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SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1985
MR BROWN SAID THAT THIS WAS CONSIDERED PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT WHEN BEARING IN MIND THAT NEW POPULATION WAS STILL MOVING INTO TUEN MUN AND THAT THE TERRITORY-WIDE FIGURE SHOWED A DECREASE IN REPORTED CRIME OF 2.9 PER CENT.
TODAY'S CRIME PREVENTION CARNIVAL WAS ORGANISED BY THE TUEN
MUN DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE.
OTHER OFFICIATING GUESTS INCLUDED MR CHARLES YEUNG, UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE, MR FUNG CHOI-CHEUNG, DISTRICT OFFICER OF TUEN MUN, MR LAU WONG-FAT OF HEUNG YEE KUK, MR CHEUNG KAM-HUNG, CHAIRMAN OF TUEN MUN DFCC, AND MR LAU CHI-YUEN, TUEN MUN DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER.
WARNING ABOUT ILLEGAL USE OF CROWN LAND *****
THE LANDS DEPARTMENT TODAY ISSUED A WARNING AGAINST THE UNAUTHORISED USE OF UNLEASED CROWN LAND.
THE WARNING FOLLOWED A RECENT COURT CASE IN WHICH A BUILDING CONTRACTOR WAS FINED MORE THAN $7 700 BY A MAGISTRATE FOR ILLEGALLY STORING BUILDING MATERIALS ON AN UNLEASED CROWN LAND NEXT TO A PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL LOT CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT IN SHA TIN.
THE CONTRACTOR HAD ADMITTED THE OFFENCE.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DISTRICT LANDS OFFICE DESCRIBED THE DETERRENT EFFECT OF THE HEAVY FINE AS +VERY ENCOURAGING+, AND EMPHASISED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT TOLERATE CROWN LAND BEING UNLAWFULLY OCCUPIED.
HE EXPLAINED THAT IT WAS THE DUTY OF CONTRACTORS TO ENSURE THAT THEIR BUILDING MATERIALS WERE ALWAYS STORED WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF LEASED LAND AND THAT PEDESTRIAN PAVEMENTS AROUND DEVELOPING LOTS WERE FREE OF OBSTRUCTION.
UNDER THE CROWN LAND ORDINANCE, ANY PERSON WHO OCCUPIES UNLEASED LAND WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE GOVERNMENT AND WHO FAILS TO CEASE SUCH OCCUPATION UPON WARNINGS IS GUILTY OF AN OFFENCE.
THE OFFENDER, UPON CONVICTION, IS LIABLE TO A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT AND A FINE OF $10 000.
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