### Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Ordinance 《立法會(權力及特權)條例》

15. Determination of questions relating to evidence and production of documents before the Council or committee
Where at any time any question arises in the Council or a committee in regard to—
(a) the right or power of the Council or a committee to hear, admit or receive oral evidence; or
(b) the right or power of the Council or a committee to peruse or examine any paper, book, record or document or to order, direct or call upon any person to produce any paper, book, record or document before the Council or committee; or
(c) the right or privilege of any person (including a member of the Council or committee) to refuse to produce any paper, book, record or document or to lay any paper, book, record or document before the Council or committee,
that question may, subject to this Ordinance and except in so far as express provision is made therein for the determination of that question, be determined in accordance with the usage and practice of the Council which applied prior to the commencement of this Ordinance or applies thereafter by virtue of any resolution of the Council.

16. Limitation on privilege against incrimination of self or spouse
(1) In any proceedings in the Council or a committee, any person lawfully ordered to attend to give evidence or to produce any paper, book, record or document before the Council or committee shall not, unless excused under section 13, be excused—
(a) from answering any relevant question put to that person in the proceedings or producing any such paper, book, record or document; or
(b) from complying with any order made in or in connexion with the proceedings,
on the ground that to do so may tend to expose that person, or the wife or husband of that person, to proceedings for an offence or for the recovery of a penalty.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), no statement or admission made by a person—
(a) in answering a question put to him in any proceedings to which subsection (1) applies; or
(b) in complying with any order made in any such proceedings,
shall, in proceedings for any offence or for the recovery of any penalty, be admissible in evidence against that person or (unless they married after the making of the statement or admission) against the wife or husband of that person.
(3) Nothing in subsection (2) shall render any statement or admission made by a person as there mentioned inadmissible in evidence against that person in proceedings for an offence under section 32 (which relates to false statements on oath made otherwise than in a judicial proceeding) or section 36 (which relates to false statutory declarations and other false statements without oath) of the Crimes Ordinance (Cap. 200).

### Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Ordinance 《立法會(權力及特權)條例》

17. Contempts
Any person who—
(a) disobeys any lawful order made by the Council or a committee requiring him to attend or produce any papers, books, documents or records before the Council or committee, unless such attendance or production is excused under section 13; or
(b) refuses to be examined before, or to answer any lawful and relevant question put by, the Council or a committee during the course of any examination, unless such refusal is excused under section 13; or
(c) creates or joins in any disturbance which interrupts or is likely to interrupt the proceedings of the Council or a committee while the Council or such committee is sitting,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 12 months, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine of $2,000 for each day on which the offence continues.
(Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)

18. False evidence and deception
(1) Any person who before the Council or a committee intentionally gives a false answer to any question material to the subject of inquiry which may be put to him during the course of any examination commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) Any person who presents to the Council or a committee any false, untrue, fabricated or falsified document with intent to deceive the Council or such committee, unless such presentation constitutes an offence under subsection (1), commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 12 months.
(Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)

19. Interference with members, officers or witnesses
Any person who—
(a) assaults, obstructs or molests any member going to, being within or going from the precincts of the Chamber, or endeavours to compel any member by force or menace to declare himself in favour of or against any motion or matter pending before the Council or a committee; or
(b) assaults, interferes with, molests, resists or obstructs any officer of the Council while in the execution of his duty; or
(c) tampers with, deters, threatens, molests or in any way unduly influences any witness in regard to any evidence to be given by him before the Council or a committee; or
(d) threatens, molests or in any way punishes or injures or attempts to punish or injure any person for having given evidence before the Council or a committee or on account of any evidence which he has given before the Council or a committee,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 12 months.
(Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)

### Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Ordinance 《立法會(權力及特權)條例》

20. Offences by persons entering or remaining in precincts of Chamber
Any person, other than a member or officer of the Council, who—
(a) enters or attempts to enter the Chamber or the precincts of the Chamber in contravention of any of the Rules of Procedure or any resolution under section 8(2); or (Amended 71 of 2000 s. 3)
(b) contravenes any administrative instructions issued under section 8(3), or any direction given thereunder, regulating the admittance of persons to or the conduct of persons within the Chamber or the precincts of the Chamber,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
(Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)

20A. Members not entitled to remuneration and allowance during suspension
(1) This section applies to a member who is suspended under the Rules of Procedure from the service of the Council for engaging in grossly disorderly conduct.
(2) The member is not entitled to receive any remuneration or allowance to which the member is, apart from this section, entitled in respect of the period of suspension, but the member is entitled to be reimbursed the operating expenses incurred by the member in respect of that period.
(Added 27 of 2021 s. 6)

20B. Members liable to financial penalty if absence causes adjournment of Council
(1) This section applies in relation to a member if—
(a) the member is absent from a sitting of the Council;
(b) the Council is adjourned under the Rules of Procedure because a quorum is not present at that sitting; and
(c) the President is not satisfied that there is a valid reason for the member’s absence.
(2) The member is liable to pay a financial penalty on each occasion that the Council is so adjourned.
(3) The financial penalty is to be—
(a) determined by the Council according to the Rules of Procedure; and
(b) deducted from the member’s remuneration to which the member is entitled.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), it does not matter whether the Council adjourned is subsequently resumed for continuation of any unfinished business under the Rules of Procedure.
(Added 27 of 2021 s. 6)