Crimes Ordinance

Crimes Ordinance
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Long title An ordinance to consolidate certain penal enactments.
Citation	Cap. 200
Enacted by	Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Enacted	22 October 1971
Legislative history
Introduced by	Attorney General Denys Tudor Emil Roberts
Introduced	19 November 1971
First reading	3 November 1971
Second reading	3 November 1971
Third reading	17 November 1971
Related legislation
Coinage Offences Ordinance 1964 Criminal Intimidation Ordinance 1964 Explosive Substances Ordinance 1966 False Personation Ordinance 1964 Falsification of Documents Ordinance 1964 Forgery Ordinance 1964 Perjury Ordinance 1970 Punishment of Incest Ordinance 1964 Sedition Ordinance 1970
Status: Current legislation

The Crimes Ordinance (Cap. 200), last amended in 1972, is a law of Hong Kong relating to certain consolidated penal enactments. Like Macau, 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 1964 (Cap. 204)
• Criminal Intimidation Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 205)
• Explosive Substances Ordinance 1966 (Cap. 206)
• False Personation Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 207)
• Falsification of Documents Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 208)
• Forgery Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 209)
• Perjury Ordinance 1970 (Cap. 214)
• Punishment of Incest Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 216)
• Sedition Ordinance 1970 (Cap. 217)
• Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (Instrument A305)

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

• Legal system of Macau
• Law of Hong Kong

Penal/criminal codes from other parts of China:

• Penal Code of Macau

Penal/criminal codes from similar Common law jurisdictions:

• Crimes Act
• Criminal Code (Canada)
• English Criminal Code

External links

• The full text of Crimes Ordinance 1971 at Wikisource
• Crimes Ordinance