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renewable for a further month. To exempt any work outside the permitted hours for more than two months and to exempt piling work from the provision of the principal Ordinance, an order by the Governor in Council is necessary.
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If the ban on piling work were extended to cover other construction work using powered mechanical equipment (with certain exceptions), and if the time of the ban were extended to make it applicable from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m., it is expected that more applications for exemption would be made and that some of these would be for periods longer than two months. In order to avoid unduly burdening the Governor in Council with these applications, it is proposed to amend the Summary Offences (Night Work) Regulations to empower the Director of Public Works to issue permits for work, other than piling work, at night and on public holidays for up to three months, renewable for a further three months.
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In order to ensure that full consideration is given to the social implications in cases where exemption over a more lengthy period of time is involved, it is proposed that, in cases where the Director of Public Works intends to issue a permit for more than two months, he would be required to consult the Secretary for the Environ- ment on what he proposed to do. The Secretary for the Environment would either endorse the proposal or refer the matter to the Governor in Council. This procedure would be set out in an administrative directive to the Director of Public Works, issued under clause 4 of the bill, which seeks to add a new section to the principal Ordinance empowering the Governor to give general directions to the Director of Public Works for the purposes of section 13. It is also proposed that all applications for piling work outside the permitted hours would continue to be referred to the Governor in Council in view of the particularly offensive noise created by pile driving.
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The Director of Public Works has advised that to introduce these new restrictions immediately would cause considerable difficulties in connection with building contracts which have already been entered into. It is therefore proposed that the above provisions should come into effect on 1st July 1979, that is two years after their enactment, to allow the construction industry adequate time to complete most existing contracts,
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