TNAG-1818-FCO40-2579-Broadcasting-in-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 139

A510

Service of notices

Consequential amendments

Schedule

Transitional (Cap. 228)

(Cap. 132)

Ord. No. 75/88

NOISE CONTROL

39. Any notice to be served by the Authority upon any person under this Ordinance may be served-

(a) by serving a copy personally or by registered post addressed to the last known place of business or residence of the person to be served; or

(b) where the notice is to be served on the owner, tenant, occupier or person in charge of any premises or place, by affixing a copy upon a conspicuous part of the premises or place.

40. The enactments specified in the first column of the Schedule are amended to the extent set out in the second column.

41. (1) A permit granted to any person under section 13(6)(a) of the Summary Offences Ordinance and in force immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance shall continue in force after such commencement and have effect according to its tenor as if it were a construction noise permit issued under section 8(1) of this Ordinance.

(2) Notwithstanding the repeal by this Ordinance of section 12(1)(h) of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance, where immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance there was in force, under section 127 of that Ordinance, any nuisance notice relating to a nuisance described in section 12(1)(h), section 127 shall continue to apply to that nuisance as if section 12(1)(h) had not been repealed.

SCHEDULE

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Extent of amendment

[s. 40]

Item

Enactment

(Cap. 59)

1.

Factories and Industrial

(Cap. 132)

2.

(Cap. 203)

3.

Undertakings

Ordinance

Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance

Cross-Harbour Tunnel Ordinance

Cross-Harbour Tunnel

(Cap. 203, sub. leg.)

4.

Regulations

(Cap. 228)

5.

Summary Offences Ordinance

Amend section 9A(5)(b)(ii) by adding after "generally" the words "other than in respect of noise affecting persons not employed therein".

In section 12(1)→

(a) repeal the semicolon at the end of paragraph

(g) and substitute a full stop;

(b) repeal paragraph (h).

(a) Repeal section 27. (b) Repeal section 61(d).

Repeal regulation 4(p).

(a) In section 4-

(i) in paragraph (11), repeal "or keeps any animal or bird which is a source of annoyance to any neighbour by reason of any noise made by such animal or bird;";