Hong Kong Ordinances

FAMILY STATUS DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE - SECT 29

Extent of Part IV

Extent

(1) Section 19(1)-

   (a)  shall not apply to goods, facilities or services outside Hong Kong
        except as provided in subsections (2) and (3); and

   (b)  shall not apply to facilities by way of banking or insurance or for
        grants, loans, credit or finance, where the facilities are for a
        purpose to be carried out, or in connection with risks wholly or
        mainly arising, outside Hong Kong.

(2) Section 19(1) applies to the provision of facilities for travel outside
Hong Kong where the refusal or omission occurs in Hong Kong or on a ship,
aircraft or dynamically supported craft referred to in subsection

(3).

(3) Section 19(1) applies on or in relation to-

   (a)  any ship registered in Hong Kong;

   (b)  any aircraft or dynamically supported craft registered in Hong Kong
        and operated by a person who has his principal place of business, or
        is ordinarily resident, in Hong Kong; or

   (c)  any ship, aircraft or dynamically supported craft belonging to or
        possessed by the Government, even if the ship, aircraft or
        dynamically supported craft is outside Hong Kong.

(4) This section shall not render unlawful an act done in or over a place
outside Hong Kong, or in or over that place's territorial waters, if any, for
the purpose of complying with the laws of that place.

(5) Section 18 shall not apply to benefits, facilities or services outside
Hong Kong except-

   (a)  travel on a ship registered in Hong Kong;

   (b)  benefits, facilities or services provided on a ship so registered.