Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Name: Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance
Author: Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (2007)

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“Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance”, published in 2007, is a work by Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It explores elements such as the Appeal Board, message and electronic address.

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (2007)

“ For the purposes of any legal proceedings, if a commercial electronic message is sent and at the relevant time the telecommunications device, service or network from which it was sent was controlled by a person without the knowledge of the owners or authorized users of the telecommunications device, service or network, the owners or authorized users shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed not to have sent the message and not to have authorized the message to be sent. ”

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (2007)

“ Where a magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is, or is likely to be, in or on any premises or place any telecommunications device or other thing that is or that contains, or that is likely to be or to contain, evidence of the commission of a specified offence, the magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing the Authority or an authorized officer to enter and search the premises or place. ”

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (2007)

“ In any proceedings for an offence under this Ordinance brought against any person in respect of an act or conduct alleged to have been done or engaged in, as the case may be, by an employee or agent of that person, it is a defence for that person to prove that he took such steps as were practicable to prevent the employee or agent from doing the act or engaging in the conduct, or from doing or engaging in, in the course of his employment or authority, acts or conduct, as the case may be, of that description. ”

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (2007)

“ Use of approved codes of practice in legal proceedings
(1) A failure on the part of any person to observe any provision of an approved code of practice shall not of itself render that person liable to legal proceedings. ”

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (2007)

“ In the hearing of an appeal, every question before the Appeal Board shall be determined by the opinion of the majority of the members hearing the appeal except a question of law which shall be determined by the presiding officer, and in the case of an equality of votes the presiding officer shall have a casting vote. ”

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (2007)

“ No person to whom an unsubscribe request is sent under section 9 (commercial electronic messages must contain unsubscribe facility) shall use any information obtained thereby other than for the purpose of complying with the requirements of that section or section 10 (commercial electronic messages must not be sent after unsubscribe request is sent) . ”

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (2007)

“ In the event that the Chairman and each Deputy Chairman has a direct or indirect interest in an appeal, the Chief Executive may select a panel member who is legally qualified and who does not have a direct or indirect interest in the appeal to act as presiding officer. ”

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (2007)

“ The Chief Executive shall appoint a legally qualified person to be the Chairman of the Appeal Board and such other legally qualified persons as he thinks fit to be Deputy Chairmen of the Appeal Board. ”

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (2007)

“ This Ordinance may be cited as the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) , this Ordinance shall come into operation on the day on which it is published in the Gazette.
(3) Part 2, sections 31, 32, 33, 38, 39 and 58 and sections 1 (2) and 2 (2) and Table 2 of Schedule 1 shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology by notice published in the Gazette. ”

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