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Ord. No. 53/86

LEGITIMACY (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

No. 53 of 1986

I assent.

L.S.

An Ordinance to amend the Legitimacy Ordinance.

David AKERS-JONES, Acting Governor, 31 July 1986

FIRE SERVICES (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3)

Ord. No. 54/86

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HONG KONG

No. 54 OF 1986

I assent.

L.S.

David AKERS-JONES, Acting Governor. 31 July 1986

An Ordinance to amend the Fire Services Ordinance.

Short title.

Amendment of

section 3.

(Cap. 184.)

Amendment of

Schedule.

(Cap. 184.)

[1 August 1986]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Legitimacy (Amendment) Ordinance 1986.

2.

Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting, after sub- section (3), the following subsection—

"(4) The Legislative Council may by resolution vary the amount of any fee specified in the Schedule.".

3. The Schedule to the principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) in paragraph 5 by deleting "$30" and substituting the following—

"$35"; and

(b) in paragraph 6(1) by deleting "$10" and substituting the following—

"$12".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 30th day of July 1986.

LAW Kam-sang,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

LAW Kam-sang, Clerk to the Legislative Council.

[1 August 1986]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Fire Services (Amendment) (No. 3) Short title. Ordinance 1986.

2.

Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after the Amendment of definition of "subordinate officer" the following definition—

3.

*“tenant” includes sub-tenant;”.

Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) in subsection (1)(a)(iii) by deleting "occupier or the owner" and substituting

the following-

"owner, tenant, occupier or person in charge”;

(b) by deleting subsection (1)(b);

(c) by inserting after subsection (1) the following-

(Cap. 115.)

"(1A) The Director may, by notice in writing served either person- ally or by registered post, require—

(a) any person upon whom he serves a notice under sub-

section (1); or

(b) any person whom he reasonably suspects of being the person by reason of whose act, default or sufferance the fire hazard arose, or continues,

to give correct particulars of his name and address and produce proof of his identity to the Director before the expiry of such time being not less than 24 hours as may be specified in the notice.

(1B) The reference in subsection (IA) to a person's identity shall be construed in accordance with the definition of “proof of identity" in section 17B of the Immigration Ordinance.

(1C) Any person who—

(a) without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (IA) before the expiry of the time specified in the notice; or

(b) furnishes particulars which he knows to be false in connexion

with a requirement under subsection (1A),

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of $5,000.”;

section 2. (Cap. 95.)

Amendment of section 9.