Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY LINES (PROTECTION) REGULATION - SECT 12

Failure to comply with remedial notice

(1) If a person on whom a remedial notice is served fails to remedy the
contravention or the matter occasioning it, as the case may be, within the
period specified in the notice, then the Director may, after giving notice of
his intention to the person, do either or both of the following-

   (a)  he may prohibit the carrying out of all or any particular works on the
        works site;

   (b)  he may himself do, or cause to be done, anything necessary to remedy
        the contravention or the matter occasioning it, as the case may be.

(2) If the Director exercises his power under subsection (1)(a), he shall
display prominently on or near the works site a notice, in the Chinese and
English languages-

   (a)  stating that the carrying out of certain or all works on the
        works site has been prohibited; and

   (b)  setting out the provisions of subsection (3) and section 17(6) and
        (7).

(3) No person shall without the consent in writing of the Director-

   (a)  carry out on the works site any works which he knows or ought
        reasonably to know have been prohibited by the Director under
        subsection

(1)(a); or

   (b)  remove or mark, or damage or destroy, a notice referred to in
        subsection (2).

(4) If the Director takes any action under subsection (1)(b) in connection
with remedying the contravention or the matter occasioning it, the person on
whom the remedial notice was served shall be liable to reimburse the Director
for the amount of any expenses reasonably incurred by the Director in taking
that action, and such amount shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt.

(5) Section 11(6) applies to the giving of a notice under subsection (1) as it
applies to the service of a remedial notice under section 11.