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[No. 19-20.5.35.-1.]
(C.S.O. 1342/25).
A BILL
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:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sand Ordinance, Short title. 1935.
removal of
2.-(1) No person may take sand from any land, fore- Permit shore or sea bed, not under lease from the Crown, without required for having previously obtained
a written removal permit sand from or sale and removal permit from the Director of Public land, fore- Works applicable to such sand.
(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.
shore or
sea-bed, not under lease
Crown.
required
hundred-
3.-(1) No person may in any junk or lighter, or in Permit any truck or lorry, bring into the Colony or remove from where any one part of the Colony to another any sand, wherever sand in obtained and whatever its ultimate destination, in excess of excess of one one hundredweight, unless he has in his possession a permit, weight is 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.
imported or removed by junk,
lighter, truck or lorry.
4. Any person who contravenes any provision of Penalties. 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.
5. The Buildings Ordinance, 1935, is amended--
Amendments
to Ordinance
(a) by the deletion of the word and comma "sand," in No. 18 of the second line of section 123.
1935, s. 123 and Table M.