Hong Kong Ordinances

OCCUPATIONAL DEAFNESS (COMPENSATION) ORDINANCE - SECT 30

Offence

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

PART IX

MISCELLANEOUS

(1) Any person who in connection with an application for compensation or
reimbursement of expenses by himself or any other person provides any document
or makes any statement or certification of facts which is false in a material
particular and which- (Amended 16 of 2003 s. 14)

   (a)  he knows to be false in such particular; or

   (b)  he has no reasonable ground to believe to be true in such particular,
        commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for 1
        year and a fine at level 5.

(2) Where a member of a professional body is alleged to have committed an
offence under subsection (1), the Board may refer the allegation to that
professional body. (Enacted 1995)