Sand.
CHAPTER 147.
SAND.
To regulate the importation and the removal of sand.
[6th December, 1935.]
[CAP. 147
50 of 1935.
12 of 1938. 22 of 1950.
37 of 1950.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sand Ordinance.
2. (1) No person may take sand from any land, foreshore or sea bed, not under lease from the Crown, without having previously obtained a permit or sale and removal permit applicable to such sand from the Controller of Stores.
(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 subsection (1) of section 2, or a written removal permit from the Controller of Stores 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. The Controller of Stores and any public officer authorized by him, either generally or specially, shall have power to arrest and detain any person whom he may have cause to suspect of having committed, or of being about to commit, or of intending to commit any offence against this Ordinance.
5. In respect of sand in the New Territories (other than New Kowloon), the removal of sand from any place in the New Territories (other than New Kowloon), and the...
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