1989 Ed.]
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45. Affiliation outside Hong Kong
(1) Except with the consent of the Governor, no registered trade union shall be a member of any kind of any trade union or other organization of what nature or kind soever that is established outside Hong Kong. Such consent, if given, may be withdrawn at the discretion of the Governor. (Amended 72 of 1973 s. 2; 47 of 1988 s. 3)
(2) A registered trade union that contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500.
PART VII
PICKETING, INTIMIDATION AND CONSPIRACY
46. Peaceful picketing
Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a registered trade union or of an individual employer or firm, in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a place where a person works or carries on business, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working:
Provided that it shall not be lawful if they so attend in such numbers, or otherwise in such manner, as to be calculated to intimidate any person in that place, or to obstruct the approach thereto or egress therefrom, or to lead to a breach of the peace, and any person who acts in contravention of this proviso shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
47. Intimidation and annoyance
(Amended 15 of 1971 s. 21)
(1) Every person who, with a view to compelling any person to abstain from doing or to do any act that such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority-
(a) uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property; or
(b) persistently follows such other person about from place to place; or
(c) hides any tools, clothes or other property owned or used by such other person, or deprives him of the same or hinders him in the use thereof; or
(d) watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be or the approach to such house or place; or
1989 Ed.]
Trade Unions
1
[CAP. 332
31
7
45. Affiliation outside Hong Kong
(1) Except with the consent of the Governor, no registered trade union shall be a member of any kind of any trade union or other organization of what nature or kind soever that is established outside Hong Kong. Such consent, if given, may be withdrawn at the discretion of the Governor. (Amended 72 of 1973 s. 2; 47 of 1988 s. 3)
(2) A registered trade union that contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500.
PART VII
PICKETING, INTIMIDATION AND CONSPIRACY
46. Peaceful picketing
Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a registered trade union or of an individual employer or firm, in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a place where a person works or carries on business, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working:
Provided that it shall not be lawful if they so attend in such numbers, or otherwise in such manner, as to be calculated to intimidate any person in that place, or to obstruct the approach thereto or egress therefrom, or to lead to a breach of the peace, and any person who acts in contravention of this proviso shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
47. Intimidation and annoyance
(Amended 15 of 1971 s. 21)
(1) Every person who, with a view to compelling any person to abstain from doing or to do any act that such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority-
(a) uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or
children, or injures his property; or
(b) persistently follows such other person about from place to place;
or
(c) hides any tools, clothes or other property owned or used by such other person, or deprives him of the same or hinders him in the use thereof; or
(d) watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be or the approach to such house or place; or
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