Company: LHI
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0001213900-25-006939
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Company: Living Homeopathy International Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 149
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 false trade description to any goods or supply or offer to supply any goods to which a false trade is applied; or has in his possession for sale or for any purpose of trade or manufacture any goods to which a false trade description is applied.

Section 7A provides that a trader who applies a false trade description to a service supplied or offered to be supplied to a consumer, or supplies or offers to supply to a consumer a service to which a false trade description is applied, commits an offense.

Sections 13E, 13F, 13G, 13H and 13I provide that a trader who engages in relation to a consumer in a commercial practice that (a) is a misleading omission; or (b) is aggressive; (c) constitutes bait advertising; (d) constitutes a bait and switch; or (e) constitutes wrongly accepting payment for a product, commits an offense.

In accordance with section 18 of the Trade Descriptions Ordinance, a person who commits an offense under sections 7, 7A, 13E, 13F, 13G, 13H or 13I shall be subject, on conviction on indictment, to a fine of HKD500,000 and to imprisonment for five years, and on summary conviction, to a fine of HKD100,000 and to imprisonment for two years.

The Control of Exemption Clauses Ordinance (Chapter 71 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or the CECO

The CECO, which aims to limit the extent to which civil liability for breach of contract, or for negligence or other breach of duty, can be avoided by means of contract terms and otherwise, among others, provides that:

| (a) | under section 7, a person                                                                                                              
 cannot by reference to any contract term or to a notice given to persons generally or to particular persons exclude or restrict his    
 liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence and in the case of other loss or damage, a person cannot exclude      
 or restrict his liability for negligence except in so far as the term or notice satisfies the requirement of reasonableness;           |
| (b) | under section 8, as between                                                                                                            
 contracting parties where one of them deals as consumer or on the other’s written standard terms of business, as against that          
 party, the other cannot by reference to any contract term (i) when himself in breach of contract, exclude or restrict any liability    
 of his in respect of the breach, (ii)