Hong Kong Ordinances

TOYS AND CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS SAFETY ORDINANCE - SECT 2

Interpretation

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 65 of 2000 s. 3

"advertise" (宣傳)

"authorized officer" (獲授權人員)

"children's product" (兒童產品)

"Commissioner" (關長)

"goods" (貨物)

"goods in transit" (過境貨物)

"notice to warn" (警告通知)

"premises" (房產)

"prohibition notice" (禁制通知書)

"recall notice" (收回通知書)

"record" (紀錄) or "document" (文件)

"standards institution" (標準協會)

"supply" (供應) "toy" (玩具)

"transhipment" (轉運) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise
requires-

"advertise" (宣傳) includes issuing a catalogue, circular or price list that
is intended for the general public;

"authorized officer" (獲授權人員) means an officer specified in Schedule
1 to the Customs and Excise Service Ordinance ( Cap 342) or an officer
appointed by the Commissioner under section 19 to be an authorized officer;

"children's product" (兒童產品) means a product listed in the Schedule
and, for the purposes of Parts IV to IX, includes a product designated by
regulation to be a children's product;

"Commissioner" (關長) means the Commissioner of Customs and Excise, any
Deputy or Assistant Commissioner of Customs and Excise and any public officer
designated in writing by the Commissioner of Customs and Excise to exercise
his powers under this Ordinance; (Amended 65 of 2000 s. 3)

"goods" (貨物) means toys or children's products;

"goods in transit" (過境貨物) means goods that are brought into Hong Kong
solely for the purpose of taking them out of Hong Kong and that remain at all
times on the vessel or aircraft that brought them into Hong Kong; (Amended 44
of 1996 s. 2)

"notice to warn" (警告通知) means a notice served under section 10(1);

"premises" (房產) includes any place and any stall, whether permanent or
temporary in nature;

"prohibition notice" (禁制通知書) means a notice served under
section 11(1);

"recall notice" (收回通知書) means a notice served under section 12(1);

"record" (紀錄) or "document" (文件) includes-

   (a)  a book, voucher, receipt or data material, or information which is
        recorded in a non-legible form but is capable of being reproduced in a
        legible form; and

   (b)  any document, disc, tape, sound track or other device in which sounds
        or other data (not being visual images) are embodied so as to be
        capable (with or without the aid of other equipment) of being
        reproduced and any film (including a microfilm), tape or other device
        in which visual images are embodied so as to be capable (as aforesaid)
        of being reproduced;

"standards institution" (標準協會) includes-

   (a)  the British Standards Institution (英國標準協會); or

   (b)  any other standards body defined in a guide entitled the ISO/IEC Guide
        2:1991 jointly published by the International Organization for
        Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission;
        (Added 16 of 1997 s. 2)

"supply" (供應) means-

   (a)  to sell or hire out;

   (b)  to offer, have in possession, or expose for sale or for hiring out;

   (c)  to exchange or dispose of for any consideration;

   (d)  to transmit, convey or deliver in pursuance of-

        (i)    a sale;

        (ii)   a hiring out; or

        (iii)  an exchange or disposal for any consideration; or

   (e)  for commercial purposes, to give goods as a prize or to make a gift of
        the goods; "toy" (玩具) means a product or material that is designed
        or clearly intended for use in play by a child;

"transhipment" (轉運) means the importation of an article that is consigned
on a through bill of lading or a through air waybill from a place outside Hong
Kong to another place outside Hong Kong and is or is to be removed from the
vessel, vehicle or aircraft in which it was imported and either returned to
the same vessel, vehicle or aircraft or transferred to another vessel, vehicle
or aircraft before being exported, whether it is or is to be transferred
directly between such vessels, vehicles or aircraft or whether it is to be
landed in Hong Kong after its importation and stored, pending exportation.
(Enacted 1992)