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Disclosure

of informa tion,

Continuing offences.

Forfeitura.

Liability of licence holder for offence. committed by bia employees and agents.

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18. Any person who discloses any information obtained in the exercise of any powers conferred by this Ordinance, being information with regard to any manufacturing process or trade secret, unless the disclosure was made in accordance with the directions of the Board or for the purpose of proceedings for an offence against this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five thousand dollars.

19. Any person guilty of an offence against this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder shall, in addition to any other penalty prescribed for such offence, be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars for every day during the whole or any part of which such offence is knowingly and wilfully continued.

20. (1) A magistrate may order to be forfeited to the Crown any radioactive substance or irradiating apparatus in respect of which an offence against this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder has been committed, whether any person has been charged with such offence or not.

(2) Any radioactive substance or irradiating apparatus for- feited under subsection (r) shall be sold or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the Board directs.

21. Whenever it is proved to the satisfaction of any court having jurisdiction that an offence against this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder has been committed by any employee or agent of any person holding a licence issued under this Ordin- ance, such person shall he held to be liable for such offence and to the penalty provided therefor, unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge and that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence :

Provided that-

(a) no such person shall be sentenced to imprisonment (except in default of payment of a fine) for any offence under this section; and

(6) nothing in this section shall be deemed to exempt the employee or agent from the penalties provided for the offence committed by him.

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22. Subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, the Amend- Board may by order amend the Schedule.

ment of Schedule.

enactments.

13. The provisions of this Ordinance and any regulation Saving made thereunder shall be in addition to and not in derogation of for other the provisions of any other enactment relating to radioactive suli- stances or irradiating apparatus,

24. The Radio-Active Minerals Ordinance is repealed.

Repeal (Gap. 145),

25. Sections 7, 9 and 24 shall not come into operation until Commence- such date as the Governor may specify by Proclamation in the meat of Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

Radioactive Minerals.

[94. 2 & 28.]

(1) Any mineral containing uranium or thorium and, in particolar and without prejudice to the generality of this paragraph, the substances hereinafter not out in this Schedule.

(2) Minerals of the pitchblende group, including pitchblende, uraninite, ulrichita, broggerite, cleveite and related mineral species.

(3) Secondary uranium minerals including torbernite, autunite, uranite, rutherfordine, uranophane, gummite, thorogummite, Granocircite, kasolite, becquerelite, and other silicates, hydrates, carbonates, phosphates or arsenates of uraniumı.

(4) Carnotite, tynyamuuite, and related weanium-bearing vanadate

ored.

(6) Uranium-bearing niobale-titanato-Laniplate orey, including euxenite, polycrase, blomstrandine, priorite, anmarskite, fergu- sonite, betatite and related wineralų,

(6) Monazite, thorite, and thorianits,

Pussed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 4th day of September, 1957.

(Secretarial GRI/3916/52)

Lys. Lagu T

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

sections 7. 9 and 24.