Amendment of section 16.
Addition of new section 16A.
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4. Section 16 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after subsection (1), the following new subsection—
"(1A) A Disciplinary Committee shall conduct an inquiry in accordance with the prescribed procedure.”.
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The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section to the following new section-
"Powers of
16A. (1) For the purposes of an inquiry under Disciplinary section 16 the Disciplinary Committee may, subject
to subsection (4)—–
Committee
at inquiries.
(a) hear and examine witnesses on oath;
(b) summon any person to attend the inquiry 10 give evidence or produce any document or other thing in his possession and examine him as a witness or require him to produce any document or other thing in his posses- sion.
(2) A summons under subsection (1) shall be in the prescribed form and shall be signed by the chairman.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), any person who- (a) being summoned under subsection (1) to attend any inquiry to give evidence or to produce any document or other thing in bis possession, refuses or neglects to do so; or (b) being examined under subsection (1) as a witness by or before the Disciplinary Com- mittee, refuses or neglects to answer any question put to him by or with the concur- rence of the Disciplinary Committee, or to produce any document or other thing in his possession when required to do so,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months,
(4) Any person who appears as a witness before the Disciplinary Committee shall be entitled to the same privileges in respect of the giving of evidence and the production of any document and other thing as he would be entitled to if appearing as a witness in civil proceedings before the Supreme Court.
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(5) Any person who-
(a) behaves in an insulting manner or uses any threatening or insulting expression to or in the presence of the Disciplinary Committee;
or
(6) wilfully disrupts the proceedings of the
Disciplinary Committee,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months.".
Section 29 of the principal Ordinance is amended— (4) by inserting after paragraph (b) the following new para-
graph- "(be) prescribing the procedure to be followed in inquiries held by the Disciplinary Committee under the provisions of section 16;”; and
(6) in paragraph (c) by inserting after "selling," the follow.
ing
"purchasing."
7. Section 34 of the principal Ordinance is amended---- (c) by deleting "one thousand dollars" and substituting the
following-
"ten thousand dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months":
(8) by deleting "one hundred" and substituting the follow-
ing--
"one thousand".
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 24th day of May, 1972.
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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.
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
Amendment of section 29.
Amendment of section 34.