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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 6, 1935.

HONG KONG,

No. 50 or 1935.

I assent.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

L.S.

Officer Administering the Government.

6th December, 1935.

An Ordinance to regulate the importation and the removal

of sand.

[6th December, 1935.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1935.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sand Ordinance, Short title.

2.—(1) No person may take sand from any land, fore- Permit shore or sea bed, not under lease from the Crown, without required for

removal of

having previously obtained written removal permit sand from

a

or sale and removal permit from the Director of Public land, fore- Works applicable to such sand.

shore or sea-bed, not under lease

Crown.

(2) Any such permit may prescribe the quantity of sand from the which may be taken and the places from and to which it may be removed and any such sale and removal permit may also prescribe the price to be paid for the sand to which it relates.

where any

two

3.-(1) No person may in any junk or lighter, or in Permit any truck or lorry, bring into the Colony or remove from required one part of the Colony to another any sand, wherever sand in obtained and whatever its ultimate destination, in excess of excess of two hundredweights, unless he has in his possession a permit, hundred- issued under section 2 (1), or a written removal permit from weights is the Director of Public Works issued under this section, removed by applicable to such sand.

imported or

junk, lighter,

truck or

(2) Any removal permit issued under this section may lorry. prescribe the quantity of sand which may be removed and the places from and to which it may be removed.

4. Any person who contravenes any provision of Penalties. section 2 (1), or section 3 (1), or who brings into the Colony or takes or removes more sand than is prescribed by the permit or sand from or to any place other than the place or places, if any, prescribed in the permit, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprison- ment for any term not exceeding six months.

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