### Offences against the Person Ordinance 《侵害人身罪條例》

28. Causing bodily injury by gunpower, etc.
Any person who unlawfully and maliciously, by the explosion of gunpowder or any other explosive substance, burns, maims, disfigures, disables, or does any grievous bodily harm to any person shall be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
(Amended 30 of 1911 ss. 2, 4 & 5; 39 of 1954 Second Schedule; 50 of 1991 s. 4)[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 28 U.K.]

29. Causing gunpowder to explode, etc., or throwing corrosive fluid, with intent to do grievous bodily harm
Any person who unlawfully and maliciously—
(a) causes any gunpowder or other explosive substance to explode; or
(b) sends or delivers to, or causes to be taken or received by, any person any explosive substance or any other dangerous or noxious thing; or
(c) puts or lays at any place, or casts or throws at or upon or otherwise applies to any person, any corrosive fluid or any destructive or explosive substance,
with intent in any of such cases to burn, maim, disfigure, or disable any person or to do some grievous bodily harm to any person, shall, whether any bodily injury is effected or not, be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
(Amended 30 of 1911 ss. 2, 4 & 5; 39 of 1954 Schedule; 50 of 1991 s. 4)[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 29 U.K.]

29A. Possession of corrosive substance
Any person who without lawful authority or reasonable excuse has in his possession or custody or under his control in any public place any corrosive fluid which is capable of inflicting grievous bodily harm shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for 3 years.
(Added 8 of 1969 s. 2)

### Offences against the Person Ordinance 《侵害人身罪條例》

30. Placing gunpowder near building, etc., with intent to do bodily injury
Any person who unlawfully and maliciously places or throws in, into, upon, against or near any building, ship, or vessel any gunpowder or other explosive substance, with intent to do any bodily injury to any person, shall, whether or not any explosion takes place and whether or not any bodily injury is effected, be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment. for 14 years.
(Amended 30 of 1911 ss. 2, 4 & 5; 39 of 1954 Schedule; 50 of 1991 s. 4)[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 30 U.K.]

31. Setting spring gun, etc., with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm
(1) Any person who sets or places, or causes to be set or placed, any spring gun, man trap, or other engine calculated to destroy human life or to inflict grievous bodily harm, with intent that the same or whereby the same may destroy or inflict grievous bodily harm upon a trespasser or other person coming in contact therewith, shall be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 3 years. (Amended 30 of 1911 ss. 2 & 5; 50 of 1991 s. 4)
(2) Any person who knowingly and wilfully permits any such spring gun, man trap, or other engine which may have been set or placed in any place then being in or afterwards coming into his possession or occupation by some other person to continue so set or placed shall be deemed to have set and placed such gun, trap, or engine with such intent as aforesaid:
Provided that—
(a) nothing in this section shall extend to make it illegal to set or place any gun or trap such as may have been or may be usually set or placed with the intent of destroying vermin; and
(b) nothing in this section shall be deemed to make it unlawful to set or place or cause to be set or placed, or to be continued set or placed, from sunset to sunrise, any spring gun, man trap, or other engine which is set or placed, or caused or continued to be set or placed, in a dwelling- house, for the protection thereof.

[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 31 U.K.]

### Offences against the Person Ordinance 《侵害人身罪條例》

32. Placing wood, etc., on a railway with intent to endanger passengers
(1) Any person who unlawfully and maliciously puts or throws upon or across any railway any wood, stone, or other matter or thing, or unlawfully and maliciously takes up, removes, or displaces any rail, sleeper, or other matter or thing belonging to any railway, or unlawfully and maliciously turns, moves, or diverts any points or other machinery belonging to any railway, or unlawfully and maliciously makes or shows, hides or removes, any signal or light upon or near to any railway, or unlawfully and maliciously does or causes to be done any other matter or thing, with intent, in any of the cases aforesaid, to endanger the safety of any person travelling or being upon such railway, shall be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 14 years. (Amended 30 of 1911 s. 2; 39 of 1954 Second Schedule; 50 of 1991 s. 4) [cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 32 U.K.]
(2) Any person who unlawfully and maliciously throws or causes to fall or strike, at, against, into, or upon any engine, tender, carriage, or truck used upon any railway, any wood, stone, or other matter or thing, with intent to injure or endanger the safety of any person being in or upon such engine, tender, carriage, or truck, or in or upon any other engine, tender, carriage, or truck of any train of which such first-mentioned engine, tender, carriage, or truck shall form part, shall be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 14 years. (Amended 30 of 1911 s. 2; 50 of 1991 s. 4) [cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 33 U.K.]
(3) Any person who, by any unlawful act, or by any wilful omission or neglect, endangers or causes to be endangered the safety of any person conveyed or being in or likely to be in or upon or near to a railway, or aids or assists therein, shall be guilty of an offence triable either summarily or upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 2 years. (Amended 30 of 1911 s. 2; 22 of 1950 s. 3; 50 of 1991 s. 4) [cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 34 U.K.]
(4) For the purposes of this section, railway