Crimes Ordinance
Part VIII
8-2
Section 59
Cap. 200
Part VIII
Criminal Damage to Property
(Format changes—E.R. 4 of 2017)
59.
Interpretation
(1) In this Part, property (財產) means—
(a) property of a tangible nature, whether real or personal,
including money and—
(i) including wild creatures which have been tamed
or are ordinarily kept in captivity, and any other
wild creatures or their carcasses if, but only if,
they have been reduced into possession which has
not been lost or abandoned or are in the course of
being reduced into possession; but
(ii) not including mushrooms growing wild on any
land or flowers, fruit or foliage of a plant growing
wild on any land; or
(b) any program, or data, held in a computer or in a
computer storage medium, whether or not the program
or data is property of a tangible nature.
In this subsection, mushroom (菌類植物) includes any
fungus and plant (植物) includes any shrub or tree. (Replaced
23 of 1993 s. 3)
(1A) In this Part, to destroy or damage any property (摧毀或損
壞財產) in relation to a computer includes the misuse of a
computer.
In this subsection, misuse of a computer (誤用電腦) means—
(a) to cause a computer to function other than as it has
been established to function by or on behalf of its
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16.11.2017
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