Hong Kong Ordinances

TRADE UNIONS ORDINANCE - SECT 46

Peaceful picketing

PART VII

PICKETING, INTIMIDATION AND CONSPIRACY

Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for one or more
persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a registered trade union
or of an individual employer or firm, in contemplation or furtherance of a
trade dispute, to attend at or near a place where a person works or carries on
business, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or
communicating information or of peacefully persuading any person to work or
abstain from working: Provided that it shall not be lawful if they so attend
in such numbers, or otherwise in such manner, as to be calculated to
intimidate any person in that place, or to obstruct the approach thereto or
egress therefrom, or to lead to a breach of the peace, and any person who acts
in contravention of this proviso shall be guilty of an offence and shall be
liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1000 and to imprisonment for 6
months. (Amended 15 of 1971 s.21)