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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH JUNE, 1899.

12. Steam-ferries and passenger boats shall not be enti- Owners of tled to make habitual use any Pier not constructed for ferries not their sole use, but casual passengers and their luggage shall entitled to

exclusive use at all times have free access to any pier for the purpose of

of pier. landing or embarking.

13. No vessel shall lie alongside the end of any Pier.

14. No licence given for the erection or re-crection of any Pier shall be assigned or transferred without the consent of the Director of Public Works being previously obtained in writing.

Vessel not to lie along end of pier. Licence for pier not to be assigned without consent.

removal of pier,

15. In the event of any future extension of the Praya Power to rendering the removal or partial removal of any Pier advis- order able, and in that event only, it shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works to order that such Pier shall be either partially or entirely removed by the owner and at his expense.

The Director of Public Works shall alone be entitled to dictate, in the event of a partial removal of such Pier, what portions of it are to be so removed, and any such removal, whether partial or total, shall be effected by the owner within such a period as shall be ordered by the Director of Public Works in a notice in writing served upon the owner.

The cost of such removal or partial removal of any Pier shall be defrayed exclusively by the owner thereof, and no compensation will be paid by the Government for any description of loss or damage, whether direct or indirect, which the owner of such Pier may sustain by reason of any such removal or partial removal.

lations.

16. The Governor-in-Council shall have power to make Power to Regulations for the erection, re-erection, alteration, extension, make Regu- or maintenance of Piers and generally for the further and better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance. Such Regulations shall be published in the Gazette.

17. In the event of any person failing to comply with Penalty. any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any Regu- lation made thereunder, such person shall be liable to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and in default of payment of such fine to imprisonment for a period not ex- ceeding six months, with or without hard labour, and in the event of a continued breach of any provisions of this Ordinance or of any Regulations made thereunder the person offending shall be liable to pay an additional fine of ten dollars a day for each and every day during which he shall so remain in default, and every such additional fine shall be recoverable summarily under the provisions of any Magistrates Ordinance which may from time to time be in force in the Colony.

18. The following Statutes are hereby repealed, namely, Repeals, section 68 aud Schedule (D) of Ordinance 15 of 1889 and .section 12 and the Schedule of Ordinance 25 of 1891.

19. From and after the date of the commencement of Piers to be this Ordinance, Piers shall be exempt from the payment of exempt from

rates.

rates.

20. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st day Commence- of July, 1899, and the new rents chargeable under section ment of 3 of this Ordinance and the schedule shall commence to run Ordinance. from and including the 1st day of July, 1899.

a memoment

SCHEDULE.

Scale of annual rents chargeable under this Ordinance for encroachments of Piers over Crown Foreshore,

(a.) Within the Harbour limits on the Hongkong side :

For encroachments of 500 square feet or less.......... For encroachments exceeding 500 square feet, but not

exceeding 1,000 square feet,

120

180

For encroachments exceeding 1,000 square feot, but not

exceeding 2,000 square feet,

300

For encroachments exceeding 2,000 square feet, but not

exceeding 3,000 square feet,

480

For encroachments exceeding 3,000 square feet, but not

exceeding 5,000 square feet,

660

For encroachments exceeding 5,000 square feet, but not

exceeding 10,000 square feet..............

900

For encroachments exceeding 10,000 square feet..........

1,200

(b.) In any other place:

Half the above scale.

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