Employment Ordinance

(1)
Any person who contravenes
section 51(2)
shall be guilty of an
                offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 3.
(Amended
24 of 1988 s. 2
;
28 of 1992 s. 8
)
(2)
Any person who contravenes
section 53(5)
or
55(4)
shall
                be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level
                    3.
(Amended
24 of 1988 s. 2
)
(3)
Any licensee who contravenes
section 52(2A)
, (2B) or (2C) or 56(1),
                (2) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine
                at level 3.
(Amended
24 of 1988 s. 2
;
28 of 1992 s. 8
)
(4)
(Repealed
24 of 1988 s. 2
)
(5)
Any person
who—
(a)
in connection with any application to the Commissioner under
section
                        52(1)
or
54(1)
furnishes any information which he knows or
                    reasonably ought to know to be false or misleading in any material particular;
                    or
(b)
in connection with any inquiry or inspection under
section
                    58
—
(i)
fails without reasonable excuse to produce any record or other document
                        relating to the employment agency when required to do so by the Commissioner
                        or any public officer authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner;
                            or
(Amended
28 of 1992 s. 7
)
(ii)
furnishes to the Commissioner or any such public officer any
                        information which he knows or reasonably ought to know to be false or
                        misleading in any material particular,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at
                level 5.
(Amended
24 of 1988 s. 2
)
(6)
A person who contravenes
section 51(1)
commits an offence and is
                liable on conviction to a fine of $350,000 and to imprisonment for 3 years.
(Replaced
8 of 2018 s. 7
)
(7)
A person who contravenes
section 57(1
)(
a)
commits an offence and is
                liable on conviction to a fine of $350,000 and to imprisonment for 3 years.
(Replaced
8 of 2018 s. 7
)
(8)
Despite
section 26
of the Magistrates Ordinance (
Cap. 227
), a complaint may be made or an information
                laid in respect of an offence under subsection (6) or (7) within 12 months after the
                date of the commission of the offence.
(Added
8 of 2018 s. 7
)
(9)
A person who contravenes
section 57(1
)(
b)
or
(c)
commits
                an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 5.
(Added
8 of 2018 s. 7
)