### Colouring Matter in Food Regulations 《食物內染色料規例》

6. Offences and penalties
Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regulation 3, 4 or 5(1) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 6 months, and, where the offence is a continuing offence, to a fine of $300 for each day during which the offence continues. 
(L.N. 326 of 1987; L.N. 177 of 1996) 

7. Name in which proceedings may be brought
Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment relating to the prosecution of criminal offences, and without prejudice to the powers of the Secretary for Justice in relation to the prosecutions of criminal offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of these regulations may be brought in the name of the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene.
(L.N. 107 of 1965; L.N. 362 of 1997; 78 of 1999 s. 7)  

### Smokeless Tobacco Products (Prohibition) Regulations 《無煙煙草產品(禁止)規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Smokeless Tobacco Products (Prohibition) Regulations.

2. Interpretation
For the purposes of these regulations—
air transhipment cargo (航空轉運貨物) has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Import and Export Ordinance (Cap. 60);
air transit cargo (航空過境貨物) means any article in transit that is both imported and consigned for export in an aircraft;
article in transit (過境物品) has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Import and Export Ordinance (Cap. 60);
cargo transhipment area of Hong Kong International Airport (機場貨物轉運區) has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Import and Export Ordinance (Cap. 60);
import (輸入) means import in the course of a trade or business.
(29 of 2000 s. 5)

3. Prohibition of importation, etc., of smokeless tobacco products
(1) No person shall import, manufacture, sell, possess for sale, offer or expose for sale, consign or deliver any smokeless tobacco product. 
(2) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (L.N. 336 of 1987; L.N. 177 of 1996)

### Smokeless Tobacco Products (Prohibition) Regulations 《無煙煙草產品(禁止)規例》

3A. Application to air transit or air transhipment cargo
(1) Regulation 3(1) does not apply in relation to the import of a smokeless tobacco product that is air transit cargo or air transhipment cargo; but if at any time between its being brought into and taken out of Hong Kong such product is removed from the cargo transhipment area of Hong Kong International Airport then, for the purposes of regulation 3(1)—
(a) the product is deemed to be imported at the time of such removal; and
(b) the person who brought the product, or caused it to be brought, into Hong Kong as air transit cargo or air transhipment cargo is deemed to be the person who imports the product at the time of its removal,
and, except to that extent, that regulation has effect as if this paragraph had not been enacted.
(2) In proceedings against a person for an offence under regulation 3(2), being proceedings—
(a) in relation to the import of a smokeless tobacco product that is air transit cargo or air transhipment cargo; and
(b) in which it is necessary for the prosecution to prove that, at any time between its being brought into and taken out of Hong Kong, the product was removed from the cargo transhipment area of Hong Kong International Airport,
it is a defence for the person to show that he took all reasonable steps and exercised reasonable diligence to avoid such removal occurring.
(3) Where in any proceedings the defence provided by paragraph (2) involves an allegation that the commission of the offence was due to—
(a) the act or default of another person; or
(b) reliance on information given by another person,
the defendant is not, without the leave of the court, entitled to rely on the defence unless, not less than 10 days before the hearing of the proceedings, he has served a notice in writing on the prosecutor giving all particulars of—
(i) the person who committed the act or default or gave the information; and
(ii) the act, default or information,
of which he is aware at the time he serves the notice.
(4) A person is not entitled to rely on the defence provided by paragraph (2) by reason of his reliance on information supplied by another person, unless he shows that it was reasonable in all the circumstances for him to have relied on the information, having regard in particular to—
(a) the steps which he took, and those which might reasonably have been taken, for the purpose of verifying the information; and
(b) whether he had any reason to disbelieve the information.
(29 of 2000 s. 5)

### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance.
(Amended 10 of 1986 s. 3)

2. Interpretation
(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
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3. Designation of Authorities
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Authority for the purposes of each section of this Ordinance specified in the first column of the Third Schedule is the public officer specified opposite to it in the second column of that Schedule. (Replaced 78 of 1999 s. 7)
(2) The Chief Executive in Council may by order designate any public officer to be the Authority for the purposes of any of the sections of this Ordinance in substitution for the public officer specified in the Third Schedule as the Authority for the purposes of that section. (Amended 78 of 1999 s. 7)
(3) The Chief Executive in Council may by order amend, add to or delete from the Third Schedule.
(Amended 59 of 2000 s. 3)

4. Construction and maintenance of public sewers and drains
The Authority shall be responsible for causing the construction, repair and maintenance of all public sewers, drains or drainage works, and may alter or disconnect the connection therewith of any private sewer, drain or drainage works.

5. Cleansing of public sewers
The Authority shall be responsible for the proper clearing, cleansing and emptying of public sewers, drains and drainage works, and for the abatement of nuisances arising in connection therewith.