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Police Commercial Crime Bureau detected a case of unauthorized sale of tickets through the Internet yesterday (September 3).
Technology Crime Division (TCD) of Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB) received information of people putting up admission tickets of Hong Kong Disneyland for sale through online auction platforms.
After investigation, TCD officers executed a search warrant at a premise in Tsing Yi and identify a 30-year-old man for unauthorized sale of tickets.
He will be summoned for an offence of unauthorized sale of tickets.
A Police spokesman warned members of the public not to participate in any ticket-scalping activities, including the Disneyland admission tickets.
According to Section 6 of the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance, no person shall sell, or offer or exhibit or have in his possession for sale, or solicit the purchase of, any ticket or voucher authorising or purporting to authorise admission to any place of public entertainment licensed under this Ordinance in any public thoroughfare, or in the entrance hall of, or approaches to, any such place as aforesaid, except at a box-office, booth, turnstile or counter appointed by the proprietor or manager of such place or by the organiser of the entertainment, exhibition, performance, amusement, game or sport held therein.
Neither can a person sell, or offer or exhibit or have in his possession for sale, or solicit the purchase of, any ticket or voucher authorising or purporting to authorise admission to any place of public entertainment licensed under this Ordinance at a price exceeding the amount fixed by such proprietor, manager or organiser to be charged therefor, inclusive of the duty, if any, payable.
Any person who contravenes the provisions shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of $2,000.
The Technology Crime Division (TCD) of the Commercial Crime Bureau will monitor any on-line ticket-scalping activities and will strictly enforce the law.
Ends/Sunday, September 4, 2005
Issued at HKT 01:03
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