False state- ments,

Refusal to furnish information.

Offences in respect of leaseą.

Obstruction.

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at a time and place stated in the notice and be examined con- cerning his occupation of the land.

(3) The Authority and an authorized officer may require a person holding a lease to produce it at such time and place as the Authority or authorized officer may specify.

PART V

OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

26. Any person who knowingly makes any false statement-

(a) in furnishing the particulars specified in a requisition

under section 25(1);

(b) in an examination under section 25(2); or

(c) in respect of an application for a lease.

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

27. Any person who-

(a) refuses or neglects to furnish any of the particulars

specified in a requisition under section 25(1);

(b) refuses or neglects, when required under section 25(3), to

produce his lease,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three months.

28. Any person who, without the consent of the Authority, alters a lease shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprison- ment for six months.

29. Any person who obstructs the Authority or an authorized officer in the exercise of any power or the performance of any duty conferred or imposed under this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

PART VI

GENERAL

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30. (1) The Authority may make by-laws to provide for-

(a) the management and control of its estates: (b) the sanitation and cleansing of its estales:

(c) the health of persons living in its estates:

(d) the selection of persons to whom leases may be granted;

(e) the manner in which applications for leases of premises

in its estates may be made;

() the preservation of good order and the prevention of

abuses and nuisances in its estates:

(g) the control of the use of vehicles within its estates;

(A) the eviction of trespassers from its estates;

(0) the better carrying out of this Ordinance.

(2) By-laws made by the Authority shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.

31. Neither the Government nor the Authority or any authorized officer, shall be liable for any loss or damage suffered by any person in consequence of anything done under section 24.

32. Any part of an estate, which is not the subject of a lease, shall be deemed to be a public place for the purposes of the Summary Offences Ordinance and the Public Order Ordin-

ance.

33. (1) The Authority may specify the forms to be used under this Ordinance.

(2) The Authority may publish in the Gazette any form specified by it under subsection (1).

Authority may make by-lawN

No claim to lis against the Authority or the Govern- ment.

Certain parts of estatos lo be public places. (Cap. 328.) (cap. 245.)

Power to specify forms.

34. (1) The Authority shall, for the purpose of this Ordin- Exemplions. ance, be exempt from the Inland Revenue Ordinance.

(2) Property vested in or placed under the control of the Authority for the purposes of this Ordinance shall be exempt from the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance.

(C#, 112)

(Cap. 235.)

35. If any dispute arises in respect of any difference between Dispute as to the English version and the Chinese version of any lease, letter, English or

Chinese version notice or document required, granted, issued or made by, under

of lease, etc. or for the purposes of this Ordinance, the English version shall prevail.

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