Hong Kong Ordinances

TOYS AND CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS SAFETY ORDINANCE - SECT 22

Power to obtain information

(1) Where, in the opinion of the Commissioner, a person possesses information
that the Commissioner needs to assist him in deciding whether to serve, vary
or revoke-

   (a)  a notice to warn;

   (b)  a prohibition notice; or

   (c)  a recall notice, he may serve on that person a notice under this
        section.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a notice may require a person-

   (a)  to furnish to the Commissioner, within a period specified in the
        notice, the information specified; and

   (b)  to produce records specified in the notice at a time and place
        specified and to permit a person appointed by the Commissioner to take
        copies of the records at that time and place.

(3) A person who-

   (a)  fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a notice served on
        him under this section;

   (b)  furnishes information which he knows is false in a material
        particular; or

   (c)  recklessly furnishes information which is false in a material
        particular, commits an offence. (Enacted 1992)