### Crimes Ordinance 《刑事罪行條例》

147F. Obstruction
Any person who obstructs, or fails to comply with any reasonable requirement of, any police officer acting, or any person assisting a police officer, under section 147B(3) or under a warrant issued under section 147B(4) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 6 months. 
(Added 69 of 1990 s. 6. Amended E.R. 4 of 2021)

148. Indecency in public
(1) A person who, without lawful authority or excuse, in any public place or in view of the public indecently exposes any part of his body shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended E.R. 4 of 2021)
(2) A person under the age of 12 shall not be guilty of an offence under subsection (1) by reason only of his bathing unclothed.
(Added 1 of 1978 s. 6)

149. Conviction for offence other than that charged
(1) If on the trial of a charge for an offence specified in the second column of Schedule 1 the accused is acquitted, but it is proved that the accused is guilty of any offence specified opposite thereto in the third column of Schedule 1 or of being party to any such offence, he shall be convicted of such offence or of being a party to any such offence and shall be liable to be punished accordingly. (Amended 31 of 2003 s. 15)
(2) Nothing in this section shall exclude the application to any offence of any other law authorizing a court to find a person guilty of an offence other than that with which he is charged.
(Added 1 of 1978 s. 6)

150. Proof of exceptions
Where in any section in this Part the description of an offence is expressed to be subject to exceptions mentioned in the section, proof of the exception is to lie on the person relying on it.
(Added 1 of 1978 s. 6)[cf. 1956 c. 69 s. 47 U.K.]

### Crimes Ordinance 《刑事罪行條例》

151. Power of search in case of living on another’s earnings of prostitution
Where it is made to appear to a magistrate by information on oath that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any premises or vessel is used by a person for the purpose of prostitution, and that another person residing in or frequenting the premises or vessel is living wholly or in part on that person’s earnings, the magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing a police officer to enter and search such premises or vessel and to arrest that other person. 
(Added 1 of 1978 s. 6. Amended 90 of 1991 s. 22)[cf. 1956 c. 69 s. 42 U.K.]

152. General power of search and seizure
(1) If a police officer of the rank of superintendent or above has reason to suspect that an offence under this Part has been or is being committed in or in respect of or in connexion with any premises or place or any vessel, he may in writing authorize any police officer for the purposes of this section.
(2) A police officer authorized under subsection (1) for the purposes of this section, and any other police officer assisting him may—
(a) enter, by force if necessary, the premises or place or vessel specified in the authorization and search the same;
(b) search any person found in such premises or place or vessel;
(c) seize and detain anything found in such premises or place or vessel which appears to him to be or to contain evidence of an offence under this Part.
(3) No person shall be searched under subsection (2) except by a person of the same sex.
(Added 1 of 1978 s. 6)

### Crimes Ordinance 《刑事罪行條例》

153. Seizure and forfeiture in respect of vice establishment
(1) Without prejudice to section 152, if a police officer reasonably suspects that any premises, vessel or place is being kept as a vice establishment, he may seize and detain anything found in such premises, vessel or place, or on any person found in such premises, vessel or place, which appears to him to have been used in or for or in connexion with the commission of an offence under section 139.
(2) If, in any proceedings for an offence under section 139, 143 or 144 or otherwise on application by or on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, a court or magistrate is satisfied that anything in the possession of the court or magistrate or the police, not being immovable property, has been used in or for or in connexion with the commission of an offence under section 139, the court or magistrate may order that it be forfeited to the Government, whether or not any person has been convicted of an offence under section 139. (Amended 13 of 1999 s. 3)
(Added 1 of 1978 s. 6)

### Crimes Ordinance 《刑事罪行條例》

153B. Closure order
(1) A closure order shall—
(a) identify the premises to which it relates;
(b) state that the premises are to be closed for 6 months and that any person who enters or is in the premises after they have been closed or who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, interferes with anything used to close the premises commits an offence;
(c) order the closure of the premises; and
(d) state that any person who is a mortgagee or chargee of the premises or who would, if the premises were not closed,—
(i) be entitled or permitted to occupy or possess the premises; or
(ii) be the immediate landlord of the occupier of the premises,
may, in accordance with section 153I, apply for the order to be suspended.
(2) A court or magistrate making a closure order in respect of any premises—
(a) shall issue a warrant to any bailiff, commanding him to close the premises and to affix a copy of the closure order to a conspicuous part of the premises; and
(b) may direct that the warrant is not to be executed until after a specified period not exceeding 3 days.
(3) A bailiff by whom a warrant issued under this section is executed in respect of any premises, and any person whose assistance may be necessary, may—
(a) enter (by force if necessary) any place in order to effect the closure;
(b) evict persons from the premises;
(c) use such reasonable force and take such reasonable measures as are necessary to effect the closure.
(Added 69 of 1990 s. 7)