### Dangerous Goods Ordinance 《危險品條例》

14. Offences and penalties
(1) Any person who contravenes— (Amended 4 of 2002 s. 10 and E.R. 5 of 2021)
(a) section 6 or 7 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable— 
(i) for a first offence, to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 6 months;
(ii) for a subsequent offence, to a fine of $200,000 and to imprisonment for 12 months;
(b) section 8 or 10 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 6 months: (Amended 8 of 1959 s. 7; 4 of 2002 s. 10 and E.R. 5 of 2021)
Provided that any person accused of having contravened any of the provisions of section 10 shall not be liable to be convicted thereof if he shows, to the satisfaction of the magistrate before whom he is tried, that he did not know the nature of the goods to which the information relates, and that he could not, with reasonable diligence, have obtained such knowledge.(2) The occupier of any premises who fails to report an accident in contravention of the provisions of section 13 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine at level 3.
(3) Any person who—
(a) obstructs or delays any officer in the exercise of any of the powers conferred upon him by this Ordinance; or
(b) wilfully or recklessly gives false information or withholds information, as to the source from which any dangerous goods were obtained or as to the manufacture, conveyance, storage, packing, labelling or use of any dangerous goods, (Replaced 8 of 1964 s. 8)
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(Amended L.N. 171 of 1984; 4 of 2002 s. 10 and E.R. 5 of 2021)

### Dangerous Goods Ordinance 《危險品條例》

15. Liability of licence holder for offences committed by his employees and agents
Whenever it is proved to the satisfaction of any court having jurisdiction that an offence against this Ordinance has been committed by any employee or agent of any person holding a licence issued under this Ordinance, such person shall be held to be liable for such offence and to the penalty provided therefor, unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or consent and that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence:
Provided that—
(a) no such person shall be sentenced to imprisonment (except in default of payment of a fine) for any offence under this section; and
(b) nothing in this section shall be deemed to exempt the employee or agent from the penalties provided for the offence committed by him.

16. Liability of directors, etc. where offence committed by company
Where a person by whom an offence under this Ordinance has been committed is a company, every director and every officer concerned in the management of the company shall be guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the act constituting the offence took place without his knowledge or consent.
(Added 23 of 1961 s. 3)

17. Cancellation of licence on conviction
On the conviction of any person for an offence against this Ordinance, the magistrate may, in addition to any other penalty, order that any licence issued under this Ordinance held by such person shall be cancelled and any licence in respect whereof any such order is made shall be forthwith delivered by the holder thereof to the appropriate licensing authority for cancellation.

18. Forfeiture
A magistrate may order to be forfeited to the Government any dangerous goods and any container thereof with respect to which any offence against this Ordinance has been committed, whether any person has been charged with such offence or not.
(Amended 71 of 1999 s. 3)

### Dangerous Goods Ordinance 《危險品條例》

19A. Application of IMDG Code
(1) Where dangerous goods—
(a) are being carried on board a vessel from a place outside Hong Kong to Hong Kong; or
(b) are intended to be carried on board a vessel from Hong Kong to a place outside Hong Kong,
and such goods are packed, marked and labelled in accordance with the IMDG Code, they shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of any regulations made under this Ordinance in respect of the packing, marking and labelling of such goods for conveyance by vessels or by vehicles transporting them to or from any berth where the vessel on which they have been, or will be, conveyed is located.(2) Where dangerous goods are passing through Hong Kong as part of a journey from a place outside Hong Kong to another place outside Hong Kong and such goods are packed, marked and labelled in accordance with the IMDG Code, they shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of any regulations made under this Ordinance in respect of the packing, marking and labelling of such goods for conveyance by vessels or by vehicles across the territory.
(3) Subsection (1) also applies to dangerous goods where the vessel carrying or intended to carry such goods arrives at or departs from a port outside Hong Kong and the goods are transported by vehicle between Hong Kong and such vessel.
(Added 4 of 2002 s. 11 and E.R. 5 of 2021)

20. Saving for other enactments
The provisions of this Ordinance shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of any other enactment relating to dangerous goods.

### Disposal of Uncollected Goods Ordinance 《無人收領貨品處置條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Disposal of Uncollected Goods Ordinance.

### Disposal of Uncollected Goods Ordinance 《無人收領貨品處置條例》

3. Notices
(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression notice (通知) means a notice in writing in English or Chinese.
(2) A notice required or authorized by this Ordinance to be given by a bailee to a bailor shall, where the bailor is a corporation, be duly given if it is given to the secretary or clerk of the corporation.
(3) A notice required or authorized by this Ordinance to be given by a bailee to a bailor of the bailee’s intention to sell the goods shall be given by sending it by post in a registered letter.
(4) A notice required or authorized by this Ordinance to be given by a bailee to a bailor, other than a notice of the bailee’s intention to sell the goods, may be given either—
(a) by delivering it to the bailor; (Amended E.R. 4 of 2022)
(b) by leaving it at his proper address; or
(c) by post.
(5) For the purposes of this section, and of section 8 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1), in its application to this section, the proper address of a person to whom a notice falling within the provisions of subsection (3) or (4) is required or authorized to be given shall, in the case of the secretary or clerk of a corporation, be that of the registered or principal office of the corporation, and, in any other case, be the last known address of the person to whom the notice is to be given.
[cf. 1952 c. 43 s. 2 U.K.]