### Protection of Children and Juveniles Ordinance 《保護兒童及少年條例》

45. Power of Director of Social Welfare to require persons to attend inquiry
(1) The Director of Social Welfare may from time to time hold any such inquiry as he may consider necessary to enable him to exercise the powers vested in him by this Ordinance or by any regulations and by notice in writing under his hand may require any person to attend such inquiry and to give evidence.
(2) Any person who—
(a) on service of such notice, does not appear at the time and place therein mentioned; or
(b) fails without lawful excuse to produce all documents in his custody, possession or power, or to answer truthfully all questions which the Director of Social Welfare may put to him, relating to the matter under inquiry; or
(c) having any child or juvenile in his custody or control and being required by the Director of Social Welfare to produce him, without lawful excuse refuses or neglects to comply with such requirement,
shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty: a fine at level 2 and imprisonment for 3 months. (Amended 25 of 1993 s. 17; E.R. 2 of 2020)
(Amended 1 of 1958 Schedule; 32 of 1978 s. 14)

### Protection of Children and Juveniles Ordinance 《保護兒童及少年條例》

46. Service of summons, notice, etc.
All summonses, notices and other documents required to be served or given under this Ordinance shall be deemed validly and sufficiently served or given to or left with the person intended to be served or to whom the notice is intended to be given or, if he cannot be readily found, if posted by registered post to, or left with some adult at, his last known place of abode or business.

47. Reception in evidence of warrant, order, direction or authorization under hand of the Director of Social Welfare
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2020)Any warrant, order, direction or authorization, purporting to be issued in pursuance of this Ordinance under the hand of the Director of Social Welfare, shall be received in evidence in every court without further proof, and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated, and all acts done in pursuance thereof shall be deemed to have been authorized by law.
(Amended 1 of 1958 Schedule)

48. Delegation of powers
(1) Save where the contrary intention appears from the context of any provision of this Ordinance and subject to any special instructions of the Director of Social Welfare, an Assistant Director of Social Welfare may exercise or discharge any of the powers or duties which the Director of Social Welfare is entitled to exercise or required to discharge by any of the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) Save where a contrary intention appears from the context of any of the provisions of this Ordinance, and subject to any special instructions of the Chief Executive, the Director of Social Welfare may authorize any public officer to exercise or discharge any of the powers or duties which the Director of Social Welfare is entitled to exercise or required to discharge by any of the provisions of this Ordinance. (Amended 66 of 1999 s. 3)
(Added 17 of 1961 s. 2)

### Offences against the Person Ordinance 《侵害人身罪條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Offences against the Person Ordinance.
(Amended 5 of 1924 s. 6)[cf. 1861 c. 100 U.K.]

2. Murder
Any person who is convicted of murder shall be imprisoned for life. However, if it appears to the court that a person convicted of murder was under 18 years of age at the time of the offence, the court has a discretion as to whether the person should be sentenced to imprisonment for life or to imprisonment for a shorter term.
(Amended 50 of 1991 s. 4; 24 of 1993 s. 5; 86 of 1997 s. 44)[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 1 U.K.]

5. Conspiring or soliciting to commit murder
All persons who within Hong Kong conspire, confederate, and agree to murder any person, whatever his nationality or citizenship and wherever he may be, and any person who within Hong Kong solicits, encourages, persuades or endeavours to persuade, or proposes to any person to murder any other person, whatever his nationality or citizenship and wherever he may be, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
(Amended 30 of 1911 ss. 2 & 5; 64 of 1983 s. 4; 13 of 1999 s. 3) [cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 4 U.K.]

6. (Repealed 13 of 1999 s. 3)(Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 13 of 1999 s. 3)

7. Manslaughter
Any person who is convicted of manslaughter shall be liable to imprisonment for life and to pay such fine as the court may award.
(Amended 30 of 1911 ss. 2, 5 & 11; 50 of 1911 Schedule)[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 5 U.K.]

8. Excusable homicide
No punishment shall be incurred by any person who kills another by misfortune, or in his own defence, or lawfully in any other manner.
(Amended 50 of 1991 s. 4)[cf. 1861 c.100 s. 7 U.K.]

### Offences against the Person Ordinance 《侵害人身罪條例》

8A. Alternative verdicts
On an indictment for murder a person found not guilty of murder may be found guilty of—
(a) any offence of which he may be found guilty under any Ordinance specifically so providing, or under section 51(2) or section 90(2) of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance (Cap. 221); or
(b) an attempt to commit murder, or of an attempt to commit any other offence of which he may be found guilty.
(Added 5 of 1971 Schedule)[cf. 1967 c. 58 s. 6 U.K.]

8B. Certain homicides to constitute offences
(1) Where—
(a) an act takes place on the high seas or in any other place outside Hong Kong;
(b) the person against or in relation to whom the act is committed or took place dies in Hong Kong as a result of the act; and
(c) the act would, if taking place in Hong Kong, constitute murder or manslaughter or being accessory to murder or manslaughter,
whatever the citizenship or nationality of the person committing it or responsible for it, the act shall constitute the crime of, as may be appropriate, murder or manslaughter or so being accessory.
(2) In this section act

9. Trial of homicide where cause of death only happens in Hong Kong
Where any person being unlawfully stricken, poisoned, or otherwise hurt at any place in Hong Kong dies of such stroke, poisoning, or hurt upon the sea or at any place out of Hong Kong, every offence committed in respect of any such case, whether the same amounts to the offence of murder, or of manslaughter, or of being accessory to murder or manslaughter, may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in Hong Kong in which such stroke, poisoning, or hurt happens, in the same manner in all respects as if such offence had been wholly committed in Hong Kong.
(Amended 50 of 1991 s. 4; 13 of 1999 s. 3)[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 10 U.K.]

9A. Genocide
(1) A person commits the offence of genocide if he commits any act falling within the definition of genocide