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name an unnamed strect without first having received

a proposal under section 111A. This allows the

Authority to name private streets, where the owners

of the private street have delayed proposing an

acceptable name to the Authority. Where a land

owner proposes a name for an unnamed private street

or where the Authority wishes to name an unnamed

public street it will not be necessary for the

Authority to give notice of intention to declare the

street name.

6.-

Proposed new section 111D makes it an

offence to mark or display names other than those

declared by the Authority under proposed new

section 111C.

7.

Under clause 3 of the Bill the Urban

Council and the Secretary for the New Territories

are designated as the Authorities in respect of

the urban areas and the New Territories respectively.

8.

The effect of clau se 4 is to enable

proceedings for an offence under proposed new section

111D to be brought in the name of the appropriate

Authority.

9.

Clause 5 provides that an offence under

new section 111D will incur a penalty of a $2,000

fine.

10.

This Bill has no financial or staffing

implications.