CAP. 228]
Summary Offences
[1989 Ed.
"public officer," or "public department," extends to and includes the Governor and every officer or department invested with or performing duties of a public nature, whether under the immediate control of the Governor or not; "public place" includes all piers, thoroughfares, streets, roads, lanes, alleys, courts, squares, archways, waterways, passages, paths, ways and places to which the public have access either continuously or periodically, whether the same are the property of the Crown or of private persons.
(2) Where no specific description is given of the ownership of any property, the word "property" shall be taken to apply to all such property of the kinds specified, whether owned by the Crown, by a public department or by a private person.
3. Delegation of powers
Where under any provision of this Ordinance any public officer is empowered to permit or consent to the doing of any thing or to issue any licence in respect thereof, such power may be exercised by any public officer in the same department as that of the officer to whom the power is granted who is authorized in writing in that behalf by such officer.
(Added 48 of 1959 s. 2)
Nuisances, trespasses and similar offences
4. Nuisances committed in public places, etc.
Any person who without lawful authority or excuse-
(1) throws or lays, or causes or knowingly permits to be thrown or laid, any carrion, dirt, soil, straw or dung, or any other filth, rubbish or noisome or offensive matter whatsoever, on any public place, or on any Government property unless with the consent of a public officer, or on any private property unless with the consent of the owner and of the occupier (if any) of such private property; or into any well, stream, watercourse, ford or reservoir, or into any drain or sewer; or permits or suffers any such noisome or offensive substance as aforesaid to remain exposed in any drain, sewer or elsewhere, opposite to or in the immediate neighbourhood of his house; or allows any accumulation of filth or offensive substances within the premises occupied by him, or in any manner defiles or pollutes any well, stream or watercourse used by any of the inhabitants of Hong Kong or for the supplying with water of ships resorting thereto; (Amended 48 of 1959 s. 3; 38 of 1981 s. 3; 33 of 1989 s. 5)
(2) in or into a public place or vehicle or ferry or any building to which the public have access, spits except into a receptacle or channel for sewage, sullage or waste water; (Added 10 of 1940 s. 2)
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CAP. 228]
Summary Offences
[1989 Ed.
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"public officer," or "public department," extends to and includes the Governor and every officer or department invested with or performing duties of a public nature, whether under the immediate control of the Governor or not; "public place” includes all piers, thoroughfares, streets, roads, lanes, alleys, courts, squares, archways, waterways, passages, paths, ways and places to which the public have access either continuously or periodically, whether the same are the property of the Crown or of private persons.
(2) Where no specific description is given of the ownership of any property, the word "property” shall be taken to apply to all such property of the kinds specified, whether owned by the Crown, by a public department or by a private person.
3. Delegation of powers
Where under any provision of this Ordinance any public officer is empowered to permit or consent to the doing of any thing or to issue any licence in respect thereof, such power may be exercised by any public officer in the same department as that of the officer to whom the power is granted who is authorized in writing in that behalf by such officer.
(Added 48 of 1959 s. 2)
Nuisances, trespasses and similar offences
4. Nuisances committed in public places, etc.
Any person who without lawful authority or excuse-
(1) throws or lays, or causes or knowingly permits to be thrown or laid, any carrion, dirt, soil, straw or dung, or any other filth, rubbish or noisome or offensive matter whatsoever, on any public place, or on any Government property unless with the consent of a public officer, or on any private property unless with the consent of the owner and of the occupier (if any) of such private property; or into any well, stream, watercourse, ford or reservoir, or into any drain or sewer; or permits or suffers any such noisome or offensive substance as aforesaid to remain exposed in any drain, sewer or elsewhere, opposite to or in the immediate neighbourhood of his house; or allows any accumulation of filth or offensive substances within the premises occupied by him, or in any manner defiles or pollutes any well, stream or watercourse used by any of the inhabitants of Hong Kong or for the supplying with water of ships resorting thereto; (Amended 48 of 1959 s. 3; 38 of 1981 s. 3; 33 of 1989 s. 5)
(2) in or into a public place or vehicle or ferry or any building to which the public have access, spits except into a receptacle or channel for sewage, sullage or waste water; (Added 10 of 1940 s. 2)
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