Hong Kong Ordinances

CONTROL OF OBSCENE AND INDECENT ARTICLES ORDINANCE - SECT 23

Prohibition on display of indecent matter

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) If any indecent matter is publicly displayed the person making the display
and any person causing or permitting the display to be made, whether or not he
knows that the matter is indecent, commits an offence and is liable to a fine
of $400000 and to imprisonment for 12 months on his first conviction, and to a
fine of $800000 and to imprisonment for 12 months on a second or subsequent
conviction. (Amended 73 of 1995 s. 7)

(2) Nothing in this section shall apply in relation to any matter-

   (a)  included in a television programme service provided by a company
        licensed under the Broadcasting Ordinance ( Cap 562); or (Replaced 48
        of 2000 s. 44)

   (b)  included in the display of an article in a bona fide art gallery or
        museum and visible only from within that gallery or museum. [cf. 1981
        c. 42 s. 1 U.K.] (Enacted 1987)