Hong Kong Ordinances

BEDSPACE APARTMENTS ORDINANCE - SECT 21

Authority may direct remedial measures

(1) Where the Authority reasonably believes-

   (a)  that any condition of the certificate of exemption or the licence in
        respect of a bedspace apartment, or, in respect of a licensed 
        bedspace apartment, any provision of this Ordinance or of any code of 
        practice or any particular direction given under section 19(1)-

        (i)    is being contravened; or

        (ii)   has been contravened in circumstances that make it likely that
               the contravention will continue or be repeated; or

   (b)  that there is any danger or risk of any danger to life or property in
        or upon any premises used as a bedspace apartment, he may serve on the
        holder of the certificate of exemption or (as the case may be) the
        licensee a notice in writing stating that he is of such opinion and
        the ground for such opinion, and directing that the contravention or,
        as the case may be, the matter occasioning it be remedied, or (as the
        case may be) that the danger or risk of danger be removed, within the
        period of time specified in the notice.

(2) Save where the Authority is of the opinion that there is imminent danger
to life or property, the period specified in a notice under subsection (1) for
remedy of the contravention or matter or, as the case may be, for removal of
the danger or risk of danger to which the notice relates shall not expire
earlier than the period within which an appeal against a direction given in
the notice may be made under Part VII.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), a direction given in a notice under subsection
(1) shall take effect immediately upon service or on such later date, if any,
as may be specified in the notice, notwithstanding that an appeal against such
direction may be made under Part VII.

(4) Where-

   (a)  an appeal is made under Part VII against a direction given in a notice
        under subsection (1); and

   (b)  the Authority is satisfied that there is no imminent danger to life or
        property, the Authority shall suspend the operation of that part of
        the notice which contains such direction upon such terms as he thinks
        fit. (Enacted 1994)