Hong Kong Ordinances

SEWAGE TUNNELS (STATUTORY EASEMENTS) ORDINANCE - SECT 10

Statutory easements

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Amendments retroactively made - see 29 of 1998 s. 105

(1) Subject to this Ordinance, the Government may exercise from time to time
all or any of the following rights over any land identified in an order made
under section 6 or 7, that is to say the right-

   (a)  to place and keep any sewage tunnel under such land and to transfer
        sewage through such tunnel; and

   (b)  to carry out tunnel works required for the purposes of paragraph (a).

(2) Rights shall only be exercisable under subsection (1) where there is a
cover to the sewage tunnel or tunnel works, as the case may be, of not less
than 30 metres of bedrock.

(3) The rights conferred by this section on the Government may be exercised by
any employee, servant or agent of the Government authorized for the purpose or
by any other person authorized on the Government's behalf for the purpose.
(Enacted 1993. Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)