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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 30, 1937.
Penalties
and for- feiture.
Repeal of Ordinances
No. 5 of
22.-(1) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made there- under shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(2) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to forfeit any severed tree or plant or portion of a tree or plant with regard to which any contravention of any such provision or regula- tion or of any enactment specified in the Second Schedule shall have been committed.
23. The Forest Fires Prevention Ordinance, 1917, the Crown Land Preservation Ordinance, 1917, the Plants 1917, No. 6 Ordinance, 1920, the Forest Officers Ordinance, 1923, and
the Prohibited Areas Ordinance, 1927 are repealed.
of 1917,
No. 11 of
1920, No. 32
of 1923,
No. 12 of 1927.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 28th day of July, 1937.
A. G. CLARKE,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.