Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance Part 6 6-8 Section 50 Cap. 593 member may continue to hear the appeal until the appeal is determined. 50. Procedure on appeal (1) In the hearing of an appeal, every question before the Appeal Board shall be determined by the opinion of the majority of the members hearing the appeal except a question of law which shall be determined by the presiding officer, and in the case of an equality of votes the presiding officer shall have a casting vote. (2) A party to an appeal shall be entitled to be heard— (a) where the party is an individual, either in person or through a counsel or solicitor; or (b) where the party is an organization, either through a counsel or solicitor or through— (i) in the case of a Hong Kong company or other company or body corporate, any of its directors or other officers; (ii) in the case of a partnership, any of its partners; and (iii) in the case of any other organization, any of its officers. (3) The Appeal Board may, if it sees fit, permit a party to an appeal to submit written representations to the Appeal Board in lieu of the party appearing at a sitting of the Appeal Board either in person or through a counsel or solicitor or a director, officer or partner referred to in subsection (2). (4) Every sitting of the Appeal Board shall be held in public unless the Appeal Board considers that in the interests of justice a sitting or part of a sitting should not be held in public, in which case it may hold the sitting or part of the sitting in private. Last updated date 2.8.2012