CAP. 264]
Service of notices.
Penalty for obstruction.
Amendment of forms.
Savings.
(Cap. 124.)
(Cap. 123.)
War Damaged Sites.
11. Any notice required to be served under this Ordinance may be served either personally or by sending the same by registered post to the usual or last known place of business or residence of the person to be served and the date of such service shall be taken to be the date that such personal service is effected or date of the certificate that such notice has been delivered to the post office as the case may be: Provided that all notices to be served under this Ordinance or to be published in the Gazette shall be so served or published together with a translation thereof in Chinese.
12. Any person who obstructs or impedes in the execution of his duties or authority under this Ordinance any person authorized by the Director to enter any premises for the purposes thereof shall, in addition to any other punishment to which he may be liable under any other law, be liable to a fine of fifty dollars and to imprisonment for one month, provided that warning is first given verbally or otherwise-
(a) that clearance of the site has to be effected under the provisions of this Ordinance; and
(b) that such obstruction or impediment would be an offence.
13. The Director may, with the consent of the Governor, sanction such amendments of the forms contained in the Schedule as he may deem necessary or expedient, and any form so amended shall be valid and sufficient for the purposes of this Ordinance.
14. The provisions of this Ordinance shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers conferred by or under any enactment, including in particular the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935 (15 of 1935), and the Building Ordinance, and all such powers may be exercised in the same manner and by the same authority as if this Ordinance had not been made, nor shall anything in this Ordinance be construed as derogating in any way from any rights or powers of the Crown or liabilities of other parties conferred, reserved, or imposed by Ordinance, law, deed, agreement, or custom in existence immediately before the coming into
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