### Summary Offences Ordinance 《簡易程序治罪條例》

4A. Obstruction of public places
Any person who without lawful authority or excuse sets out or leaves, or causes to be set out or left, any matter or thing which obstructs, inconveniences or endangers, or may obstruct, inconvenience or endanger, any person or vehicle in a public place shall be liable to a fine at level 4 or to imprisonment for 3 months.
(Replaced 54 of 1972 s. 18. Amended E.R. 1 of 2021; 23 of 2023 s. 6)

4B. Objects dropped from buildings
(1) If anything is dropped or allowed to fall from any building to the danger or injury of any person in or near a public place, the person who drops that thing or allows it to fall commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3 and imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) If anything is dropped or allowed to fall from any building in the course of the construction, repair or decoration of the building or part thereof, to the danger or injury of any person in or near a public place, the principal contractor on the site and the contractor carrying out the construction, repair or decoration commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 5 and imprisonment for 1 year.
(3) It shall not be a defence to a charge against a contractor under subsection (2) that the person who dropped the thing or allowed it to fall has not been prosecuted or that the thing was dropped or allowed to fall without the consent or knowledge of the contractor, but a contractor so charged shall not be convicted if he proves to the satisfaction of the court that he could not reasonably have prevented the thing being dropped or allowed to fall to the danger or injury of any person in or near a public place or that reasonable measures had been taken by him or another person to prevent such an occurrence.
(Added 61 of 1977 s. 3. Amended E.R. 1 of 2021)

### Summary Offences Ordinance 《簡易程序治罪條例》

4C. Permits for lion dances, etc.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), any person who organizes or participates in a lion dance, dragon dance or unicorn dance, or any attendant martial arts display, in a public place, save under and in accordance with the conditions of any such general or special permit as the Commissioner of Police in his absolute discretion may issue, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended E.R. 1 of 2021)
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any person exempted by the Commissioner of Police.
(3) No prosecution shall be brought under subsection (1) without the consent of the Secretary for Justice. (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)
(Added 11 of 1981 s. 2)

### Summary Offences Ordinance 《簡易程序治罪條例》

4D. Marine littering
(1) Any person who without lawful authority or excuse deposits or causes or permits to be deposited any litter into the waters of Hong Kong or in any place (not being a place in respect of which management or control is vested in a public officer or public body) from which it is likely that the litter will be swept by the tide into the waters of Hong Kong commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended 33 of 1989 ss. 3 & 5; E.R. 1 of 2021)
(2) Where an offence is committed under subsection (1) from any vessel, or from any place or premises, (not being a place or premises in respect of which management or control is vested in a public officer or public body) the owner or master of the vessel or the proprietor or occupier of the place or premises, or the part thereof from which the offence was committed shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 1 year. (Amended 33 of 1989 s. 3; E.R. 1 of 2021)
(3) It shall be no defence to a charge against the owner or master of a vessel or the proprietor or occupier of any place or premises under subsection (2) that the person who committed the offence under subsection (1) has not been prosecuted or that the litter was deposited without his knowledge or consent, but he shall not be convicted if he proves that the commission of the offence was due to an accident or some other cause beyond his control and that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence.
(4) This section shall not apply to the discharge of sewage from a vessel into the waters of Hong Kong in the usual course of the operation of the sewerage system of the vessel. (Amended 33 of 1989 s. 5)
(Added 38 of 1981 s. 4)

### Summary Offences Ordinance 《簡易程序治罪條例》

5. Offences by carriers of nightsoil and pigwash
(1) Any person who within any district to which any scavenging and conservancy bylaws apply—
(a) places in or upon or conveys along or across any public place any excretal matter except between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. except in strong substantial buckets with closely fitting covers and of such pattern as may be approved by the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene; (Amended 78 of 1999 s. 7)
(b) places in or upon or conveys along or across any public place any pigwash except between midnight and 9 a.m. and except in strong substantial buckets with closely fitting covers and of such pattern as may be approved by the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene; or conveys such pigwash in any boat or vessel except in such buckets or, if in bulk, in water-tight tarred holds with closely fitting hatches; (Amended 78 of 1999 s. 7)
(c) empties, discharges, deposits or places any excretal matter or pigwash in, over or upon any gully, drain, sewer or any inlet thereto;
(d) empties, discharges, deposits or conveys any excretal matter in or to any place other than a conservancy boat;
(e) brings any excretal matter from any premises or place situated outside any district to which this section applies to any premises or place situated within any such district;
(f) after removal of any pigwash from any premises empties, discharges, places or conveys it in or to any place except a licensed pigsty,
shall be liable to a fine at level 1. (Amended 11 of 1949 s. 4; E.R. 1 of 2021)
(2) In this section, excretal matter (排泄物) shall include urine and nightsoil.

6. Street cries for buying or selling
Any person who uses or utters cries for the purpose of buying or selling any article whatsoever, or who makes any noise whatsoever with the object of disposing of or attracting attention to his goods, wares or trade shall be liable to a fine at level 1.
(Amended 11 of 1949 s. 5; E.R. 1 of 2021)