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Chapter: | 212
![]() | Title: | OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ORDINANCE | Gazette Number: | |
| Section: | 32 | Heading: | Placing wood, etc., on a railway with intent to endanger passengers | Version Date: | 30/06/1997 |
(1) Any person who unlawfully and maliciously puts or throws upon or across any railway any wood, stone, or other matter or thing, or unlawfully and maliciously takes up, removes, or displaces any rail, sleeper, or other matter or thing belonging to any railway, or unlawfully and maliciously turns, moves, or diverts any points or other machinery belonging to any railway, or unlawfully and maliciously makes or shows, hides or removes, any signal or light upon or near to any railway, or unlawfully and maliciously does or causes to be done any other matter or thing, with intent, in any of the cases aforesaid, to endanger the safety of any person travelling or being upon such railway, shall be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 14 years. (Amended 30 of 1911 s. 2; 39 of 1954 Second Schedule; 50 of 1991 s. 4) [cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 32 U.K.]
(2) Any person who unlawfully and maliciously throws or causes to fall or strike, at, against, into, or upon any engine, tender, carriage, or truck used upon any railway, any wood, stone, or other matter or thing, with intent to injure or endanger the safety of any person being in or upon such engine, tender, carriage, or truck, or in or upon any other engine, tender, carriage, or truck of any train of which such first-mentioned engine, tender, carriage, or truck shall form part, shall be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 14 years. (Amended 30 of 1911 s. 2; 50 of 1991 s. 4) [cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 33 U.K.]
(3) Any person who, by any unlawful act, or by any wilful omission or neglect, endangers or causes to be endangered the safety of any person conveyed or being in or likely to be in or upon or near to a railway, or aids or assists therein, shall be guilty of an offence triable either summarily or upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 2 years. (Amended 30 of 1911 s. 2; 22 of 1950 s. 3; 50 of 1991 s. 4) [cf. 1861 c. 100 s. 34 U.K.]
(4) For the purposes of this section, "railway" (鐵路) includes "tramway" (電車軌道).