### Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance 《預防及控制疾病條例》

6. Escape from detention
(1) If a person who is detained under this Ordinance escapes, he may be arrested by—
(a) any public officer appointed under this Ordinance;
(b) any police officer; or
(c) any member of the Auxiliary Medical Service or Civil Aid Service,
and may be conveyed to the place from which he escaped or any other place authorized by a health officer and detained in that place.
(2) If a person who is detained under this Ordinance escapes or attempts to escape, he commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

7. Power to make regulations
(1) The Secretary for Health may make regulations (the regulation

8. Public health emergency regulation
(1) On any occasion which the Chief Executive in Council considers to be an occasion of a public health emergency, he may make regulations (the regulation

9. Measures applied in light of WHO’s temporary recommendations
(1) The Director may, for the purposes of preventing the introduction into, the spread in and the transmission from, Hong Kong of any disease, by order published in the Gazette, prescribe any measure to be applied in the light of any temporary recommendation made by WHO pursuant to articles 15, 17 and 18 of the International Health Regulations.
(2) An order under subsection (1) is subsidiary legislation.

10. Police to furnish assistance
The Commissioner of Police shall furnish such police assistance as any health officer may require for the purpose of enabling the health officer to—
(a) exercise the powers conferred on the health officer by this Ordinance; and
(b) deal with vessels and aircraft and persons and things on board the vessels and aircraft in the manner prescribed by this Ordinance.

11. Obstruction of health officers, etc.
(1) A person shall not obstruct, or assist in obstructing a health officer, a police officer, or a public officer or a person appointed under this Ordinance, in the exercise of a power or performance of a function under this Ordinance.
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 2 months.

### Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance 《預防及控制疾病條例》

12. Compensation
(1) Where any article is damaged, destroyed, seized, surrendered or is submitted to any person pursuant to this Ordinance, the Director may order the payment of such compensation as is just and equitable in the circumstances.
(2) The Director shall serve an order made under subsection (1) on the person in respect of whom it is made, either personally or by post, within 7 days after the order is made.
(3) Any dispute arising from an order made under subsection (1) on the question whether compensation is payable or the amount of compensation shall, in the absence of agreement, be resolved or determined in accordance with this section.
(4) The dispute shall be resolved or determined by arbitration under the Arbitration Ordinance (Cap. 609) if the party disputing the Director’s order (the claimant

13. Immunity from personal liability of health officers, etc.
(1) No personal liability is incurred by a health officer, or a public officer or a person acting under his direction in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by the health officer, or public officer or person in good faith in the exercise or purported exercise of a power, or performance or purported performance of a function, under this Ordinance.
(2) The protection conferred by subsection (1) does not affect any liability in tort of the Government for that act or omission.

14. Internal management of vessels or aircraft of war not to be interfered with
This Ordinance shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of any vessels or aircraft of war of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army or of foreign vessels or aircraft of war, or with their freedom to proceed whenever the officer in command may deem such course requisite.

15. Amendment of Schedules
The Director may by notice published in the Gazette amend Schedules 1 and 2.

17. Saving of regulations
The Boats and Wharves (Supply of Water) Regulations (Cap. 141 sub. leg. A)*—
(a) shall, notwithstanding the repeal under section 16(1), continue in operation; and
(b) shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made by the Secretary for Health under section 7. (Amended L.N. 144 of 2022)

Editorial Note:
* Re-arranged as Cap. 599 sub. leg. B.

18. (Omitted as spent—E.R. 1 of 2013)

### Energy Efficiency (Labelling of Products) Ordinance 《能源效益(產品標籤)條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2019)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Energy Efficiency (Labelling of Products) Ordinance.
(2)-(3) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2019)

### Energy Efficiency (Labelling of Products) Ordinance 《能源效益(產品標籤)條例》

3. Application
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Ordinance applies to a prescribed product that is supplied in Hong Kong, including a prescribed product supplied as part of or in connection with the disposition of any specified premises.
(2) This Ordinance does not apply to a prescribed product that is—
(a) under trans-shipment or in transit through Hong Kong;
(b) manufactured in Hong Kong for export;
(c) supplied as scrap;
(d) supplied in a place other than Hong Kong under a sale agreement which is entered into in Hong Kong;
(e) a second-hand product; or
(f) supplied as part of or in connection with the disposition of any premises other than specified premises.

4. Prohibition on supply of prescribed products by manufacturer or importer without reference number and energy label
(1) A manufacturer or importer of a prescribed product shall not supply the prescribed product unless—
(a) that product is a product of a listed model with a reference number that—
(i) is assigned in the name of the manufacturer or importer; and
(ii) is included in the record;
(b) that product bears an energy label that—
(i) complies with the requirements specified in Schedule 2 for that prescribed product; and
(ii) is attached or affixed to the prescribed product or otherwise displayed in accordance with the requirements specified in Schedule 2 for that prescribed product; and
(c) the information set out on the energy label of that prescribed product conforms with the specified information submitted by the manufacturer or importer to the Director in respect of the model or, if the specified information has been amended pursuant to section 9 or 10, the specified information as read subject to section 9 or 10.
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 6.

### Energy Efficiency (Labelling of Products) Ordinance 《能源效益(產品標籤)條例》

5. Prohibition on supply of prescribed products by person other than manufacturer or importer without reference number and energy label
(1) A person who is not a manufacturer or importer of a prescribed product shall not supply the prescribed product unless the person has ensured—
(a) that the product is a product of a listed model with a reference number that is included in the record;
(b) that the product bears an energy label that—
(i) complies with the requirements specified in Schedule 2 for that prescribed product; and
(ii) is attached or affixed to the prescribed product or otherwise displayed in accordance with the requirements specified in Schedule 2 for that prescribed product; and
(c) that the information set out on the energy label of the product conforms with the information included in the record.
(2) Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to a compact fluorescent lamp that is supplied as part of or in connection with the disposition of any specified premises.
(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 6.
(4) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who—
(a) is an employee who does not exercise managerial functions; and
(b) supplies a prescribed product in accordance with the instructions given to him by his employer in the course of his employment.
(5) If an employee who does not exercise managerial functions supplies a prescribed product knowing that the product—
(a) is not a product of a listed model; or
(b) does not bear an energy label,
he commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 6.