The Crimes Ordinance (), last amended in 1972, is a law of Hong Kong relating to certain consolidated penal enactments. Like
Macau
Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...
, penal and criminal law in Hong Kong is different from what is applied in China.
History
The ordinance consolidated the original Crimes Ordinance of 1971 with several others ordinances:
* Coinage Offences Ordinance (Cap. 204)
* Criminal Intimidation Ordinance (Cap. 205)
* Explosive Substances Ordinance (Cap. 206)
* False Personation Ordinance (Cap. 207)
* Falsification of Documents Ordinance (Cap. 208)
* Forgery Ordinance (Cap. 209)
* Perjury Ordinance (Cap. 214)
* Punishment of Incest Ordinance (Cap. 216)
* Sedition Ordinance (Cap. 217)
Current version
The current provisions of the ordinance includes:
* Piracy
* Intimidation
* Perjury
* Incest
* Explosive substances
* Unmarked Plastic Explosives
* Criminal Damage to Property
* Forgery and related offences
* False Certification and personation
* Counterfeiting and kindred offences
* Sexual and Related Offences
* Preliminary offences
* Miscellaneous Offences
See also
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Legal system of Macau
Macau law is broadly based on law of Portugal, Portuguese law, and therefore part of the civil law (legal system), civil law tradition of continental European legal systems. Portuguese law is itself highly influenced by German law. However, many ...
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Law of Hong Kong
Penal/criminal codes from other parts of China:
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Penal Code of Macau
Penal/criminal codes from similar Common law jurisdictions:
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Crimes Act
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Criminal Code (Canada)
The ''Criminal Code'' () is a law of the Parliament of Canada that codifies most, but not all, criminal offences and criminal procedure in Canada. Its official long title is ''An Act respecting the Criminal Law'' (French: ). It is indexed in t ...
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English Criminal Code
External links
*{{wikisource-inline, Crimes Ordinance 1971, single=true
Crimes Ordinance
Hong Kong legislation
Crime in Hong Kong
Criminal codes