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Eligibility Criteria for Hong Kong Housing Authority Home Ownership Scheme (2004 - 2005)

Eligibility Criteria for Hong Kong Housing Authority Secondary Market Scheme

Eligibility Criteria

1. Categories of Applicants (Note 1)

1. Housing Authority (HA) / Housing Society (HS) estate domestic flat tenants, authorized occupants of the HA's interim housing, and recipients of the Rent Allowance for Elderly Scheme.

2. Holders of valid Green Form Certificate. They include:

a) Waiting List applicants;

b) Clearees and disaster victims;

c) Junior civil servants applying for the Civil Service Public Housing Quota;

d) PRH residents involving divorce/splitting;

e) Domestic tenants affected by projects of the Urban Renewal Authority.

2. Household Income

and Asset Limits

No income and asset limits for category 1 applicants.

Category 2 applicants have to fulfil the income and asset limits as set out in the respective Green Form Certificate. (Note 2) (Note 5)

3. Domestic Property

Ownership

No domestic property ownership restriction for category 1 applicants.

Category 2 applicants have to fulfil the domestic property ownership restriction as set out in the respective Green Form Certificate. (Note 3) (Note 5)

4. Length of Residence

No length of residence restriction for category 1 applicants.

Category 2 applicants have to fulfil the length of residence restriction as set out in the respective Green Form Certificate. (Note 4) (Note 5)

5. Applicant’s Age

At least 18 years of age.

6. Household Composition

Single person or at least 2 persons’ household composition.

Note ：

1. Successful applicants have to surrender their existing flats or forfeit their rent allowance/public housing eligibility.

2. The Green From Certificate applicants with rental housing eligibility have to satisfy the income / asset limits of the Waiting List.

3. The Green Form Certificate applicants and all family members with rental housing eligibility must not own any domestic property in Hong Kong from the date of application. For those without rental housing eligibility, they must not own any domestic property in Hong Kong at any time within 24 months immediately prior to the date of application.

4. The applicant or one of the family members must have lived in Hong Kong for not less than 7 years on or before the date of submission of the application from, and his/her stay in Hong Kong is not subject to any conditions of stay (except form conditions concerning the limit of stay).

5 The restrictions on the household income/asset/domestic property ownership/length of residence are still applicable until the date prior to signing the Provisional Agreement for Sale and Purchase to purchase a Secondary Market flat.

Hong Kong Housing Authority. (2005). Hong Kong Housing Authority 2004/2005 Annual Report. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Housing Authority, Appendix 6B, p. 109.