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Wednesday, June 7, 1972
PILE DRIVING BETWEEN 11 P.M. AND 6 A.M.
Already An Offence If Noise Annoys Person
The Attorney General, the Hon. D.T.E. Roberts, said today it
was already an offence to carry out pile driving between 11 p.m. and
6 a.m. if this caused sufficient noise to disturb or interfere with
public tranquility or to annoy any person.
He was speaking in the Legislative Council in reply to a question
by the Hon. Sir Yuet-keung had asked: "Will Government take steps, if
necessary by legislation, (a) to ensure that pile driving which creates
a noise of such intensity as to be a danger to health can be stopped
immediately; (b) to ensure that persons responsible for pile driving
are required to take such steps as are feasible to silence or reduce
the noise from pile drivers; (c) to restrict the hours for pile driving;
(d) to provide relief from pile driving noise on public holidays?"
Mr. Roberts said that Government would consider whether any
further extension of the present restrictions in the manner suggested by
Sir Yuet-keung was desirable.
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