### Electricity Ordinance 《電力條例》

56. Major offences
(1) A person who contravenes section 8(1), 12(1), 19(1) or (2), 20(1) or (3), 29(2), 31(1) or (2), 34(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) or (7) or 35(1) commits an offence. (Amended 12 of 1997 s. 9)
(2) A person who, without authorization from the supplier, the Director or the appeal board reconnects or causes or knowingly allows the reconnection of an electrical installation disconnected under section 16(1), 17(1) or 18(1) commits an offence.
(3) A person who connects or causes or knowingly allows a person to connect an electrical installation to another person’s electrical installation without his consent, commits an offence.
(4) A person who intentionally interferes with an electricity supplier’s electrical installation without the supplier’s consent, commits an offence.
(5) An owner who fails to comply with a condition of an exemption made under section 9 commits an offence.
(6) An electricity supplier who fails to comply with a notice of the Director under section 11(2) commits an offence.
(7) A person who without reasonable excuse—
(a) fails to attend when required; or
(b) refuses to give or withholds evidence or documents required,
under section 28, 41(1)(a) or (b), 42(4) or 47(1)(a) or (b) commits an offence.
(8) Where a corporation commits an offence under this Ordinance, each director and officer of the corporation is guilty of the offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances.
(9) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable to a fine at level 5 on a first conviction and a fine at level 6 on a subsequent conviction for the same offence and in either case is liable to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended E.R. 7 of 2020)

56A. Penalty for supplying a prohibited product
A person who contravenes section 29(1)(a) commits an offence and is liable—
(a) on first conviction, to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 1 year; and
(b) on subsequent conviction, to a fine of $500,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(Added 12 of 1997 s. 10)

### Electricity Ordinance 《電力條例》

56B. Defence of due diligence
(1) It is a defence in a proceeding against a person for an offence under section 56A or section 55(1) regarding a contravention of section 29(1)(b) if the person charged shows that he took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.
(2) Where in any proceedings the defence under subsection (1) involves an allegation that the commission of the offence was due—
(a) to the act or default of another person; or
(b) to reliance on information given by another,
the person charged is not, without the leave of the court, entitled to rely on the defence unless, not less than 7 clear working days before the hearing of the proceedings, he has served a notice on the person bringing the proceedings giving such information identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who committed the act or default or gave the information that was in the possession of the person serving the notice at the time he served it.
(3) A person is not entitled to rely on the defence under subsection (1) by reason of his reliance on information given by another person, unless he shows that it was reasonable in all the circumstances for him to have relied on the information, having regard in particular—
(a) to the steps which he took, and those which might reasonably have been taken, for the purpose of verifying the information; and
(b) to whether he had any reason to disbelieve the information.
(Added 12 of 1997 s. 10)

57. Limitation period
A prosecution under this Ordinance shall be commenced within 6 months after the offence becomes known to the Director.

58. Evidence by certificate
A document purporting to be signed or issued by or on behalf of the Director under this Ordinance is admissible in evidence without proof of the signature or that it was issued by or on behalf of the Director and is, in the absence of contrary evidence, proof of the facts stated in it.

### Electricity Supply (Special Areas) Regulations 《電力供應(特別地區)規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Electricity Supply (Special Areas) Regulations.

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
company (公司) means any person or any body of persons corporate or unincorporate by whom electricity is supplied to a special area;
company’s installation (公司裝置) means any of a company’s plant, equipment, apparatus, fittings or appliances used for the purposes of generating, transmitting, distributing or supplying electricity to a special area;
consumer (用戶) means a person who has registered with a company for the supply of electricity by the company within a special area;
consumer’s installation (用戶裝置) means any consumer’s wires and fixed electrical equipment and apparatus connected to the consumer’s wires;
consumer’s wires (用戶電線) means any electric lines which are connected to the service lines of a company at the company’s meter terminals;
electricity (電力) means electricity, electric current or any like agency; (L.N. 216 of 1990)
special area (特別地區) means a special area designated under section 59(2) of the Ordinance. (L.N. 216 of 1990)
(69 of 1999 s. 6)

3. Application
These regulations shall apply to and in respect of special areas.

4. Responsibility of company for company’s installation
(1) A company shall be responsible for ensuring that the company’s installation is maintained in a safe condition and in all respects fit for supplying electricity.
(2) Any company which contravenes this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty of $100 for each day during which the offence continues. (E.R. 6 of 2021)

5. Responsibility of consumer for consumer’s installation
(1) A consumer shall be responsible for ensuring that the consumer’s installation belonging to him or used by him or under his control is maintained in a safe condition and in all respects fit for supplying electricity.
(2) Any person who contravenes this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for 3 months and a fine at level 1 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty of $100 for each day during which the offence continues. (E.R. 6 of 2021)