Enclosure No. 4

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INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION

(AMENDMENT) BILL

A BILL

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Amend the Independent Commission Against Corruption Ordinance.

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Independent Commission Short title. Against Corruption (Amendment) Ordinance 1980.

2.

Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is amended—

Amendment of section 10.

(a) in subsection (1) by inserting after "Ordinance" in the third (Cap. 204.)

place where it occurs the following-

"or, being a Crown servant, is guilty of an offence of blackmail committed by or through the misuse of office"; and

(b) in subsection (5)—

(Cap. 210.)

(Cap. 210.)

3.

(i) by inserting after paragraph (a) the following-

"(aa) the offence of theft under section 9 of the Theft

Ordinance;";

(ii) by inserting after paragraph (d) the following-

"(dd) the offence of false accounting under section 19 of the

Theft Ordinance;"; and

(iii) by deleting paragraphs (f) and (g) and substituting the following-

"(f) the offence of conspiracy to defraud and the offence of conspiracy to commit any of the offences referred to in paragraph (a), (aa), (b), (c), (d), (dd) or (e);

(g) an attempt to commit any offence referred to in para- graph (a), (aa), (b), (c), (d), (dd) or (e) or the offence of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring any offence so referred to.".

Section 10A of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by deleting "an assistant director of the Commission" wherever those words occur and substituting in each place the following—

"an officer of the rank of Senior Commission Against Corrup- tion Officer or above"; and

(b) in subsection (3)(a) by deleting "such an assistant director" and

substituting the following-

"such an officer".

4. Section 10C(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by deleting the full stop at the end of paragraph (c) and sub-

stituting a semicolon; and

(b) by inserting after paragraph (c) the following—

"(d) detain any person found in any premises or place which he is empowered by this Ordinance to search until such premises or place have or has been searched.".

Amendment of section 10A.

Amendment of section 10C.

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