Hong Kong Ordinances

ELECTIONS (CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL CONDUCT) ORDINANCE - SECT 13

Corrupt conduct to use or threaten to use force or duress against electors

(1) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person-

   (a)  uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against
        another person to induce the other person to vote at the election, or
        to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular
        candidates; or

   (b)  uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against
        another person because the other person voted at the election, or
        voted at the election for a particular candidate or particular
        candidates; or

   (c)  uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against
        another person to induce the other person to get a third person to
        vote at the election, or to vote at the election for a particular
        candidate or particular candidates.

(2) A person also engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person-

   (a)  uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against
        another person to induce the other person not to vote at the election,
        or not to vote at the election for a particular candidate or
        particular candidates; or

   (b)  uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against
        another person because the other person refrained from voting at the
        election, or refrained from voting at the election for a particular
        candidate or particular candidates; or

   (c)  uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against
        another person to get the other person to induce a third person not to
        vote at the election, or not to vote at the election for a particular
        candidate or particular candidates; or

   (d)  by abduction, prevents an elector from voting at the election.

(3) A person is taken to have engaged in corrupt conduct of a kind referred to
in subsection (1) or (2) even though the conduct was engaged in by another
person, but only if the other person was acting with the person's authority.
That authority may be conferred expressly or by implication.

(4) A corporate elector does not contravene this section only because it has
instructed its authorized representative to cast its vote, or not to cast its
vote, at an election for a particular candidate or particular candidates.