Hong Kong Ordinances

BOILERS AND PRESSURE VESSELS ORDINANCE - SECT 55

Miscellaneous offences and penalties therefor

(1) Any person who-

   (a)  forges a certificate of fitness or a certificate of competency or any
        notice or form delivered or sent to the Authority or an authorized 
        officer pursuant to, or for the purposes of, this Ordinance or any
        other document required by, under or for the purposes of this
        Ordinance; (Amended 87 of 1988 s. 24)

   (b)  makes or causes to be made in a certificate of fitness or in any such
        notice, form or document any statement or entry that is false in a
        material particular;

   (c)  gives or signs a certificate of fitness or any such notice, form or
        document knowing it to be false in a material particular;

   (d)  utters or makes use of a certificate of fitness or a
        certificate of competency or any such notice, form or document knowing
        the same to be forged or to be false in a material particular;

   (e)  utters or makes use of as applying to a boiler or pressure  vessel a
        certificate of fitness that to his knowledge does not so apply;

   (f)  falsely certifies that he is satisfied that a pressurized fuel 
        container is in safe working order;

   (g)  applies to a pressurized fuel container a mark that to his knowledge
        indicates falsely the date on which the pressurized fuel  container
        was examined in accordance with this Ordinance or that to his
        knowledge indicates falsely that the pressurized fuel container has
        been examined in accordance with this Ordinance;

   (h)  utters or makes use of as applying to any person a certificate 
        of competency that to his knowledge does not so apply;

   (i)  personates the person named in a certificate of competency; or

   (j)  wilfully obstructs or delays the Authority or an authorized officer in
        the exercise of any power conferred upon him by this Ordinance,
        (Amended 11 of 1965 s. 3; 18 of 1982 s. 11; 87 of 1988 s. 24) shall be
        guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a
        fine of $10000 and to imprisonment for 12 months. (Amended 18 of 1982
        s. 11; 87 of 1988 ss. 31 & 33)

(2) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a
requirement made by the Authority or an authorized officer in the exercise of
a power in that behalf conferred by this Ordinance shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $10000.
(Amended 11 of 1965 s. 3; 18 of 1982 s. 11; 87 of 1988 s. 24)