Hong Kong Regulations

PRISON RULES - RULE 51

Persons imprisoned on default of payment

A person committed to prison in default of the payment of a sum which in
pursuance of any conviction or order he is required to pay shall be allowed to
have an interview with his friends on a week-day at any reasonable hour, or to
communicate by letter with them for the purpose of providing for a payment
which would procure his release from prison, and every such prisoner shall on
his admission be informed of this rule.