Hong Kong Regulations

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL (SEWERAGE) REGULATION - SECT 7

Authority may undertake works

PART IV

POWER OF AUTHORITY TO UNDERTAKE WORKS, ETC.

(1) Where any works specified in a notice served under section 3, 4, 5 or 6
have not been carried out or are not completed within the time specified in
the notice, the Authority may undertake the works.

(2) For the purpose of undertaking works under subsection (1) the Authority
may, subject to subsection (3), at all reasonable times enter upon any land or
premises on or under which the works are to be carried out or through which
access is needed to carry out the works.

(3) Not less than 28 days before undertaking the works the Authority shall-

   (a)  serve a notice on the owner of the land or premises on or under which
        the works are to be carried out, and of any land or premises through
        which access is needed to carry out the works;

   (b)  if such land is occupied, give notice in writing to the occupier of,
        or post a notice on, the land or premises; and

   (c)  in the case of works specified in a notice served under section  6 ,
        serve a notice on the owner of the wastewater treatment facility,
        stating the nature and probable extent of the works and when they will
        commence.

(4) Following completion of the works the Authority shall reinstate the
entered land or premises, as far as it is practicable to do so, to the
condition it was in before the entry.

(5) All costs incurred by the Authority in carrying out works under this
section are recoverable as a civil debt due to the Government from the person
liable to carry out the works specified in the notice referred to in
subsection (1), regardless of whether that person has been convicted of an
offence under section 27.

(6) In this section, "works" (工程) means any thing the Authority may
require to be done by notice served under section 3, 4, 5 or 6. (Enacted 1994)

"works" (工程)