Other Related Ordinances

In many cases, although no explicit reference to the cyber environment is made, the relevant legislation may be interpreted to cover both the physical and the virtual worlds. For example, the provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance are equally applicable to the cyber environment as the physical environment.

Many other legislative provisions refer to "computer" or similar terms. Some examples are set out below.

Table showing related other related ordinance

Law	Provisions
S. 20, Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8) S. 22A, Cap. 8 S. 54, Cap. 8	making copy of entry in banker's record kept by means of a computer acceptable as evidence making documentary evidence from computer records acceptable in criminal proceedings including computer generated records within the meaning of "records"
S. 2, Securities (Insider Dealing) Ordinance (Cap. 395)	including in the definition of "document" any form of computer input and output
S. 2, Land Survey Ordinance (Cap. 473)	including in the definition of "field note" a print-out from an electronic data recorder
S. 10, Protection of Non-Government Certificates of Origin Ordinance (Cap. 324)	empowering an authorised officer to demand any information contained in a computer to be produced in a form which can be taken away and which is either visible or legible
S. 83, Securities Ordinance (Cap. 333)	creating an offence for any person who wilfully stores false material particulars or falsifies any entry or destroys records in an electronic device
S. 13B, Smoking (Public Health) Ordinance (Cap. 371)	prohibiting the placing of tobacco advertisements on the Internet
S.3, Prevention of Child Pornography Ordinance (Cap. 579)	Creating offences for the printing, making, producing, reproducing, copying, importing, exporting, publishing, possessing and advertising of child pornography (child pornography includes computer-generated image or visual depiction made or generated by electronic means, etc.)

Source: Inter-departmental Working Group on Computer Related Crime Report