Understanding the Ordinance:

• No agent (usually an employee) shall solicit or accept any advantage without the permission of his principal when conducting his principal's affairs or business; the offeror of the advantage is also guilty of an offence.
• "Advantage" includes money, gifts, loans, commissions, offices, contracts, services, favours and discharge of liability in whole or in part, but does not include entertainment.
• "Entertainment" means the provision of food or drink, for consumption on the occasion when it is provided, and of any other entertainment provided at the same time, for example singing and dancing.

Text of Prevention of Bribery Ordinance