Hong Kong Regulations

RABIES REGULATION - SECT 31

Duplicate licence, certificate or permit

PART VII

MISCELLANEOUS

(1) If the holder of a licence, certificate or permit granted or issued under
is Regulation satisfies the Director that the licence, certificate or permit
has been lost, destroyed or defaced, the Director may, upon payment of the
appropriate fee prescribed in Part I of Schedule 1, issue to him a duplicate
licence, certificate or permit so marked, and the duplicate licence,
certificate or permit shall have the same effect as the original licence,
certificate or permit.

(2) No person shall apply for a duplicate of a licence, certificate or permit
granted or issued under this Regulation on the ground that the original
licence, certificate or permit is lost or destroyed knowing that such original
licence, certificate or permit has not been lost or destroyed.

(3) The original licence, certificate or permit granted or issued under this
Regulation that has been defaced shall be surrendered to the Director for
cancellation together with the application for a duplicate thereof.

(4) On the issue of a duplicate licence, certificate or permit under
subsection (1), the original licence, certificate or permit shall cease to be
valid.

(5) If at any time after the issue of a duplicate licence, certificate or
permit under subsection (1) and during the currency of such duplicate licence,
certificate or permit the original licence, certificate or permit is found,
the person to whom such original licence, certificate or permit was granted or
issued shall as soon as he becomes aware of such finding report the finding
thereof to the Director and shall take all reasonable steps to obtain
possession of it and return it as soon as possible to the Director for
cancellation.

(6) Where owing to circumstances beyond his control the Director is unable for
the time being to issue a duplicate licence, certificate or permit, the
receipt issued by him for the payment of the fee for the duplicate licence,
certificate or permit shall be deemed for the purposes of this Regulation to
be a valid licence, certificate or permit in place of the original, until the
duplicate licence, certificate or permit is issued or the expiry of a period
of 30 days after the issue of the receipt, whichever is the earlier.

(7) A person who contravenes subsection (2) or (5) commits an offence and is
liable to a fine of $2000. (Enacted 1994)