Hong Kong Ordinances

PORT CONTROL (CARGO WORKING AREAS) ORDINANCE - SECT 3

Declaration of areas to be public cargo working areas, public water-fronts and excluded water-fronts

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

(1) The Secretary for Economic Services may, by order published in the
Gazette, declare any area of unleased Crown land (including any road), and any
area of water adjoining any such area, to be- (Amended 4 of 1995 s. 2)

   (a)  a public cargo working area;

   (b)  a public water-front; or

   (c)  an excluded water-front.

(2) In any order made under subsection (1) an area may be defined by reference
to a plan deposited in the Land Registry, and a copy of any such plan
purporting to be certified by the Director as a true copy thereof may be
admitted as evidence of the plan without further proof in any criminal or
civil proceedings before any court or magistrate. (Replaced 56 of 1982 s. 3.
Amended 8 of 1993 s. 2)

(3) Any order made and any plan prepared and deposited under the provisions of
this section in force immediately before the commencement* of the Port Control
(Cargo Working Areas) (Amendment) Ordinance 1982 (56 of 1982) shall be deemed
for all purposes to have been made, or prepared and deposited, as the case may
be, under this section as amended by that Ordinance. (Replaced 56 of 1982 s.3)