1984 Ed.]
Smoking (Public Health)
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(7) The Secretary for Social Services may in writing exempt---
(a) the manager of any cinema, theatre or concert hall from compliance with subsection (1) in relation to any occasion;
(b) the manager of a public transport vehicle from compliance, either temporarily or permanently, with subsection (2) in relation to any vehicle or vessel.
(8) [Deleted, 73 of 1982, s. 39]
5. (1) The manager shall place in a prominent position in each no smoking area a sufficient number of signs in English and Chinese to indicate that smoking is prohibited in the area; such signs shall be of the prescribed description and shall be maintained by the manager in legible condition and good order.
(2) Where an area was designated as a no smoking area prior to the coming into operation of this Ordinance, the manager shall be deemed to have sufficiently complied with subsection (1) in relation to the description of the signs if the signs, being signs placed before such coming into operation, are in English and Chinese and are to the effect that smoking is prohibited.
6. (1) The-
(a) manager or any ticket collector or usher of any cinema, theatre or concert hall or such employee as the manager may authorize in that behalf;
(b) driver, conductor, inspector, ticket collector of any public transport vehicle or such other employee as the manager may authorize in that behalf;
(c) manager of a public lift or such employee as the manager may authorize in that behalf,
may require any person who smokes in a no smoking area to cease smoking forthwith, indicating the penalty therefor, and if he fails to do so, require him to give his name and address and to produce proof of identity.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with a requirement to cease smoking made under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be a trespasser and, if he is required to leave, or he is removed from, the building or vehicle in which the no smoking area is situated, he shall not be entitled to a refund of any admission fee or money paid by him for entry into the building or transport by the vehicle:
Provided that nothing in this section shall have the effect of deeming a person who smokes in a public lift to be a trespasser in the building (other than the lift) in which the lift is situated.
7. (1) Any person who contravenes section 3 commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000.
Display of signs in no smoking areas.
Powers exercisable in relation to persons smoking in no smoking area.
Offences under Part II.
1984 Ed.]
Smoking (Public Health)
[CAP. 371
5
(7) The Secretary for Social Services may in writing exempt---
(a) the manager of any cinema, theatre or concert hall from compliance with subsection (1) in relation to any occasion;
(b) the manager of a public transport vehicle from compliance, either temporarily or permanently, with subsection (2) in relation to any vehicle or vessel.
(8) [Deleted, 73 of 1982, s. 39]
5. (1) The manager shall place in a prominent position in each no smoking area a sufficient number of signs in English and Chinese to indicate that smoking is prohibited in the area; such signs shall be of the prescribed description and shall be maintained by the manager in legible condition and good order.
(2) Where an area was designated as a no smoking area prior to the coming into operation of this Ordinance, the manager shall be deemed to have sufficiently complied with subsection (1) in relation to the description of the signs if the signs, being signs placed before such coming into operation, are in English and Chinese and are to the effect that smoking is prohibited.
6. (1) The-
(a) manager or any ticket collector or usher of any cinema, theatre or concert hall or such employee as the manager may authorize in that behalf;
(b) driver, conductor, inspector, ticket collector of any public transport vehicle or such other employee as the manager may authorize in that behalf;
(c) manager of a public lift or such employee as the manager
may authorize in that behalf,
may require any person who smokes in a no smoking area to cease smoking forthwith, indicating the penalty therefor, and if he fails to do so, require him to give his name and address and to produce proof of identity.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with a requirement to cease smoking made under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be a trespasser and, if he is required to leave, or he is removed from, the building or vehicle in which the no smoking area is situated, he shall not be entitled to a refund of any admission fee or money paid by him for entry into the building or transport by the vehicle:
Provided that nothing in this section shall have the effect of deeming a person who smokes in a public lift to be a trespasser in the building (other than the lift) in which the lift is situated.
7. (1) Any person who contravenes section 3 commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000.
Display of signs in no smoking
areas.
Powers exercisable in relation to persons smoking in no smoking
area.
Offences under Part II.
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