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487 PDFTitle:DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCEGazette Number:E.R. 1 of 2013
Section:40Heading:Extent of Part 4Version Date:25/04/2013

Extent

(1) Section 26(1)-
        (a) shall not apply to goods, services or facilities outside Hong Kong except as provided in subsections (2) and (3); and
        (b) shall not apply to facilities by way of banking or insurance or for grants, loans, credit or finance, where the facilities are for a purpose to be carried out, or in connection with risks wholly or mainly arising, outside Hong Kong.
(2) Section 26(1) applies to the provision of facilities for travel outside Hong Kong where the refusal or omission occurs in Hong Kong or on a ship, aircraft or dynamically supported craft referred to in subsection (3).
(3) Section 26(1) applies on and in relation to-
        (a) any ship registered in Hong Kong;
        (b) any aircraft or dynamically supported craft registered in Hong Kong and operated by a person who has his principal place of business, or is ordinarily resident, in Hong Kong;
        (c) any ship, aircraft or dynamically supported craft belonging to or possessed by the Government,
even if the ship, aircraft or dynamically supported craft is outside Hong Kong.
(4) This section shall not render unlawful an act done in or over a place outside Hong Kong, or in or over that place's territorial waters, if any, for the purpose of complying with the laws of that place.
(5) Section 24 shall not apply to benefits, services or facilities outside Hong Kong except-
        (a) travel on a ship registered in Hong Kong;
        (b) benefits, services or facilities provided on a ship so registered.
(Amended E.R. 1 of 2013)
(Enacted 1995)