HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY #BRZA⭑
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Sunday, April 11, 1976
WARNING ON ILLEGAL EXCAVATION
The Housing Department today (Sunday) gave a warning that it was
an offence to excavate unleased crown land without authority.
Mr. G.N. Mulloy, Assistant Director of Housing (Squatter Control),
said under provisions of the Crown Land Ordinance, any person found guilty of
such an offence is liable to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for six
months.
Many people have been making illegal terraces by excavation to
provide a foundation for new squatter huts.
"This is a dangerous practice as it loosens the earth and breaks
up the drainage system, thus endangering the life and property of those
living nearby by creating the risk of floods or landslides," he said.
Mr. Mulloy warned that it was also an offence under the same
ordinance to excavate unleased land for erecting illegal huts.
He said: "Anyone who fails to comply with a notice served by the
authority to cease occupation of an unleased land before a given date commits
an offence and is liable to the maximum penalty of a fine of $10,000 and
imprisonment for six months."
Recently, a case of excavation was brought before a Tsuen Wan
Magistrate in which the two defendants were each sentenced to a line of
$700 or imprisonment for six weeks.
The defendants, Wong Hung-kwong and Law Shing-bun, were arrested
and charged after they had ignored verbal warnings by Housing Department
staff to stop excavation on the slope of Yau Tong Hill.