Hong Kong Ordinances

FORESHORE AND SEA-BED (RECLAMATIONS) ORDINANCE - SECT 8

Authorization procedure if objection made

(Past version on 01/07/1997).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 62 of 2000 s. 3

(1) Where at the expiry of the time for the making of objections under
section 6 in respect of a proposed reclamation any objection has been
delivered under that section, the Director shall, within a period of 9 months
after the expiry of that time, or within such further period of not more than
6 months after the expiry of that period as may, upon the application of the
Director, be allowed by the Chief Executive having regard to the circumstances
of the case, submit to the Chief Executive in Council for consideration the
proposed reclamation and any such objection, and the Chief Executive in
Council shall consider the proposed reclamation and every objection and may-

   (a)  decline to authorize the reclamation;

   (b)  authorize the reclamation in part only and defer for further
        consideration at such future time as the Chief Executive in Council
        shall specify, any objection which relates to the remaining part of
        the reclamation not so authorized; or

   (c)  authorize the whole of the reclamation. (Amended 17 of 1998 s. 2)

(2) Where a reclamation is authorized under subsection (1)(b) or

   (c)  , the plan relating to such reclamation shall be subject to such
        modifications and conditions as the Chief Executive in Council thinks
        fit.
(Amended 62 of 2000 s. 3) (Enacted 1985)