Offences and penaldes.
Name io which proceedings for offences may be brought.
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12. (1) Any person who-
(a) contravenes any of the provisions of paragraph (1) of by-le
7 or paragraph (1) of by-law 8 or of by-law 9; or (b) fails to comply with any of the requirements of a notice served upon him under the provisions of paragraph (2) of by-law 4, paragraph (2) or (3) of by-law 5 or paragraph (2) of by-lawi, shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) In the event of any contravention of any of the provisions of paragraph (1) of by-law 4, paragraph (1) of by-law 5 or paragraph (1) of by-law 6, the owner and the occupier of the well, water storage tanl or cistern, as the case may be, shall be guilty of an offence,
(3) Any person who is guilty of an offence under these by-laws shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and, where the offence is a continuing offence, shall be liable in additio to a tine of ten dollars for each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the offence has continued.
13. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactmen ? relating to the prosecution of criminal offences and without prejudic to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of such offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisious of these by-laws may be brought in the name of the Council.
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Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the by-laws, but is intended
to indicate their general purport).
Regulations 87 10 93 of the Building (Construction) Regulations, 1956 pervide in detail for the proper construction of wells. The purpose of these by-lawn is to provide for the proper cleaning of wells, water storage tanks and cisterns, and to re-enact, in the form of by-laws, the substance of section 29(1) of the repealed Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, which limited the ose of well water to cooling and flushing systems, except with the permission of the Building Authority and the Urban Council.
(Secretariat GRS/3231/60)
SCHEDULE.
Places to which provisions of by-law 7(1)
do not apply.
Shek O Village.
Made by the Urban Council this 2nd day of May, 1961.
[by-lam 7211
1.5 Whitley
Secretary,
Approved by the Legislative Council this 24th day of May. 1981.
COUNCIL CRAMBER,
24th May, 1961.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.