Chapter:	112	Title:	Inland Revenue Ordinance	Gazette Number:	E.R. 1 of 2012
Section:	69	Heading:	Appeals to the Court of First Instance	Version Date:	09/02/2012

(1) The decision of the Board shall be final:
Provided that either the appellant or the Commissioner may make an application requiring the Board to state a case on a question of law for the opinion of the Court of First Instance. Such application shall not be entertained unless it is made in writing and delivered to the clerk to the Board, together with a fee of the amount specified in Part 2 of Schedule 5, within 1 month of the date of the Board's decision. If the decision of the Board shall be notified to the Commissioner or to the appellant in writing, the date of the decision, for the purposes of determining the period within which either of such persons may require a case to be stated, shall be the date of the communication by which the decision is notified to him. (Amended 49 of 1956 s. 50; 11 of 1985 s. 6; 4 of 1989 s. 4; 56 of 1993 s. 28; 12 of 2004 s. 15)
(1A) The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury may by order amend the amount specified in Part 2 of Schedule 5. (Added 12 of 2004 s. 15)
(2) The stated case shall set forth the facts and the decision of the Board, and the party requiring it shall transmit the case, when stated and signed, to the Court of First Instance within 14 days after receiving the same.
(3) At or before the time when he transmits the stated case to the Court of First Instance, the party requiring it shall send to the other party notice in writing of the fact that the case has been stated on his application and shall supply him with a copy of the stated case.
(4) Any judge of the Court of First Instance may cause a stated case to be sent back for amendment and thereupon the case shall be amended accordingly.
(5) Any judge of the Court of First Instance shall hear and determine any question of law arising on the stated case and may in accordance with the decision of the court upon such question confirm, reduce, increase or annul the assessment determined by the Board, or may remit the case to the Board with the opinion of the court thereon. Where a case is so remitted by the court, the Board shall revise the assessment as the opinion of the court may require.
(6) In any proceedings before the Court of First Instance under this section, the court may make such order in regard to costs in the Court of First Instance and in regard to the sum paid under subsection (1) as to the court may seem fit.
(7) Appeals from decisions of the Court of First Instance under this section shall be governed by the provisions of the High Court Ordinance (Cap 4), the Rules of the High Court (Cap 4 sub. leg. A), and the Orders and Rules governing appeals to the Court of Final Appeal. (Amended 92 of 1975 s. 58; 79 of 1995 s. 50)
(8) (Repealed 12 of 2004 s. 15)