Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 2021
Ord. No. 35 of 2021
Section 3
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- disposal order (處置令) means an order made under section 159AAL(1);
- Magistrates Ordinance (《裁判官條例》) means the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap. 227);
- specified offence (指明罪行) means an offence, or an alleged offence, under section 159AAD or 159AAE;
- subject person (處置令對象), in relation to a disposal order, means a person described in section 159AAM(2);
- summons (傳票) means a summons issued under section 159AAM(2).
- 159AAL. Disposal order
- (1) A magistrate may, on application made in the name of the Secretary for Justice at any time during any criminal proceedings in relation to a specified offence concerning an image and subject to subsections (3) and (4) and section 159AAM, order a person, whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere, to take reasonable steps to remove, delete or destroy, or to cause the removal, deletion or destruction of, the image within a period to be specified by the magistrate.
- (2) A magistrate may still deal with an application under subsection (1) and make the disposal order even if the criminal proceedings to which the application relates do not take place before a magistrate.
- (3) In an application made under subsection (1) for a disposal order—
- (a) in relation to an image proposed to be made subject to the disposal order—
