Hong Kong Regulations

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS (MARKETING) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 16

Offences and penalties

(1) Any person who contravenes regulation 4, 5(1), 9, 11(1) or 13 shall be
guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of two thousand dollars and
to imprisonment for one year. (G.N.A. 100 of 1962)

(2) Any person who-

   (a)  in contravention of a direction under regulation 14(1) brings any
        vegetables, or causes any vegetables to be brought, into a wholesale 
        vegetable market; or

   (b)  contravenes a requirement under regulation 14(2), shall be guilty of
        an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.
        (L.N. 126 of 1969)

(3) Any person who contravenes any condition to which a permit issued under
these regulations is subject shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months. (G.N.A.
100 of 1962)

(4) Any person who makes any statement or furnishes any information to the
Director or a person acting on his behalf or to a market manager under the
provisions of these regulations, whether such statement or information be
verbal or in writing, which is false in any material particular and which he
either knows or has reason to believe is false, shall be guilty of an offence
and shall be liable to a fine of two thousand dollars and imprisonment for one
year.

(5) In any proceedings under these regulations the burden of proving that any
vegetables have been purchased at a wholesale vegetable  market shall lie upon
the person accused. (G.N.A. 100 of 1962)