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10. (1) Notwithstanding section 9, the collection authority may, by licence, permit any person to provide services for all or any of the matters referred to in that section.
(2) A licence under subsection (1) may specify the place and method of disposal or may require that any waste or matter for disposal be delivered to facilities provided by the collection authority or the waste disposal authority,
(3) Where a licence under subsection (1) is granted by the Urban Council as a collection authority, the fee for such licence shall be such as the Urban Council may from time to time determine.
11. Subject to section 12, where in any area, the collection authority has provided any services under section 9 or has, by licence under section 10. permitted any other person to provide any of the services specified in Section 9, any person who, not being the holder of a licence under section 10, provides any such services, that is to say any service provided by the collection authority under section 9 or by any other person under a licence under section 10, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $2,000,
12. (1) Notwithstanding section 11, it shail not be an offence under that section for an occupier of any building, or any person responsible for the management of any building, to remove household waste from any building -
(a) the collection authority or any person holding a waste collection licence neglects or fails for a period of 48 hours to remove household waste for any building in respect of which the authority or person provides that service under section or 10: or
(b) no such service for the removal of household waste is provided by a collection authority or a person bolding a waste collection licence.
(2) Any waste removed under subsection (1) may be disposed of in any way permitted by law.
(3) Nothing in this section shall derogate from any regulations made under section 13 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance.
13. (1) If the collection authority is requested by the owner or occupier or person responsible for the management of any building or land to remove any trade waste or animal waste, the collection authority may remove it, and may recover from the person requesting the removal a fee pot exceeding the cost of removal and disposal.
(2) The collection aulbority may by notice served on the owner or occupier or person responsible for the management of any stable, cow- house, pigsty, kennel, poultry farm or similar establistument require the romoval from the premises of animal waste, bedding, straw or other waste.
(3) TG where a notice has been served under subsection (2), any person, who is required by the notice to remove any animal waste, bedding, straw or other waste from any premises specified in the notice, fails to comply with that requirement, he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $2,000 and, in addition, if the offence is a continuing offence to a fine of $200 for each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the offence has continued.
14. All household waste, street waste, trade waste, animal waste and any matter obtained from the cleansing and emptying of pail latrines and the desludging of aqua privies and septic tanks, collected by the collection authority is the operation of any service provided under section 9 or
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section 13 or collected by a person licensed by a collection authority under section 10 shall-
(a) where the collection authority is the Urban Council, be the
property of the Urban Council; and
(b) where the collection authority is the Director of Urban Services or the Director of Agriculture and Fisheries, be the property of the Crown,
and may be sold or disposed of by the Urban Council or the Director of Urban Servies or the Director of Agriculture and Fisheries ja such manner as the Council or the Director thinks it.
15. The Governor may, by order published in the Gazette, designate Sorner of Buy area of Hong Kong as an area in which—
(a) animal waste or any class of animal waste is to be stored in
such containers or enclosures as may be prescribed;
(b) such precautions as are prescribed are to be taken to guard against dangers to public health or risks at pollution arising fram animal wasic.
PART IV
DISPOSAL OF WASTE
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16. () Subject to subsection (2), a person shall not use, or permit Pablo at to be used, any land for the disposal of waste unless he has a licence gauthark.ced
disponi of from the Director of Public Works to use the land for that purpose, waule.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the use of land for-
(a) the disposal of household waste from a private dwelling. If the
disposal takes place within the curtilage of that dwelling:
(b) the disposal of waste if the land is used for tipping by the Public Works Department or such use is authorized by that Department;
(c)
the deposit of any inert matler used as landfill (other than any matter to which the Dangerous Goods Ordinance applies or that (Can. 395.J is toxic);
(d) the deposit of any substance which is being used to the course
of agricultural or horticultural operations;
(e) the disposal of such other wastes, or classes of waste, or in such
circumstances as may be prescribed.
(3) Aoy person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence. (4) Where waste is disposed of on unlessed land, as defined in the Crown Land Ordinance, pursuant to a licence issued under section 5 of (Ckp. 283 that Ordinatice, no licence under subsection (1) shall be required.
17. (1) Any person having in his possession waste of such a class or Notice to be of such a quantity as may be prescribed shall, before disposing of that given before maste, give written notice to the Director of Public Works of the class deposal of and quantity of the waste, and shall not dispose of it except in accordance with written directions given by the Director.
(2) Any person who-
(a) disposes of waste of such a class or of such a quantity as may be prescribed without giving notice to the Director of Public Works; or
(b) having given notice to the Director, disposes of that waste otherwise than in accordance with directions given to him by the Director,
commits an offence.
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