Cap. 21activeordinance

Defamation Ordinance

誹謗條例

Full legislation

s.8

8.

A fair and accurate report of the findings or decision of any of the
                    following associations, or of any committee or governing body thereof, that is
                    to
say—
(a)
an association formed in Hong Kong for the purpose of promoting or
                        encouraging the exercise of or interest in any art, science, religion or
                        learning, and empowered by its constitution to exercise control over or
                        adjudicate upon matters of interest or concern to the association, or the
                        actions or conduct of any persons subject to such control or
                        adjudication;
(b)
an association formed in Hong Kong for the purpose of promoting or
                        safeguarding the interests of any trade, business, industry or profession,
                        or of the persons carrying on or engaged in any trade, business, industry or
                        profession, and empowered by its constitution to exercise control over or
                        adjudicate upon matters connected with the trade, business, industry or
                        profession, or the actions or conduct of those persons;
(c)
an association formed in Hong Kong for the purpose of promoting or
                        safeguarding the interests of any game, sport or pastime to the playing or
                        exercise of which members of the public are invited or admitted, and
                        empowered by its constitution to exercise control over or adjudicate upon
                        persons connected with or taking part in the game, sport or
                        pastime,
being a finding or decision relating to a person who is a member of or is
                    subject by virtue of any contract to the control of the
                    association.