Hong Kong Ordinances

PREVENTION OF COPYRIGHT PIRACY ORDINANCE - SECT 2

Interpretation

(Past version on 29/05/1998).

(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-

"authorized officer" (獲授權人員) means a public officer authorized by
the Commissioner under section 32;

"building" (建築物) includes any fixed structure, and a part of a building
or fixed structure; (Added 64 of 2000 s. 20)

"Commissioner" (關長) means the Commissioner of Customs and Excise and any
Deputy or Assistant Commissioner of Customs and Excise;

"court" (法院) includes a magistrate;

"licence" (特許) means a licence granted under section 5;

"licensed premises" (獲批特許的處所), in relation to a licensee, means
any premises specified in his licence in which optical discs are authorized to
be manufactured;

"licensee" (特許持有人) means a person to whom a licence is granted, and
includes any person to whom a licence is transferred in accordance with
section 8;

"manager" (管理人), in relation to a place of public entertainment, means
the person responsible for the control or management of that place at the
material time; (Added 64 of 2000 s. 20)

"manufacturer's code" (製造者代碼) means a manufacturer's code assigned
to a licensee under section 5(2)(a) or 8(3)(b);

"optical disc" (光碟) includes-

   (a)  any medium or device listed in Schedule 1; and

   (b)  any other medium or device on which data may be stored in digital form
        and read by means of a laser, and, for greater certainty, includes any
        such medium or device manufactured for any purpose and whether or not
        any data readable by means of a laser has been stored on it;

"performance" (表演) includes the meanings assigned to it by sections 27(2)
and 200(2) of the Copyright Ordinance ( Cap 528); (Added 64 of 2000 s. 20)

"place" (地方) means any area on land or water and includes any building,
structure or enclosure, whether moveable or not;

"place of public entertainment" (公眾娛樂場所) means any building that
is-

   (a)  used primarily as a cinema, theatre or concert hall for the showing or
        playing of films or the performance of literary, dramatic or musical
        works; and

   (b)  required to be licensed under the Places of Public 
        Entertainment Ordinance ( Cap 172), and includes any building that is
        used as described in paragraph (a) the management and control of which
        is vested in the Government, but does not include a foyer; (Added 64
        of 2000 s. 20)

"register" (登記冊) means the register kept by the Commissioner under
section  31 ;

"video recording equipment" (攝錄器材) means any device that is capable of
making a recording, on any medium, from which a moving image may by any means
be produced or that may enable such recordings to be made, either in the same
place at which it is used, or by electronic or other transmission at another
place. (Added 64 of 2000 s. 20)

(2) For the purpose of this Ordinance, a person manufactures optical discs in
Hong Kong if he owns, directs, manages or otherwise has control of a business
in Hong Kong which includes the manufacturing of optical discs in Hong Kong.

(3) All other words and expressions used in this Ordinance and defined in the
Copyright Ordinance ( Cap 528) have the same meaning as in that Ordinance.

"authorized officer" (獲授權人員)

"building" (建築物)

"Commissioner" (關長)

"court" (法院)

"licence" (特許)

"licensed premises" (獲批特許的處所)

"licensee" (特許持有人)

"manager" (管理人)

"manufacturer's code" (製造者代碼)

"optical disc" (光碟)

"performance" (表演)

"place" (地方)

"place of public entertainment" (公眾娛樂場所)

"register" (登記冊)

"video recording equipment" (攝錄器材)