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SAND.
[A.D. 1935.
Permit required
where any sand in excess of
two hundred- weights is imported or removed by
junk,
lighter,
truck or lorry.
Penalties.
Amendments to Ordinance No. 18 of 1935, s. 123 and Table M.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 41 of 1934.
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.
5. The Buildings Ordinance, 1935, is amended-
(a) by the deletion of the word and comma "sand," in the second line of section 123.
(b) by the deletion of the word and comma "sand," in the first line of regulation 1 in Schedule M.
6. The Sand Ordinance, 1934, is repealed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this 5th day of December, 1935.
H. R. BUTTERS,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.