### Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance 《選舉(舞弊及非法行為)條例》

13. Corrupt conduct to use or threaten to use force or duress against electors
(1) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person—
(a) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person to induce the other person to vote at the election, or to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or
(b) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person because the other person voted at the election, or voted at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or
(c) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person to induce the other person to get a third person to vote at the election, or to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates.
(2) A person also engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person—
(a) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person to induce the other person not to vote at the election, or not to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or
(b) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person because the other person refrained from voting at the election, or refrained from voting at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or
(c) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person to get the other person to induce a third person not to vote at the election, or not to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or
(d) by abduction, prevents an elector from voting at the election.
(3) A person is taken to have engaged in corrupt conduct of a kind referred to in subsection (1) or (2) even though the conduct was engaged in by another person, but only if the other person was acting with the person’s authority. That authority may be conferred expressly or by implication.
(4) A corporate elector does not contravene this section only because it has instructed its authorized representative to cast its vote, or not to cast its vote, at an election for a particular candidate or particular candidates.

### Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance 《選舉(舞弊及非法行為)條例》

14. Corrupt conduct to engage in certain deceptive or obstructive behaviour in relation to electors
(Amended 14 of 2021 s. 370)(1) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person, by a deception—
(a) induces another person to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or
(b) induces another person not to vote at the election, or not to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or
(c) gets another person to induce a third person to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or
(d) gets another person to induce a third person not to vote at the election, or not to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates.
(e) (Repealed 14 of 2021 s. 370)(f) (Repealed 14 of 2021 s. 370)(1A) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person wilfully—
(a) obstructs or prevents another person from voting at the election; or
(b) gets another person to obstruct or prevent a third person from voting at the election. (Added 14 of 2021 s. 370)
(1B) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under section 6(1) for having engaged in the corrupt conduct under subsection (1A) to prove that, at the time of the alleged offence, the person had lawful authority or reasonable excuse for doing the act to which the charge relates. (Added 14 of 2021 s. 370)
(2) A person is taken to have engaged in corrupt conduct of a kind referred to in subsection (1) or (1A) even though the conduct was engaged in by another person, but only if the other person was acting with the person’s authority. That authority may be conferred expressly or by implication. 
(Amended 14 of 2021 s. 370)

15. Corrupt conduct to impersonate another at election
(1) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person, otherwise than as expressly permitted by an electoral law—
(a) applies for a ballot paper in the name of another person; or
(b) having voted at an election, applies at the same election for a ballot paper in the person’s own name.
(2) In subsection (1), the reference to another person includes a reference to a person who has died or is a fictitious person as well as to an actual living person.

### Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance 《選舉(舞弊及非法行為)條例》

17. Corrupt conduct to destroy or deface ballot papers
(1) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person—
(a) without lawful authority, supplies a ballot paper to another person; or
(b) with intent to deceive, puts into a ballot box a paper other than a ballot paper that the person is lawfully authorized to put into the box; or
(c) with intent to deceive, removes a ballot paper from a polling station; or
(d) without lawful authority, destroys, defaces, takes or otherwise interferes with a ballot paper in use, or that has been used, at the election; or
(e) without lawful authority, destroys, removes, opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot box in use at the election.
(2) In a prosecution for an offence against this section, the onus of proving lawful authority lies on the defendant.

18. Corrupt conduct to make improper use of election donations
A candidate or other person who uses election donations for a purpose—
(a) other than that of meeting, or contributing towards meeting, the election expenses of the candidate; or
(b) in the case of an election donation consisting of goods or a service, other than that of promoting the election of the candidate or that of prejudicing the election of another candidate or other candidates,
engages in corrupt conduct at an election.