A84
Ord. No. 16/87
Bomb hoaxes.
1977 c. 45,
s. 51.
PUBLIC ORDER (AMENDMENT)
(2) It shall be a defence to a charge under subsectio for the person charged to prove that he had reasonable grounds for believing that the news to which the charge relates was true.
(3) No prosecution for an offence under this section shall be commenced without the consent of the Attorney General.
28. (1) Any person who-
(a) places any article or substance in any place what-
ever; or
(b) dispatches any article or substance by post, rail, sea, air or any other means whatever of sending things from one place to another,
with the intention of inducing some other person to believe that it is likely to explode or ignite and thereby cause personal injury or damage to property shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who communicates any information which he knows or believes to be false to another person with the intention of inducing him or any other person to believe that a bomb or other article, substance or thing liable to explode or ignite is present in any place or location whatever shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) For a person to be guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (2) it shall not be necessary for him to have any particular person in mind as the person in whom he intends to induce the belief mentioned in those subsections.
(4) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable
(a)
on summary conviction, to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 3 years; and
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of $150,000
and to imprisonment for 5 years.
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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 11th day of March
1987.
LAW Kam-sang,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
LAW Kam-sang,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.