Hong Kong Ordinances

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ORDINANCE - SECT 13

Liability of proprietor

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Except as may be otherwise provided by regulations made under this
Ordinance, the proprietor of every industrial undertaking in or in respect of
which any offence against this Ordinance has been committed shall be guilty of
a like offence, and shall be liable to the penalty prescribed for such
offence.

(2) It shall be no defence to a prosecution of the proprietor of an
industrial undertaking for an offence against this Ordinance that the offence
was committed without his knowledge or consent or that the actual offender has
not been convicted of the offence.

(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to an offence under section  6B or 6BA
(15). (Added 71 of 1989 s. 9. Amended 53 of 1999 s. 7)