### Trade Unions Ordinance 《職工會條例》

47. Intimidation and annoyance
(1) Every person who, with a view to compelling any person to abstain from doing or to do any act that such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority—
(a) uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property; or
(b) persistently follows such other person about from place to place; or
(c) hides any tools, clothes or other property owned or used by such other person, or deprives him of the same or hinders him in the use thereof; or
(d) watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be or the approach to such house or place; or
(e) follows such other person in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended E.R. 3 of 2020)
(2) Attending at or near any place in such numbers, or otherwise in such manner, as is by the proviso to section 46 declared to be unlawful shall be deemed to be a watching or besetting of that place within the meaning of this section. (Amended 15 of 1971 s. 22)

### Trade Unions Ordinance 《職工會條例》

48. Conspiracy in relation to trade disputes
(1) An agreement or combination of 2 or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be triable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
(2) An act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by 2 or more persons shall, if done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless the act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable.
(3) Nothing in this section shall exempt from punishment any person guilty of a conspiracy for which a punishment is awarded by any enactment in force in Hong Kong. (Amended 47 of 1988 s. 3)
(4) Nothing in this section shall affect the law relating to riot, unlawful assembly, breach of the peace or any offence endangering national security. (Amended 6 of 2024 s. 155)
(5) Where a person is convicted of any such agreement or combination as is referred to in subsection (1) to do or procure to be done any act that is punishable on summary conviction, and is sentenced to imprisonment, the imprisonment shall not exceed 3 months, or such longer term, if any, as may have been prescribed by the law for the punishment of such act when committed by one person.
(6) Nothing in this section shall be construed in any way to limit or prejudice any of the provisions of the Societies Ordinance (Cap. 151).

### Trade Unions Ordinance 《職工會條例》

49. Punishment for withholding money or property of a registered trade union
(1) If any officer or any other person being or representing himself to be a member of a registered trade union or the nominee, executor, administrator or assignee of a member thereof or any person whatsoever, by false representation or imposition, obtains possession of any moneys, securities, books, papers or other effects of such trade union, or having the same in his possession, wilfully withholds or fraudulently misapplies the same, or wilfully applies any part of the same to purposes other than those expressed or directed in the rules of such trade union, the District Court, upon application made by such trade union or by any voting member of such trade union or by the Registrar, may make an order requiring such officer, member or other person to deliver up to the trade union all such moneys, securities, books, papers, or other effects of the trade union, or to repay the amount of the moneys applied improperly, and to pay to the trade union, if the District Court thinks fit, a further sum of money not exceeding $200 together with the costs of the application, and, in default of delivery of such effects, or repayment of such amount of money, or payment of such penalty and costs aforesaid, the said court may order such officer, member or person to be imprisoned for any time not exceeding 3 months:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall prevent any criminal proceedings being taken against such officer, member or other person in relation to any matter in respect of which an order was made under this subsection.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (1), any registered trade union or any voting member of a registered trade union or the Registrar may apply to the District Court for an injunction restraining an officer of the trade union from holding office or controlling trade union funds, and the District Court, if satisfied that there is a prima facie case against such officer for the fraudulent misuse of the funds of the trade union, may grant such injunction.

### Trade Unions Ordinance 《職工會條例》

50. Circulating false copies of rules, etc.
Any person who, with intent to mislead or defraud—
(a) gives to any member of a registered trade union or to any person intending or applying to become a member of such trade union a copy of any rules, or of any alterations or amendments of any rules, other than those that have been registered for the time being under this Ordinance, on the pretence that such rules are registered or that there are no other rules of such trade union; or
(b) gives a copy of any document purporting to be rules on the pretence that such document contains the rules of a trade union registered under this Ordinance, that is not so registered; or
(c) uses any sign, seal or stationery of any unregistered trade union on the pretence that such trade union is registered,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
(Amended E.R. 3 of 2020)

52. Contravention of rules
(1) If it appears to the Registrar that any registered trade union or any officer thereof has contravened or is about to contravene any of the rules of the trade union respecting any of the matters specified in Schedule 2, the Registrar may serve upon the trade union or upon such officer, as the case may be, a notice in writing requiring the trade union or such officer to comply with such rule. (Amended 15 of 1971 s. 23)
(2) If any registered trade union upon which, or any officer of a registered trade union upon whom, a notice has been served under subsection (1) fails to comply with such notice, the trade union or such officer, as the case may be, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1. (Amended E.R. 3 of 2020)

53. Application to trade union federations
(1) Save as hereinafter expressly provided, this Ordinance shall apply, in so far as applicable, to a trade union federation as if the component trade unions comprising such trade union federation were individual members of a trade union:
Provided that the Societies Ordinance (Cap. 151) shall not apply to a trade union federation so as to penalize any individual member of a registered trade union merely by reason of his being a member of such registered trade union.
(2) Save as otherwise provided, every notice, copy of rules or other document required by this Ordinance to be signed, in the case of a trade union, by the secretary or voting members thereof, or both, shall, in the case of a trade union federation, be signed by the chairman and one other officer thereof.

### Trade Unions Ordinance 《職工會條例》

54. Provisions as to application for registration of trade union federation
In the case of a trade union federation, an application for registration in accordance with section 5 shall be signed by the chairman and one other officer of each of the registered trade unions comprised therein, and shall be accompanied by a declaration from each of such trade unions, signed by 7 voting members thereof, that the application is made with the consent of the voting members thereof as declared by a majority of votes taken by secret ballot at a general meeting of the trade union.

55. Trade union federation not to be registered unless component trade unions registered
No trade union federation shall be registered by the Registrar unless each of the component trade unions comprising such trade union federation is a registered trade union.
(Amended 102 of 1997 s. 7)