Hong Kong Ordinances

SUMMARY OFFENCES ORDINANCE - SECT 20

Offences in connection with telephone calls or messages or telegrams

Any person who-

   (a)  sends any message by telegraph, telephone, wireless telegraphy or
        wireless telephony which is grossly offensive or of an indecent,
        obscene or menacing character; or

   (b)  sends by any such means any message, which he knows to be false, for
        the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to
        any other person; or

   (c)  persistently makes telephone calls without reasonable cause and for
        any such purpose as aforesaid, shall be liable to a fine of $1000 and
        to imprisonment for 2 months. (Added 36 of 1935 s. 2. Amended 90 of
        1991 s. 28) [cf. 1935 c. 15 s. 10(2) U.K.]