Enclosure No. 4
A BILL
To
Amend the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health and Urban Short title. Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance 1980.
2. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after Part X, the Addition of following new Part-
new Part XA. (Cap. 132.)
Interpretation of this Part.
Proposal of private street
name.
Declaration of street name.
“PART XA
STREET NAMES
111A. In this Part, unless the context otherwise re-
quires- "private street" means a street on land held under Crown lease, licence or otherwise from the Crown or on land over which the Crown has granted or reserved a right of way;
"street" includes a private street and any area of land declared to be a street by the Director of Public Works.
111B. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a
(2), a person may propose
(a) a name of a private street that has not been named;
ог
(b) a change of name of a private street that has been
named,
by notice in writing sent to the Authority.
(2) No person other than the owner of the land that is held under or by virtue of a Crown lease and on which the private street is situated may make a proposal under subsection (1) in connexion with that private street.
(3) The Authority shall, after the receipt of a proposal under subsection (1), consider the application and shall-
(a) make a declaration under section 111C(1)(a) or (b),
as the case may be; or
(b) refuse to make a declaration.
(4) Where the Authority under subsection (3) has refused to make a declaration, the Authority shall serve notice of its decision, setting out reasons for its decision, upon the person who made application under subsection (1).
(5) A person upon whom a notice under subsection (4) has been served may, within 30 days of the date of that notice, appeal against the decision of the Authority by way of petition to the Governor in Council whose decision shall be final.
111C. (1) Notwithstanding section 111B, the Authority, by declaration in the Gazette, may-