The Prevention of Child Pornography Ordinance (Cap. 579) comes into operation
on 19 December 2003.
Under Article 34 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,
which applies to Hong Kong, children should be protected from all forms of sexual
exploitation and sexual abuse. The new Ordinance offers better protection to
children against sexual exploitation.
The Ordinance prohibits child pornography, pornographic performance by children
and child sex tourism. It strengthens protection to children by criminalizing
the printing, making, producing, reproducing, copying, importing, exporting,
publishing, possessing and advertising of child pornography.
For details of the Ordinance, please visit Security Bureau's website at www.info.gov.hk/sb
For enquiry, please call the Police hotline at 28660082. For urgent cases, please
report to the nearest police station or dial 999.