Hong Kong Ordinances

SEWAGE TUNNELS (STATUTORY EASEMENTS) ORDINANCE - SECT 5

Objections

(1) Subject to this section, any person who has an estate or interest
evidenced in an instrument registered in the Land Registry in any land
situated on the route of a proposed tunnel may object to the route or depth or
both of the proposed tunnel.

(2) An objection under this section shall be made by notice in writing
delivered to the Director of Drainage Services at any time during the period
beginning on the publication of the notice of the plan of the proposed tunnel
and ending with the expiry of the time specified in that notice for the
purpose of section 4(2)(d).

(3) A notice of objection shall-

   (a)  describe the estate or interest of the objector in the land; and

   (b)  state the reasons for his objection.

(4) A notice of objection delivered pursuant to subsection (2) may be amended
or withdrawn in writing at any time before an order is made under section 6 or
7, and if withdrawn shall be treated for the purposes of those sections as not
having been delivered. (Enacted 1993)