### Public Order (Movement of Craft) Order 《公安(航行器開行)令》

1. Citation
This Order may be cited as the Public Order (Movement of Craft) Order.
(E.R. 5 of 2019)

2. Prohibition of movement of craft during specified hours
During the continuance in force of this Order the movement of craft within the areas specified in the Schedule is prohibited within the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. unless the permission in writing of the Commissioner of Police or other officer duly authorized has been given for such movement.
(E.R. 5 of 2019)

### Public Order Ordinance (Designated Public Areas) (Consolidation) Order 《公安條例(指定公眾地點)(綜合)令》

1. Citation
This Order may be cited as the Public Order Ordinance (Designated Public Areas) (Consolidation) Order.
(E.R. 5 of 2019)

2. Designated public areas
The areas specified in the Schedule are designated public areas for the purposes of Part III of the Ordinance.

### Military Installations Closed Areas Order 《軍事設施禁區令》

1. Citation
This order may be cited as the Military Installations Closed Areas Order.

2. Declaration of closed areas
The areas and buildings specified in the First Schedule are declared to be closed areas.

3. Specification of authority or person to appoint guards
The authority or person named in the second column of the Second Schedule is specified as the authority or person who may appoint any person to guard a closed area shown opposite such authority or person in the third column of that Schedule.

### Public Order Ordinance 《公安條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Order Ordinance.

### Public Order Ordinance 《公安條例》

3. Power to prohibit flags, etc.
(1) Any police officer of or above the rank of inspector may—
(a) prohibit the display at a public gathering of any flag, banner or other emblem;
(b) prohibit the owner, tenant, occupier or person in charge of any premises or place, and the owner or person in charge of any vehicle, tramcar, train or vessel from permitting the display of any flag, banner or other emblem on or at the premises, place, vehicle, tramcar, train or vessel,
if such police officer reasonably believes that the display of any flag, banner or emblem is likely to cause or lead to a breach of the peace. (Replaced 31 of 1970 s. 3)
(2) Where a prohibition is issued under subsection (1), any police officer may seize and detain any flag, banner or emblem, and may if reasonably necessary—
(a) enter any premises or place; and
(b) stop and board any vehicle, tramcar, train or vessel,
using such force as may be necessary for these purposes. (Replaced 31 of 1970 s. 3)
(3) Any person who displays or permits the display of any flag, banner or other emblem in contravention of any prohibition issued under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(4) No prosecution for an offence under this section shall be instituted without the consent of the Secretary for Justice. (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)
(Amended E.R. 1 of 2013)

### Public Order Ordinance 《公安條例》

5. Prohibition of quasi-military organizations
(1) If the members or adherents of any society are—
(a) organized or trained or equipped for the purpose of enabling them to be employed in such a manner that such employment usurps, may usurp, tends to usurp or appears to usurp the functions of the police or the Chinese People’s Liberation Army; or (Amended 2 of 2012 s. 3)
(b) organized and trained or organized and equipped for the purpose of enabling them to be employed for the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object, or in such manner as to arouse reasonable apprehension that they are organized and either trained or equipped for that purpose,
then—
(i) any person who is a member or adherent of such society shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 3 years; and
(ii) any person who takes part in the control or management of such society, or in organizing or training or equipping as aforesaid any members or adherents of the society, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 10 years and on summary conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 5 years.
(2) In any criminal proceedings under this section, proof of things done or of words spoken, written or published, whether or not in the presence of a party to the proceedings, by any person taking part in the control or management of a society or in organizing, training or equipping members or adherents of a society shall be admissible as evidence of the purposes for which, or the manner in which, members or adherents of the society (whether those persons or others) were organized or trained or equipped.
(Amended E.R. 1 of 2013)

### Public Order Ordinance 《公安條例》

6. General powers of the Commissioner of Police
(1) If the Commissioner of Police reasonably considers it to be necessary in the interests of national security or public safety, public order or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others, he may, in such manner as he thinks fit, control and direct the conduct of all public gatherings and specify the route by which, and the time at which, any public procession may pass.
(2) The Commissioner of Police may, if he reasonably considers it to be necessary to prevent an imminent threat to the interests of national security or public safety, public order or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others, in such manner as he may think fit, control and direct the extent to which music may be played, or to which music or human speech or any other sound may be amplified, broadcast, relayed, or otherwise reproduced by artificial means, in— 
(a) public places; or
(b) places other than public places if such music, human speech or sound is directed towards persons in public places.
(3) The Commissioner of Police may give such orders as he reasonably considers necessary to achieve the purpose mentioned in subsections (1) and (2).
(Replaced 72 of 1996 s. 2. Amended 119 of 1997 s. 3; 10 of 2008 s. 9)

7. Regulation of public meetings
(1) Subject to this Ordinance, a public meeting may take place if, but only if,—
(a) the Commissioner of Police is notified under section 8 of the intention to hold the meeting; and
(b) the holding of the meeting is not prohibited by the Commissioner of Police under section 9.
(2) This section shall not apply to—
(a) a meeting of not more than 50 persons; (Amended 77 of 1995 s. 6)
(b) a meeting in private premises (whether or not the public or any section of the public are permitted to attend) where the attendance at the meeting does not exceed 500 persons; (Amended 77 of 1995 s. 6)
(c) a meeting in any school registered or provisionally registered or exempted under the Education Ordinance (Cap. 279), or in any college registered under the Post Secondary Colleges Ordinance (Cap. 320), or in any educational establishment established by any Ordinance, if—
(i) the meeting is organized or approved by an accredited society or similar body of such school, college or educational establishment; and
(ii) the meeting is held with the consent of the management of such school, college or educational establishment in accordance with the terms of that consent,

whether or not the public or any section of the public are permitted to attend.