188497-1932-Regulations-under-section-2-of-the-Advertisements-Regulation-Ordinance-1912 — Page 2

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 29, 1932.

erected or exhibited requiring such person or owner to remove the advertisement within fourteen days of the date of the notice and such person or owner shall remove the advertise- ment within such fourteen days

8.-(1) If the person against whom an order for the removal of an advertisement is made by a magistrate or if the person or owner on whom a notice under the preceding regulation is served shall fail to remove the advertisement as required by such order or notice, then, without prejudice to the liability of such person to any penalty for non-compliance with the order or the liability of such person or owner for any breach of these regulations, it shall be lawful for any person authorised in that behalf by the Director of Public Works at any time in the daytime to enter into and upon the land or building on or in which the advertisement is erected or exhibited and to remove or obliterate the advertisement.

(2) The materials of any advertisement removed in pursuance of these regulations shall be forfeited to the Crown.

(3) The Director of Public Works and any person so authorised by him as aforesaid shall not be held liable for any damage done by him in course of the removal or obliteration of any advertisement in pursuance of these regulations.

9.-(1) Any expenses incurred by the Director of Public Works in consequence of any default in complying with an order or notice requiring the removal of any advertisement shall be deemed to be money paid for the use and at the request of the person against whom the said order or the person or owner on whom the said notice was served and shall be recoverable from him in the ordinary course of law at the suit of the Director of Public Works.

(2) The provisious of the Crown Remedies Ordinance, 1875, shall apply to the recovery of all such expenses and the certificate required by that Ordinance shall be signed by the Director of Public Works.

10. Any notice given under the provisions of these regulations may be served either personally or by leaving the same at or by sending the same by post to the last known place of business or residence in the Colony of the person to be served and any notice sent by post shall be deemed to be duly served at the time when it ought in due course of post to be delivered at the address to which it is sent. Provided always that in addition to the foregoing means of service a notice to be served upon the owner of any land or building whereon any advertisement is erected or exhibited may be served by affixing the same upon a conspicuous part of such land or building.

11. In these regulations:--

(a) "advertisement" includes any structure or apparatus erected or intended only for the display of advertisements but does not include any advertisement or structure or apparatus which is not visible from any street, or from the waters of the Colony, or from any other place to which the public have access, of from any land or building not belonging to or in the possession of the owner or occupier of the land or building on or in which such structure or apparatus is erected or on or in which the advertisement is exhibited.

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