Hong Kong Ordinances

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (POWERS AND PRIVILEGES) ORDINANCE - SECT 19

Interference with members, officers or witnesses

Any person who-

   (a)  assaults, obstructs or molests any member going to, being within or
        going from the precincts of the Chamber, or endeavours to compel any
        member by force or menace to declare himself in favour of or against
        any motion or matter pending before the Council or a committee; or

   (b)  assaults, interferes with, molests, resists or obstructs any
        officer of the Council while in the execution of his duty; or

   (c)  tampers with, deters, threatens, molests or in any way unduly
        influences any witness in regard to any evidence to be given by him
        before the Council or a committee; or

   (d)  threatens, molests or in any way punishes or injures or attempts to
        punish or injure any person for having given evidence before the
        Council or a committee or on account of any evidence which he has
        given before the Council or a committee, commits an offence and is
        liable to a fine of $10000 and to imprisonment for 12 months. (Enacted
        1985)