Hong Kong Ordinances

AMUSEMENT GAME CENTRES ORDINANCE - SECT 22

Forfeiture

The court may, on the conviction of any person of an offence under section  4
or 19 relating to an amusement game centre, order the forfeiture of any
machine or device together with its contents and all related or ancillary
components including any cabinet or other casing in which it is housed, if
any, seized by a police officer or by any public officer authorized in writing
by the Commissioner in that behalf under section 17, being a machine or device
which was installed or placed in the amusement game  centre for the purposes
of amusement, recreation or entertainment, unless the owner of the
machine or device satisfies the court that there is special and exceptional
reason not to order forfeiture, such as that the machine or device had been
stolen and the theft reported to the police as soon as practicable; but
ownership of itself of a machine or device by a person other than the person
convicted or financial hardship to any person shall not be special and
exceptional reason. (Enacted 1993)