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Council, the Director of Urban Services, may in his or its discretion order that the following amounts shall be added to the sum claimed and recovered therewith-
(4) in be case of default exceeding thirty days, five per cent of
the amount in default;
(b) in the case of default exceeding sixty days, ten per cent of
the amount in default,
(5) The payment of such sum by any person shall be withou prejudice to any right to recover the same, or any part thereof, from any person otherwise liable in respect of the matter in relation to which such certificate was issued.
(6) Any sum which any public officer or public body is entitled to recover under the provisions of this Ordinance may be recovered by such officer or body, and, where the public body is the Urban Council, by the Director of Urban Services, summarily as a civil debi due to the Crown or as a simple contract debt due to the Crown in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(7) Any summons or writ issued in connexion with the recovery of any such sum shall be taken to have been duly served if it appears, to the satisfaction of the court, that it was left at the defendant's last known address or place of business, or, if the same is unknown to the public officer or public body concerned, that it was delivered to an adult occupier of the premises or place in relation to which such recovery is sought or was posted thereon in a conspicuous place.
(8) A certificate purporting to be made in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) and setting forth that the amount claimed is due and that the person named therein is liable for the payment thereof, and specifying the nature and particulars of the claùn, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein and of the correctness of the signature thereto.
(9) Where any sum the recovery of which is claimed under the provisions of this section arose in respect of any building works within (68 of 1955), the meaning of the Buildings Ordinance, 1955, the public officer or public body concerned may, at any time before such sum has been wholly recovered, register in the Land Office against the title of any property in respect of which such sum arose a memorial of the certificate issued under the provisions of subsection (1), and in such event such sum shall be charge upon the land recoverable in accordance with the provisions of subsection (6) from any person who from the Land Office register then or thereafter appears to be the owner thercof:
Provided that a charge shall not be deemed to arise solely by virtue of this subsection in respect of any person whose interest was registered before the registration of the memorial of such certificate.
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(10) Upon the recovery of any sum under the provisions of this section, the public officer or public body concerned shall lodge in the Land Office an appropriate memorial of satisfaction against any memo- rial lodged there under the provisions of subsection (9).
(11) Where two or more sums are claimed from any person as being due under the provisions of this Ordinance, any writ, complaint, summons or warrant issued for the purposes of the Ordinance in respect of that person may contain in the body thereof, or in a schedule thereto, all or any of the sums so claimed.
131. (1) Without prejudice to any other provisions of this Ordin- Name in auce, or to the provisions of any other enactment, relating to the which certain
proceedings prosecution of criminal offences, prosecutions for an offence under the sections of this Ordinance specified in the first coluran of the Sixth brought. may be
Schedule may be brought-
(a) where the offence was committed in the urban areas or in the other cases specified in the second column of that Schedule, in the name of the public officer or public body specified in relation thereto in the said second column of that Schedule; and
(b) save where otherwise provided in the third column of that Schedule, where the offence was committed in the New Territories, in the name of the public officer or public body specified in relation thereto in the said third column of that Schedule.
(2) Nothing in this section or in section 132 shall be deemed to derogate from the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of criminal offences.
(3) Every complaint made or information laid in respect of an offence under any of the provisions of this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder shall be made or laid in the manner prescribed by the Magistrates Ordinance.
(4) The Governor in Council may by order amend, add to or delete from, the Sixth Schedule.
Sixlo Scherble.
(Cap. 22))).
Sixth Schedule.
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132. Any public officer or public body in whose name proceedings Institution for an offence under any of the provisions of this Ordinance or any and conduct regulations made thereunder may be brought may authorize in writing, proceedings. either generally or in any particular case, any public officer to institute on behalf of such public officer or public body any such proceedings before
any court or to conduct on behalf of such public officer or public body any such proceedings before any court, and any public officer * authorized may institute such proceedings and may conduct them before any court notwithstanding the provisions of the Legal Practi- tioners Ordinance.
(Cap. 159).