HONG KONG
LEGAL REPORT
Enclosure No. 2
THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES (AMENDMENT)(NO. 2)
ORDINANCE 1980
(No. 40 of 1980)
The object of this Ordinance is to provide new powers for the control of street naming, which formerly were subject to informal and unenforceable controls.
2. Subject to publication and to an appeal procedure to the Governor in Council, the Urban Council and the Secretary for the New Territories, are empowered to declare new street names and change existing ones. In addition they are able to declare names of private streets where the owners, who are also empowered to propose names, do not or are unwilling to do so. Should an owner propose a name which the Urban Council or Secretary for the New Territories considers unacceptable then, subject to an appeal procedure, the appropriate authority may refuse to make a declaration naming the street in question.
3. Offences have been created for the unauthorized marking or displaying of street names.
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4. Before the Governor assented to the Bill in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, the Attorney advised that he could properly do so.
// July 1980.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,,
HONG KONG,
J.H. Mathews
Law Draftsman (Acting).