Hong Kong Ordinances

SOCIETIES ORDINANCE - SECT 20

Membership, etc.

(1) Save as is provided in subsection (2), any person who is or acts as a
member of an unlawful society or attends a meeting of an unlawful society or
who pays money or gives any aid to or for the purposes of an unlawful society
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment-

   (a)  in the case of a first conviction for that offence to a fine of $20000
        and to imprisonment for 12 months; and

   (b)  in the case of a second or subsequent conviction for that offence to a
        fine of $50000 and to imprisonment for 2 years. (Amended L.N. 19 of
        1987)

(2) Any person who is or acts as a member of a triad society or professes or
claims to be a member of a triad society or attends a meeting of a triad
society or who pays money or gives any aid to or for the purposes of the triad
society or is found in possession of or has the custody or control of any
books, accounts, writing, lists of members, seals, banners or insignia of or
relating to any triad society or to any branch of a triad society whether or
not such society or branch is established in Hong Kong, shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment- (Amended 36 of 1964
s. 4; 30 of 1988 s. 4)

   (a)  in the case of a first conviction for that offence to a fine of
        $100000 and to imprisonment for 3 years; and

   (b)  in the case of a second or subsequent conviction for that offence to a
        fine of $250000 and to imprisonment for 7 years. (Amended L.N. 19 of
        1987) (Replaced 28 of 1961 s. 8. Amended 75 of 1992 s. 13)