RACE DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE
Ord. No. 29 of 2008
A1263
Goods, facilities, services and premises
27. Discrimination in provision of goods, facilities or services
(1) It is unlawful for any person (“the first-mentioned person”) concerned with the provision (for payment or not) of goods, facilities or services to the public or a section of the public to discriminate against another person (“the second-mentioned person”) who seeks to obtain or use those goods, facilities or services—
- (a) by refusing, or deliberately omitting to provide, the second-mentioned person with any of them; or
- (b) by refusing or deliberately omitting to provide the second-mentioned person with goods, facilities or services of the like quality, in the like manner and on the like terms as are normal in the first-mentioned person’s case in relation to other members of the public or (where the second-mentioned person belongs to a section of the public) to other members of that section.
(2) The following are examples of the facilities and services referred to in subsection (1)—
- (a) access to and use of any place which members of the public or a section of the public are permitted to enter;
- (b) accommodation in a hotel, guesthouse or other similar establishment;
- (c) facilities by way of banking or insurance or for grants, loans, credit or finance;
- (d) facilities for education;
- (e) facilities for entertainment, recreation or refreshment;
- (f) facilities for transport or travel;
- (g) the services of any profession or trade;
- (h) the services of—
- (i) any department of the Government; or
- (ii) any undertaking by or of the Government.
28. Discrimination in disposal or management of premises
(1) It is unlawful for a person, in relation to premises in Hong Kong of which that person has power to dispose, to discriminate against another person—
- (a) in the terms on which the person offers that other person the premises;
- (b) by refusing the other person’s application for those premises; or
