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HONG KONG.

No. 16 of 1940.

I assent.

N.L. Saist

Oficer Administering the Government

21st June, 1940.

An Ordinance to amend the Advertisements Regulation Ordin-

anco, 1912.

[21st June, 1940.1

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Advertisements Short Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1940.

title.

of Ordin- soce No. 19

2. Section 3 of the Advertisements Regulation Ordin- Amendment ance, 1912, is amended by the substitution of the words "Urban Council

** for the words "Governor in Council in of 1912, the first line thereof.

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B. 3.

9. Section & of the Advertisements Regulation Ordin- Amendment ance, 1912, is repealed and the following section substituted therefor-

6.-(1) If any person-

at Ordin- ance No. 19 of 1912, *. 5

Power to Chairmaa of Urban

(a) against whom an order for the removal of an adver- Council to tisement is made by a magistrate, or

enter pramises and remove

mabls.

(b) on whom a notice under the hand of the Secretary advertise- of the Urban Council is served requiring the removal of an advertisement on such grounds as may be prescribed by by-laws,

fails to remove the advertisement as required by such order or notice, then without prejudice to the liability of such person to any penalty for non-compliance with the order or The liability of such person or owner for any breach of by-laws, it shall be lawful for any person authorized in that behalf by the Chairman of the Urban Council at any time in the daytime to enter into and upon the land or building on or in which the advertisement is erected or exhibited and to remove or obliterate the advertisement.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Chairman of the Urban Council or any person deputed by him for that purpose to enter at any time into and upon any premises and remove any sky sign erected or maintained in contravention of by-laws.

(3) The materials of any advertisement removed in pur- suance of this section shall be forfeited to the Crown.

(4) The Chairman of the Urban Council and any person so authorized or deputed by him as aforesaid shall not be held liable for any damage done by him in course of the removal or obliteration of any advertisement in pursuance of this section.