Hong Kong Ordinances

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ORDINANCE - SECT 9F

Prohibition against agreements to indemnify surety

(1) Any agreement indemnifying or purporting to indemnify any person against
any liability which he may incur as a surety to secure the
surrender to custody of a person admitted to bail shall be void.

(2) Any person who enters into an agreement of the description mentioned in
subsection (1) commits an offence.

(3) An offence under subsection (2) is committed whether the agreement is
entered into before or after the person to be indemnified becomes a surety and
whether or not he becomes a surety and whether the agreement contemplates
compensation in money or money's worth.

(4) Any person who commits an offence under subsection (2) is liable on
summary conviction to a fine of $75000 and to imprisonment for 6 months, and
on conviction upon indictment to a fine of any amount and to imprisonment for
12 months. (Added 56 of 1994 s. 2)