Prevention and Control of Disease (Prohibition on Group Gathering) Regulation
(4) A person who, in purported compliance with a requirement made under subsection (2), supplies any information that the person knows to be false or misleading commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 3.
(5) In this section—
proof of identity (身分證明文件) has the same meaning as in section 17B of the Immigration Ordinance (Cap. 115).
10. Power to disperse prohibited group gathering etc.
(1) An authorized officer may disperse a gathering in a public place if—
- (a) the officer reasonably believes that the gathering is a prohibited group gathering; or
- (b) the gathering is a dispersable gathering within the meaning of subsection (2).
(2) For subsection (1)(b), if the distance between any participant of a gathering in a public place and any participant of another gathering in the place is less than 1.5 m, and the total number of participants of the gatherings is more than 4, then each of the gatherings is a dispersable gathering.
(3) For the purposes of exercising a power conferred by subsection (1), an authorized officer may—
- (a) give any order that the officer reasonably considers necessary or expedient;
- (b) use any force that is reasonably necessary to disperse a gathering that the officer reasonably believes to be a prohibited group gathering; and
