Hong Kong Ordinances Hong Kong Ordinances
- CHAPTER 285
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Property in and control of minerals declared to be vested in the
Government
4. Prospecting and mining restricted
5. Ordinance not to apply to mineral oils
6. Saving of sacred areas, trees and other objects of veneration
7. Holder of mining title not resident in Hong Kong to appoint
attorney resident in Hong Kong
8. Plans of prospecting and mining operations
9. Lands excluded from prospecting and mining
10. Royalties
11. Chief Executive may close areas to prospecting or mining
12. Compensation where action is taken under section 11
13. Prospecting licences
14. Rights of the holder
15. Duties of the holder
16. Ownership and disposal of minerals
17. Further prospecting licences for same area
18. Cancellation of prospecting licence
19. Mining
20. Mining licences
21. Cancellation of mining licence
22. Mining leases
23. Requirements as to capital
24. Duration and renewal of mining lease
25. Rights under a mining licence or mining lease
26. Assignment, etc. of mining rights
27. Diversion or pollution of waters prohibited
28. Purification of water
28A. Discharges and deposits under Water Pollution Control Ordinance
29. Power of Commissioner to close mine
30. Acceptance of rent not to operate as a waiver of right of re-entry
or forfeiture
31. Power of Director of Lands to revoke a mining lease
32. Mining Compensation Board
33. Compensation for disturbance of surface of surface rights, etc.
34. Meaning of specified minerals for purposes of this Part
35. Possession of specified minerals
36. Purchase of specified minerals
37. Licence to purchase specified minerals
38. Duty of seller of specified minerals to satisfy himself that
purchaser is licensed to buy
39. Holder of licence to satisfy himself that the seller is authorized
to possess and dispose of specified minerals
40. Duty of licensee
41. Cancellation of Authorized Buyer's Licence
41A. Appeals
42. Appointment of mines officers
43. Functions of the Superintendent of Mines
44. Powers of mines officers
45. Power to enter upon land and inspect, etc.
46. Public officers may be authorized to discharge functions of mines
officer
47. Accidents to be reported
48. Commissioner of Mines to decide if inquiry by Superintendent shall
be held in certain cases
49. Procedure if inquiry conducted by Commissioner
50. Saving
51. Unlawful prospecting and mining
52. Penalty for contraventions of section 8, 15, 27 or 28
53. Offences and penalties in relation to possession and purchase of
minerals
54. Fraud by applicant for prospecting licence or mining licence
55. Wilfully or recklessly giving false information or withholding
information, and contravention of section 66(8)
56. Interfering with mining prospecting or the exercise of any right
conferred by this Ordinance
57. Salting
58. Liability of employer for offences committed by his employees
59. Forfeiture
60. Service of documents
61. Right of the Chief Executive to take materials
62. Government servants prohibited from acquiring rights
63. Officers empowered to conduct prosecutions
64. Lateral limits
65. Resumption of land required for public purposes
66. Power of Director of Lands and Commissioner to require giving of
security, and provisions in connection therewith
67. Power of Chief Executive in Council to make regulations
68. Saving
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