Hong Kong Ordinances

ANIMALS AND PLANTS (PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES) ORDINANCE - SECT 19

Power to amend the Schedules

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 65 of 1999 s. 3

(1) The Chief Executive in Council may, by order published in the Gazette,
amend any Schedule. (Amended 65 of 1999 s. 3)

(1A) Without affecting the power conferred on the Chief Executive in Council
under subsection (1) to amend any Schedule, the Secretary for Economic
Services may, by notice published in the Gazette, amend Schedule 1, 2 or 3 or
the Sixth Schedule. (Added 3 of 1995 s. 13. Amended 65 of 1999 s. 3)

(2) Where at the commencement of an order amending Schedule 1, 2, 3 or 5 any
person has in his possession or under his control any scheduled species or
controlled medicine in respect of which, prior to the commencement, there was
under section 6 no requirement for a licence, that section shall come into
operation in respect of such scheduled species or controlled medicine with
effect from a date which is 3 months after the commencement of the order.
(Amended 25 of 1989 s. 16)