CO129-548-15 Sand Ordinance 1934 23-11-1934 - 12-9-1935 — Page 16

HONG KONG.

No. 41 of 1934.

I assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

23rd November, 1934.

An Ordinance to protect the sand supplies of the Colony and

to regulate the sale of sand.

[23rd November, 1934.]

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 Sand Ordinance, Short title. 1934.

tion.

2. In this Ordinance "sand" means the loose particles of Interpreta- inorganic matter which are deposited on foreshores or on land other than land in the Colony held under lease from the Crown.

3. Within the Colony the Governor shall have the exclu- Governor to sive privilege of collecting, storing and selling sand.

have exclu- sive privi- lege of collecting and selling sand.

Governor

4. It shall be lawful for the Governor to prescribe the places from which sand shall be taken and at which it shall be authorised

to prescribe stored, the means whereby it shall be collected and the price to prese at which it shall be sold.

Power of

5. It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works to grant permits for the collection of sand and its removal to a Director of prescribed place of storage.

Public

Works

to issue permits.

Carriage of

6.-(1) Except under the authority of this Ordinance no vessel other than an ocean-going steamship or motor-ship shall sand by sea carry any sand whether such sand has been obtained within or prohibited, without the Colony.

(2) Where any sand is found on board any vessel in con- travention of sub-section (1), the master or person in charge of such vessel shall be deemed to be in possession of such sand.

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