Cap. 51activeordinance

Gas Safety Ordinance

氣體安全條例

Full legislation

s.27

Offences

(1)
Any person who contravenes any direction specified in an improvement notice
                (including any such notice as modified on an appeal under
section 13
)
                commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine
                at
                level 4 and to imprisonment for 6 months and, in the case of a
                continuing offence, to a daily penalty of $2,000.
(1A)
Any person who contravenes
section 13AA(3
)(
a)
commits an offence and
                is liable on conviction to a fine at level 4 and to imprisonment for 6 months and,
                in the case of a continuing offence, to a daily penalty of $2,000.
(Added
22 of 1996 s. 6
)
(1B)
Any person who contravenes
section 13AA(3
)(
b)
commits an offence and
                is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2.
(Added
22 of 1996 s. 6
)
(2)
Any person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes any requirement
                specified in a notice under
section 14
commits an offence and is liable
                on conviction to a fine
                at
                level 3 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a daily
                penalty of $1,000.
(3)
Any person who contravenes
section 15(1)
commits an offence and is
                liable on conviction to a fine
                at
                level 4 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(4)
Any person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes any requirement
                specified in a
notice under
section 21
,
                or contravenes any requirement under
section 23(2
)(
b)
, commits an offence
                and is liable on conviction to a fine
                at
                level 2 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
(5)
Any person
who—
(a)
wilfully obstructs, resists or delays the Authority or an inspector in the
                    exercise of his functions under this Ordinance;
(b)
fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any lawful requirement of
                    the Authority or an inspector under this Ordinance; or
(c)
makes a statement which he knows to be false or recklessly makes a statement
                    which is false where the statement is
made—
(i)
in purported compliance with a requirement under this Ordinance to
                        furnish any information; or
(ii)
for the purpose of obtaining the issue of a document under this
                        Ordinance to himself or another person,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine
                at
                level 4 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(6)
For the purposes
of—
(a)
subsection
(5
)(
a)
,
inspector
(
氣體安全督察
) shall include any person
                    assisting an inspector in the exercise of his functions under this Ordinance;
                    and
(b)
subsection
(5
)(
b)
,
this
                        Ordinance
(
本條例
) shall not include regulations made
                    under
section 8
.