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Wednesday, June 7, 1972

PILE DRIVING BETWEEN 11 P.M. AND 6 A.M.

Already An Offence If Noise Annoys Person

The Attorney General, the Hon. D.T.E. Roberts, said today it

was already an offence to carry out pile driving between 11 p.m. and

6 a.m. if this caused sufficient noise to disturb or interfere with

public tranquility or to annoy any person.

He was speaking in the Legislative Council in reply to a question

by the Hon. Sir Yuet-keung had asked: "Will Government take steps, if

necessary by legislation, (a) to ensure that pile driving which creates

a noise of such intensity as to be a danger to health can be stopped

immediately; (b) to ensure that persons responsible for pile driving

are required to take such steps as are feasible to silence or reduce

the noise from pile drivers; (c) to restrict the hours for pile driving;

(d) to provide relief from pile driving noise on public holidays?"

Mr. Roberts said that Government would consider whether any

further extension of the present restrictions in the manner suggested by

Sir Yuet-keung was desirable.

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