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RACE DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE 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