000; and
• Special Supplement No. 4 and Supplement No. 6 from 1 April 2008.

For issues prior to these dates, the printed versions are available in the public libraries (from 1844 to 1997; from 1997 onwards) and the Government Records Service.

• Legal Supplements No. 1, 2, 3 and Supplement No. 6 (Private Bills only) (from 1960 onwards), and Legal Supplement No. 7
  (from 1992 to 1997) are also available on the Hong Kong e-Legislation (https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/gazette) for information.

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