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HONG KONG

No. 45 or 1980

I assent,

MR.M

Governor,

10 July 1980.

Ao Ordinance to amend the Theft Ordinance.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Theft (Amendment) Ordin- Short une and ance 1990 and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by commuGRON.COL. the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

2. Section 18(2) of the principal Ordinance is amcoded by deleting Amesiment of paragraph (2).

Becelom 18.

Op. 210)

3. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 18 Addition of the following new section>

Pobialog

servloer by

docopiop. 1978 + $1.

18A. (1) A person who by any deception (whether or not such deception was the sole or main inducement) dis- honestly obtains services from another shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction upon indictment lo imprisonment for 10 years.

(2) It is an obtaining of services where the other is induced to confer a benefit by doing some act, or causing or permitting some act to be done, on the understanding that the benefit has been or will be paid for.

1500 500 Rions 184. 189 and

180.