[FabHK]

It's great that you're looking into legislation. Touts are annoying. I've lived in Hong Kong for a while, and once lost my iPhone. Getting a new one from Apple was basically impossible, because everything for open sale was snapped up immediately by very long queues of people paid to stand in very long queues and pick up 2 iPhones, which were then slipped over the border to go on the Chinese gray market.

I ended up paying some inflated price at a dodgy computer centre (as the alternative would have been to take out another 2 year phone service subscription).

However, I believe you that regulating this appropriately is complex. I'm not sure, for example, what Apple could have done better (beyond their 2-per-customer-limit, apart from raising prices or magically producing more). Lotteries might be one way (and that's what Apple did later in HK, I believe).

(And, BTW, cool to have a MEP here :-)