Offences relating to renunciation applications
SOCIETIES (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2)
Ord. No. 58/88
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(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(3) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the disclosure of information required to be disclosed under this Ordinance or for instituting and prosecuting criminal proceedings under section 26M.
26M. (1) Any person who-
(a) in an application made under section 26D(1); or
(b) in an examination by the Tribunal,
makes a statement which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, or recklessly makes a false statement is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) Any person who, in proceedings before the Tri- bunal, impersonates another person is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to imprison- ment for 2 years.
(3) If a person is convicted of an offence under subsec- tion (1) or (2)—
(a) any renunciation is void; and
(b) any proceedings stayed by the issue of a certificate
by the Tribunal may continue.
(4) If no further step is taken in proceedings stayed by a certificate issued by the Tribunal for a period of 5 years, these proceedings shall cease with neither a conviction nor acquittal being recorded.".
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 6th day of July 1988.
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.