or by or through that outer parocipant;
'd" includes refund, commission, discount or allowance but does not slude payment for sales demonstration equipment and materiale |pplied at not more than their fair market value and not resold.
Any person who knowingly promotes a pyramid selling scheme its an offence and is liable on conviction upon indictment to a fine |0,000 and to imprisonment for 3 years.
(1) Where an offence under this Ordinance has been committed body corporate or member of a body unincorporate, any person who
time of the offence—
ja the case of a body corporate, was a director, secretly, principal officer or manager of that body corporate; or
in the case of a member of a body unincorporate, was a partne or office balder in, or a member or manager of that body unincorporate,
bo, in either case, was acting or purporting to act in any nyti ity commits a like offence,
Where say person referred to in subsection (1) is charged with fence under this Ordinance it shall be a defence for him to prot the offence was committed without hii coostal or connivance and se exercised such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of be functions o all other circumstances.
(1) Notwithstanding any provision in any other Ordinance, where Bon is convicted of an offence under this Ordinance the court may, lo on to passing such sentence as may otherwise be passed by law, the person so convicted to pay to any person who has suffered ial loss resulting from that offence, such amount as compensation
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HONG KONG
No. 26 of 1980
An Ordinance to amend the Crimes Ordinance.
I aseot.
Govenan
26 June 1980.
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(27 June 1980]
Enacted by the Govenor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
This Ordinance may be cited as the Crimes (Amendment) Short dik. Ordinance 1980.
1. Section 136 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) in subsection (1)—–—
() by deleting "a person is accused of a rape offence or indecent amault" and "substituting the following-
"an allegation is made that a rape offence or an indecent assault has been committed"; and
() by deleting "accusation" and substituting the following-
"allegation";
(b) by inserting after subsection (3) the following-
"(A) A direction that subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to auch complaint or such matter as is specified in the direction may be given, where it is necessary for the purpose of seeking information which may lead to the arrest
Amendapen of
seedon 156,
(Cap. 200.1