### Fisheries Protection Ordinance 《漁業保護條例》

35. Giving and obtaining information
Despite any provision in any other Ordinance—
(a) the Director may obtain from the Director of Marine any particulars or information relating to a vessel (including particulars of its owner) for any purpose in connection with any matter relating to fishing, registration of local fishing vessels or any research fishing permit; and
(b) the Director of Marine may supply any particulars or information referred to in paragraph (a) to the Director.

36. False statement or information
A person who, for the purpose of procuring, whether for the person or any other person—
(a) the registration of a fishing vessel or alteration to any vessel particulars or conditions for registration; or
(b) the issue or renewal of a research fishing permit,
makes a declaration or statement, or furnishes any information or document, knowing it to be false or misleading as to a material particular, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 3 months.

37. Director may require information or document
(1) The Director may, for the purpose of ascertaining whether any provision of this Ordinance is complied with in respect of a vessel, by notice sent to the owner, certificate holder, master, coxswain, permit holder or other person in charge of the vessel or an applicant for registration or research fishing permit, require that person to furnish to the Director, within the period specified in the notice, any information or document as required by the Director.
(2) The Director may refuse an application under this Ordinance if the applicant fails to furnish any information or document in connection with the application as required by the Director. (Amended 22 of 2020 s. 11)
(3) An applicant who had made an application under this Ordinance or a certificate holder or permit holder must inform the Director by notice in writing of his or her change of address within 7 days of the change.
(4) The information which may be required under subsection (1) includes information on the names and addresses of persons on board the vessel at any time fishing is carried out with the use or aid of the vessel within the waters of Hong Kong or any other information as the Director may require for the exercise of any power or the performance of any duty or function conferred or imposed on the Director under this Ordinance.
(5) A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement of a notice sent under subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 3.

38. No unauthorized alteration to certificate of registration or research fishing permit
A person who without reasonable excuse makes any alteration to or obliteration or defacement of a certificate of registration or research fishing permit otherwise than as a public officer performing a function under this Ordinance commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 3.

### Fisheries Protection Ordinance 《漁業保護條例》

39. Director may determine any form to be used
Any application, notice or consent that may be or required to be made or given under this Ordinance is to be made or given in such form as may be determined by the Director.

40. Fees
(1) The fee for an item specified in column 2 of Schedule 3 is payable at the time specified in column 3 of that Schedule in the amount specified in column 4 of that Schedule opposite to that item.
(2) A fee paid under this section is not refundable.

41. Contents of notice of Director’s decision
A notice sent under section 14(5) or 26(4) or a notice of cancellation of a research fishing permit under section 29(2) must state—
(a) the fact that the Director refuses the application or cancels the permit;
(b) the reasons for the refusal or cancellation; and
(c) that the applicant or permit holder may appeal against the Director’s decision to the Administrative Appeals Board within 21 days from the date of the notice.

42. Sending of documents
(1) Any notice, document or information that may be or is required to be sent to—
(a) an individual, may be sent by delivering it to the individual personally, or by leaving it with some person for the person at the person’s last known address, or by sending it to the person by ordinary mail to that address;
(b) a company, may be sent by delivering it at or sending it by ordinary mail to the principal office of the company.
(2) If the notice, document or information is sent—
(a) by ordinary mail under subsection (1), unless the contrary is shown, it is taken to have been received by the addressee at the time when it would be delivered in the ordinary course of post;
(b) by electronic mail transmission, unless the contrary is shown, it is taken to have been received by the addressee when it would be received at that address in the ordinary course of transmission.

43. Resolution of any conflicting provisions
If a provision of the Shipping and Port Control Ordinance (Cap. 313), the Marine Fish Culture Ordinance (Cap. 353), the Marine Parks Ordinance (Cap. 476) or the Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance (Cap. 548) is inconsistent with a provision of this Ordinance, the provision of that other Ordinances prevails to the extent of the inconsistency.

44. Amendment of Schedules
(1) The Director may, by order published in the Gazette, amend Schedule 1.
(2) The Director may, by notice published in the Gazette, amend Schedule 2.
(3) The Secretary may, by order published in the Gazette, amend Schedule 3.

### Fisheries Protection Ordinance 《漁業保護條例》

45. Transitional
A person does not contravene section 11 if the person is engaged in fishing with the use or aid of a local fishing vessel or any of its ancillary vessels that is designed and equipped to be used primarily for fishing—
(a) (Repealed 22 of 2020 s. 12)(b) if an application under section 14(1) or 14A(2) has been made in respect of the vessel and has not been refused or finally disposed of. (Amended 22 of 2020 s. 12)

### Wild Animals Protection Ordinance 《野生動物保護條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Wild Animals Protection Ordinance.

### Wild Animals Protection Ordinance 《野生動物保護條例》

4. Hunting, etc. of protected wild animals prohibited
No person shall, except in accordance with a special permit, hunt or wilfully disturb any protected wild animal. 
(Amended 77 of 1996 s. 3)

5. Protection of nests and eggs
No person shall, except in accordance with a special permit, take, remove, injure, destroy or wilfully disturb a nest or egg of any protected wild animal. 
(Amended 58 of 1980 s. 3; 77 of 1996 s. 4)

7. Hunting by certain means prohibited
(1) No person shall, except in accordance with a special permit, hunt any wild animal by means of—
(a) a live decoy or the emission of recorded noises; 
(b) any pitfall; 
(c) any arms; or 
(d) any hunting appliance other than a hunting appliance approved by the Director for the purposes of this section by notice in the Gazette. 
(2) No person shall, except in accordance with a special permit, have in his possession any hunting appliance other than a hunting appliance approved by the Director for the purposes of this section by notice in the Gazette, or make a pitfall for the purpose of hunting any wild animal.
(Replaced 58 of 1980 s. 4. Amended 77 of 1996 s. 5)