Chapter:	469	Title:	OCCUPATIONAL DEAFNESS (COMPENSATION) ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	7	Heading:	Government payments	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) The Government shall each year make payments to the Board for the benefit of the Fund out of moneys appropriated for that purpose by the Legislative Council.
(2) The Government's payment under subsection (1) is ascertained as follows-

Government payment = A x B x C
D

"A" is the levy received or receivable by the Employees' Compensation Insurance Levies Management Board under Part IV of the Employees' Compensation Insurance Levies Ordinance (Cap 411);
"B" is the proportion of the net resources of the Employees' Compensation Insurance Levies Management Board specified in the third column of Schedule 2 to the Employees' Compensation Insurance Levies Ordinance (Cap 411) to be distributed to the Occupational Deafness Compensation Board under section 7(1) of that Ordinance;
"C" is the number of employees in the civil service sector;
"D" is the total number of employees in Hong Kong, excluding the number of employees in the civil service sector.