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

33. Driver of carriage, etc., injuring person by furious driving
Any person who, having the charge of any carriage or vehicle, by wanton or furious driving or racing or other wilful misconduct, or by wilful neglect, does or causes to be done any bodily harm to any person 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 ss. 2 & 5; 22 of 1950 s. 3; 50 of 1991 s. 4)[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 35 U.K.]

33A. Suicide to cease to be a crime
The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated.
(Added 71 of 1967 s. 2)[cf. 1961 c. 60 s. 1 U.K.]

33B. Criminal liability for complicity in another’s suicide
(1) A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for 14 years. (Amended 50 of 1991 s. 4)
(2) If on the trial of an indictment for murder or manslaughter it is proved that the accused aided, abetted, counselled or procured the suicide of the person in question, the jury may find him guilty of the offence so proved.
(3) No proceedings shall be instituted for an offence under this section except with the consent of the Secretary for Justice. (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)
(Added 71 of 1967 s. 2)[cf. 1961 c. 60 s. 2 U.K.]

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

33C. “Year and a day rule” abrogated
(1) The rule known as the “year and a day rule” (that is, the rule that, for the purposes of offences involving death and of suicide, an act or omission is conclusively presumed not to have caused a person’s death if more than a year and a day elapsed before he died) is abrogated for all purposes.
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect the continued application of the rule referred to in that subsection to a case where the act or omission (or the last of the acts or omissions) which caused the death occurred before the commencement of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance 2000 (32 of 2000).
(Added 32 of 2000 s. 8)

34. Obstructing or assaulting clergyman, etc., in discharge of his duties
Any person who—
(a) by threats or force, obstructs or prevents, or endeavours to obstruct or prevent, any clergyman or other minister in or from celebrating divine service or otherwise officiating in any church, chapel, meeting house, or other place of the divine worship, or in or from the performance of his duty in the lawful burial of the dead in any churchyard or other burial place; or
(b) strikes or offers any violence to, or upon any civil process, or under the pretence of executing any civil process, arrests, any clergyman or other minister who is engaged in, or, to the knowledge of the offender, is about to engage in, any of the rites or duties in this section aforesaid, or who, to the knowledge of the offender, is going to perform the same or is returning from the performance thereof,
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 ss. 2 & 5; 22 of 1950 s. 3; 50 of 1991 s. 4)[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 36 U.K.]

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

35. Assault magistrate, etc., on account of his preserving wreck
Any person who assaults and strikes or wounds any magistrate, officer, or other person whomsoever lawfully authorized, in or on account of the exercise of his duty in or concerning the preservation of any vessel in distress, or of any vessel, goods, or effects wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, or lying under water, shall be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 7 years.
(Amended 30 of 1911 ss. 2 & 5; 50 of 1911 s. 4; 21 of 1912 s. 2; 50 of 1991 s. 4; 47 of 1997 s. 10)[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 37 U.K.]

36. Assault with intent to commit offence, or on police officer, etc.
Any person who—
(a) assaults any person with intent to commit an arrestable offence; or
(b) assaults, resists, or wilfully obstructs any police officer in the due execution of his duty or any person acting in aid of such officer; or
(c) assaults any person with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of himself or of any other person for any offence,
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 ss. 2 & 5; 51 of 1911 s. 2; 22 of 1950 s. 3; 50 of 1991 s. 4)[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 38 U.K.]

37. Certificate of dismissal of complaint
If the magistrate, on the hearing of any case of assault or battery upon the merits, where the complaint is preferred by or on behalf of the party aggrieved, deems the offence not to be proved, or finds the assault or battery to have been justified or so trifling as not to merit any punishment, and accordingly dismisses the complaint, he shall forthwith make out a certificate under his hand stating the fact of such dismissal, and shall deliver such certificate to the party against whom the complaint was preferred.
[cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 44 U.K.]