Protection of informers.
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(e) the material, colour and markings of packages, bottles
and other containers for acetylating substances;
() generally for the better carrying out of the provisions and
purposes of this Ordinance,
(2) Regulations under this section may provide that a con- travention of any such regulations shall be an offence and shall be punishable on conviction by a fine not exceeding $10,000 and imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.
17, (1) Save as provided in subsection (2)—
(a) no information for an offence under this Ordinance shall be admitted in evidence in any civil or criminal proceed. ing: and
(3) no witness in any civil or criminal proceedings shall be
obliged-
(i) to disclose the name or address of any informer who has given information to the Preventive Service or police with respect to an offence under this Ordinance or of any person who has assisted the police in any way with respect to such an offence; or
(ii) to answer any question if the answer thereto would lead, or could tend to lead, to discovery of the name or address of such informer or person,
it, in either case, such informer or person is not himself a witness in such proceeding, and, if any books, docu- ments or papers which are in evidence or liable to inspec tion in any civil or criminal proceedings contain an entry in which any such informer or person is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the court shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer or such other person from discovery.
(2) If in any proceedings before a court for an offence under this Ordinance the court, after full inquiry into the case, is satisfied that an informer wilfully made a material statement which he knew or believed to be false or did not believe to be true, or if in any other proceeding a court is of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without disclosure of the name of the informer or a person who has assisted the Preventive Service or police, the court may permit inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer or such person.
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18. Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Director relat- Appeals to
ing to-
(a) the issue of a licence or permit;
(b) the refusal to issue a licence or permit;
(c) the cancellation or suspension of a licence or permit; (d) the cancellation or variation of any condition or the specification of a new condition in any licence or permil may, within 21 days from the date when he was informed of the decision or within such further period as the Governor may allow in any particular case, appeal by way of petition to the Governor is Council.
the Governor in Council.
19. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be taken as affecting the Saving application to any acetylating substance of any of the provisions
of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance which may be applicable (p. 295) thereto.
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SCHEDULE
ACETYLATING SUBSTANCES
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Other names by which substance is known
Acetyluring substance
1.
Acetic anhydride
Acetic oxide
Acetyl oxide
Etbandic anhydride
1
Acetyl chloride
Ethanoyl chlorido
Acetyl bromide
Ethanoyl bromide
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 22nd of January, 1975.
day
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.
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