(C.S.O. 1342/25).
1980-
A BILL
[No. 19:-19.11.35.-3.]
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Short title.
Permit required for removal of sand from land, fore- shore or
INTITULED
An Ordinance to regulate the importation and the removal
of sand.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1935.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sand Ordinance,
2.- (1) No person may take sand from any land, fore- shore or sea bed, not under lease from the Crown, without having previously obtained a written removal permit or sale and removal permit from the Director of Public sea-bed, not Works applicable to such sand.
under lease from the Crown.
Permit required
where any sand in
excess of two hundred- weights is imported or removed by junk, lighter,
truck or lorry.
Penalties.
(2) Any such permit may prescribe the quantity of sand which may be taken and the places from and to which it. may be removed and any such sale and removal permit may also prescribe the price to be paid for the sand to which it relates.
3.-(1) No person may in any junk or lighter, or in any truck or lorry, bring into the Colony or remove from one part of the Colony to another any sand, wherever obtained and whatever its ultimate destination, in excess of two hundredweights, unless he has in his possession a permit, issued under section 2 (1), or a written removal permit from the Director of Public Works issued under this section, applicable to such sand.
(2) Any removal permit issued under this section may prescribe the quantity of sand which may be removed and the places from and to which it may be removed.
4. Any person who contravenes any provision of section 2 (1), or section 3 (1), or who brings into the Colony or takes or removes more sand than is prescribed by the permit or sand from or to any place other than the place or places, if any, prescribed in the permit, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprison- ment for any term not exceeding six months.
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