### Animals (Control of Experiments) Ordinance 《動物(實驗管制)條例》

12. Duty to render returns
(1) Every licensee shall render to the Licensing Authority in such form and at such time as may be prescribed such returns as may be required in relation to any experiments performed by the licensee. (Amended 12 of 1964 s. 7)
(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section 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. (Added 12 of 1964 s. 7. Amended E.R. 5 of 2022)

13. Power to make regulations
(1) The Secretary for Environment and Ecology may make regulations generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance. (Amended 80 of 1997 s. 19; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; L.N. 144 of 2022)
(2) Regulations made under subsection (1) may, without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by subsection (1), provide— (Amended 80 of 1997 s. 19)
(a) for the keeping of records of all experiments performed by any licensee;
(b) for the rendering of returns in relation to any experiments performed under this Ordinance; and
(c) that the contravention of any regulation shall constitute an offence and may prescribe penalties for any offence not exceeding a fine at level 1 and imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended E.R. 5 of 2022)
(3) The Director of Health may by regulation specify forms to be used as regards applications or any matter or thing done or to be done under this Ordinance and any regulations made under this section. (Added 80 of 1997 s. 19)
(4) Subsection (1) shall not be construed as enabling the Secretary for Environment and Ecology to make regulations as regards any matter in relation to which regulations may be made under subsection (3). (Added 80 of 1997 s. 19. Amended L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; L.N. 144 of 2022)

### Animals (Control of Experiments) Ordinance 《動物(實驗管制)條例》

14. Cancellation of licence or permit
(1) It shall be a condition of every licence, permit or endorsement granted or made under the provisions of this Ordinance that such licence, permit or endorsement may be cancelled at any time by the Licensing Authority on his being satisfied that such licence or permit ought to be cancelled. (Amended 6 of 1994 s. 59)
(2) Notice in writing of any cancellation under subsection (1), containing a statement of the reasons therefor, shall be served by the Licensing Authority either personally or by registered post on the holder of the licence or permit to whom the cancellation relates. (Added 6 of 1994 s. 59)

15. General penalties
Any person who is guilty of an offence under section 3, 4, 5 or 6 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(Replaced 12 of 1964 s. 8. Amended E.R. 5 of 2022)

16. Restriction of prosecutions
Except by or with the consent of the Secretary for Justice, a prosecution under this Ordinance shall not be instituted.
(Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)

17. Appeals
(1) Any person aggrieved by a refusal to issue a licence, endorsement or permit under section 7, 8, 9 or 10, or the cancellation of a licence, permit or endorsement under section 14 may, within 28 days from the date when he was informed of the decision, appeal to the Administrative Appeals Board.
(2) The cancellation of a licence, permit or endorsement that is appealed against under subsection (1) shall be suspended in its operation as from the day on which the appeal is made until such appeal is disposed of, withdrawn or abandoned unless such suspension would, in the opinion of the Licensing Authority, be contrary to the public interest and the notice of the cancellation contains a statement to that effect.
(Replaced 6 of 1994 s. 59)

### Homicide Ordinance 《殺人罪行條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Homicide Ordinance.

2. Abolition of “constructive malice”
(1) Where a person kills another in the course or furtherance of some other offence, the killing shall not amount to murder unless done with the same malice aforethought (express or implied) as is required for a killing to amount to murder when not done in the course or furtherance of another offence.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a killing done in the course or for the purpose of resisting an officer of justice, or of resisting or avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest, or of effecting or assisting an escape or rescue from legal custody, shall be treated as a killing in the course or furtherance of an offence.
[cf. 1957 c. 11 s. 1 U.K.]

3. Persons suffering from diminished responsibility
(1) Where a person kills or is a party to the killing of another, he shall not be convicted of murder if he was suffering from such abnormality of mind (whether arising from a condition of arrested or retarded development of mind or any inherent causes or induced by disease or injury) as substantially impaired his mental responsibility for his acts and omissions in doing or being a party to the killing.
(2) On a charge of murder, it shall be for the defence to prove that the person charged is by virtue of this section not liable to be convicted of murder.
(3) A person who but for this section would be liable, whether as principal or as accessory, to be convicted of murder shall be liable instead to be convicted of manslaughter.
(4) The fact that one party to a killing is by virtue of this section not liable to be convicted of murder shall not affect the question whether the killing amounted to murder in the case of any other party to it.
[cf. 1957 c. 11 s. 2 U.K.]

4. Provocation
Where on a charge of murder there is evidence on which the jury can find that the person charged was provoked (whether by things done or by things said or by both together) to lose his self-control, the question whether the provocation was enough to make a reasonable man do as he did shall be left to be determined by the jury; and in determining that question the jury shall take into account everything both done and said according to the effect which, in their opinion, it would have on a reasonable man.
[cf. 1957 c. 11 s. 3 U.K.]