Hong Kong Ordinances

UNSOLICITED ELECTRONIC MESSAGES ORDINANCE - SECT 54

Offences relating to appeals

(1) In relation to an appeal, a person who, without reasonable excuse, refuses
or fails—

   (a)  to attend and give evidence when required to do so by the
        Appeal Board;

   (b)  to answer truthfully and completely questions put to him by the
        Appeal Board; or

   (c)  to produce any document that he is required by the Appeal Board to
        produce, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a
        fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

(2) A person who publishes or otherwise discloses any material in
contravention of—

   (a)  an order under section 51(1)(g) (powers of Appeal Board); or

   (b)  an order under section 51(1)(h) (powers of Appeal Board), commits an
        offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 5 and
        to imprisonment for 2 years.

(3) It is a defence to a charge for an offence under subsection

(2)(b) for the person charged to prove that he did not know and had no reason
for knowing that the Appeal Board had made an order under section  51 (1)(h)
(powers of Appeal Board) prohibiting the publication or other disclosure of
the material concerned.