Hong Kong Ordinances

ELECTRICITY ORDINANCE - SECT 56

Major offences

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) A person who contravenes section 8(1), 12(1), 19(1) or (2), 20(1) or (3),
29(2), 31(1) or (2), 34(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) or (7) or 35(1) commits an
offence. (Amended 12 of 1997 s. 9)

(2) A person who, without authorization from the supplier, the Director or the
appeal board reconnects or causes or knowingly allows the reconnection of an
electrical installation disconnected under section  16 (1), 17(1) or 18(1)
commits an offence.

(3) A person who connects or causes or knowingly allows a person to connect an
electrical installation to another person's electrical  installation without
his consent, commits an offence.

(4) A person who intentionally interferes with an electricity  supplier's
electrical installation without the supplier's consent, commits an offence.

(5) An owner who fails to comply with a condition of an exemption made under
section 9 commits an offence.

(6) An electricity supplier who fails to comply with a notice of the Director
under section 11(2) commits an offence.

(7) A person who without reasonable excuse-

   (a)  fails to attend when required; or

   (b)  refuses to give or withholds evidence or documents required, under
        section 28, 41(1)(a) or (b), 42(4) or 47(1)(a) or (b) commits an
        offence.

(8) Where a corporation commits an offence under this Ordinance, each director
and officer of the corporation is guilty of the offence unless he proves that
the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he
exercised all such due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as
he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in
that capacity and to all the circumstances.

(9) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable to a fine of
$50000 on a first conviction and a fine of $100000 on a subsequent conviction
for the same offence and in either case is liable to imprisonment for 6
months. (Enacted 1990)