### Dangerous Goods (Consignment by Air) (Safety) Ordinance 《危險品(航空托運)(安全)條例》

3. Regulations concerning dangerous goods
(1) The Chief Executive in Council may make regulations— (Amended 36 of 1999 s. 3)
(a) for giving effect to and carrying out the Annex and any edition of the Technical Instructions specified in the regulations, in so far as they relate to the duties and obligations of any person with respect to the preparation, packing, marking, labelling and offering of dangerous goods for carriage by air and the packaging and documentation for such goods;
(b) empowering the Chief Executive to exempt any person, dangerous goods or packaging or any class or category of persons, dangerous goods or packaging from the regulations; (Amended 36 of 1999 s. 3)
(c) empowering the Director—
(i) to exempt any person, dangerous goods or packaging from the regulations;
(ii) to give directions in relation to such matters as may be specified in the regulations; and
(iii) to amend any Schedule to the regulations; and
(d) generally for the better carrying into effect of the provisions and purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of any specified provision thereof is an offence and may prescribe a penalty therefor not exceeding a fine of $500,000 and imprisonment for 2 years. (Amended 52 of 1985 s. 2)

4. Powers of entry, inspection and seizure
(1) The Director or any officer of the Civil Aviation Department authorized in writing by him in that behalf (hereinafter referred to as an authorized officer

5. Liability of directors, etc. where offence committed by company
Where a person by whom an offence under this Ordinance is committed is a company, every director and every officer concerned in the management of the company may be convicted of the like offence unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court or magistrate that—
(a) the act or omission constituting the offence occurred without his knowledge or consent; and
(b) he exercised all such reasonable supervision and reasonable diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances.

6. Forfeiture
A magistrate may order the forfeiture of any dangerous goods and any packaging for dangerous goods in respect of which an offence under this Ordinance has been committed, whether or not any person has been charged with the offence.

### Dangerous Goods (Consignment by Air) (Safety) Ordinance 《危險品(航空托運)(安全)條例》

7. Saving for other enactments
(1) Subject to subsection (2), 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.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in the Dangerous Goods Ordinance (Cap. 295), where dangerous goods intended for carriage by air are properly packed, and the packaging thereof is properly marked and labelled, in accordance with this Ordinance, the goods and packaging shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance (Cap. 295) with respect to the packing, marking and labelling of such goods for the purpose of conveyance by vehicle or vessel to or from any aerodrome.

### Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance 《香港人權法案條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 1 of 2017)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 1 of 2017)

2. Interpretation
(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
article means an article of the Bill of Rights;
Bill of Rights (人權法案) means the Hong Kong Bill of Rights set out in Part II;
commencement date (生效日期) means the date on which this Ordinance comes into operation;
legislation (法例) means legislation that can be amended by an Ordinance;
pre-existing legislation (先前法例) means legislation enacted before the commencement date.
(2) The Bill of Rights is subject to Part III.
(3) (#Not adopted as the Laws of the HKSAR)
(4) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be interpreted as implying for the Government or any authority, group or person any right to engage in any activity or perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms recognized in the Bill of Rights or at their limitation to a greater extent than is provided for in the Bill. [cf. ICCPR Art. 5.1]
(5) There shall be no restriction upon or derogation from any of the fundamental human rights recognized or existing in Hong Kong pursuant to law, conventions, regulations or custom on the pretext that the Bill of Rights does not recognize such rights or that it recognizes them to a lesser extent. [cf. ICCPR Art. 5.2]
(6) A heading to any article does not have any legislative effect and does not in any way vary, limit or extend the meaning of the article.

Editorial Note:
# See Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Treatment of the Laws Previously in Force in Hong Kong in accordance with Article 160 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Instrument A206 in Hong Kong e-legislation (http://www.elegislation.gov.hk)).

3. Effect on pre-existing legislation
(1)-(2) (#Not adopted as the Laws of the HKSAR)
(3)-(4) (Repealed 2 of 1998 s. 2) Editorial Note:
# See Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Treatment of the Laws Previously in Force in Hong Kong in accordance with Article 160 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Instrument A206 in Hong Kong e-legislation (http://www.elegislation.gov.hk)).

### Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance 《香港人權法案條例》

4. (Not adopted as the Laws of the HKSAR)

Editorial Note:
See Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Treatment of the Laws Previously in Force in Hong Kong in accordance with Article 160 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Instrument A206 in Hong Kong e-legislation (http://www.elegislation.gov.hk)).

5. Public emergencies
(1) In time of public emergency which threatens the life of the nation and the existence of which is officially proclaimed, measures may be taken derogating from the Bill of Rights to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation, but these measures shall be taken in accordance with law.
(2) No measure shall be taken under subsection (1) that—
(a) is inconsistent with any obligation under international law that applies to Hong Kong (other than an obligation under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights);
(b) involves discrimination solely on the ground of race, colour, sex, language, religion or social origin; or
(c) derogates from articles 2, 3, 4(1) and (2), 7, 12, 13 and 15.
[cf. ICCPR Art. 4]

6. Remedies for contravention of Bill of Rights
(1) A court or tribunal—
(a) in proceedings within its jurisdiction in an action for breach of this Ordinance; and
(b) in other proceedings within its jurisdiction in which a violation or threatened violation of the Bill of Rights is relevant,
may grant such remedy or relief, or make such order, in respect of such a breach, violation or threatened violation as it has power to grant or make in those proceedings and as it considers appropriate and just in the circumstances.
(2) No proceedings shall be held to be outside the jurisdiction of any court or tribunal on the ground that they relate to the Bill of Rights.

7. Binding effect of Ordinance
(1) This Ordinance binds only—
(a) the Government and all public authorities; and
(b) any person acting on behalf of the Government or a public authority.
(2) In this section—
person (人) includes any body of persons, corporate or unincorporate.