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Monday, May 14, 1973
TSUEN WAN BECOMES SMOKE CONTROL AREA
Area.
Tsuen Wan tomorrow (May 15) becomes Hong Kong's fourth Smoke Control
It was gazetted as such on March 16.
Members of the public were given 21 days to make recommendations
or objections to the declaration, but according to Mr. K. Higginson, Smoke
Abatement Adviser of the Labour Department, no objections had been received.
He said he had already advised fuel users in Tsuen Wan of the
declaration and the necessary precautions to make.
"Beginning tomorrow, Smoke Inspectors will be out patrolling Teuen
Wan to make sure everyone complies with the law," he said.
"Under the law, an occupier of any premises within a smoke control
area who operates any furnace, oven or chimney which emits dark smoke for
more than six minutes in any period of four hours, or for more than three
minutes continuously at any one time, is liable to a $2,000 fine, plus a
$50 fine for every 15 minutes during the whole or any part of which the
offence continues," he said.
Mr. Higginson pointed out that the emission of smoke darker than the
legal level was a result of incomplete combustion.
"Anyone who wants free technical advice on how to avoid the problem
can contact officers of my unit by ringing 3-688924 or 3-688954 during office
hours," he said,
Three other areas have already been gazetted as smoke control areas -
Kwun Tong in 1960, Sha Tin in 1962 and North Point in 1964.
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