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Ord. No. 15/87

Consequential amendment. (Cap. 371.)

CONTROL OF PUBLICATIONS CONSOLIDATION (AMENDMENT)

19. Section 2 of the Smoking (Public Health) Ordinance is amended in the definition of ““newspaper”, “local newspaper" and "printed docu- ment" " by deleting "Control of Publications Consolidation" and substitut- ing the following-

"Registration of Local Newspapers".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 11th day of March

1987.

LAW Kam-sang, Clerk to the Legislative Council.

PUBLIC ORDER (AMENDMENT)

Ord. No. 16/87

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HONG KONG

L.S.

No. 16 OF 1987

I assent.

David AKERS-JONES,

Acting Governor.

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.

12 March 1987

An Ordinance to amend the Public Order Ordinance.

[13 March 1987]

LAW Kam-sang,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

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 Public Order (Amendment) Short title. Ordinance 1987.

2. Part V of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the Repeal and following-

replacement of Part V.

(Cap. 245.)

False news.

"PART V

FALSE NEWS AND BOMB HOAXES

27. (1) Any person who publishes false news which is likely to cause alarm to the public or a section thereof or disturb public order shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable-

(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of $100,000

and to imprisonment for 2 years; and

(b) on summary conviction, to a fine of $30,000 and to

imprisonment for 6 months.