EARTH CUTTING REGULATIONS

EARTH CUTTING REGULATIONS

SCHEDULE.

UNDERTAKING TO PROTECT TREES, &C., NEAR
MATSHED.

In consideration of the issue to the undersigned .....................
of a permit to erect .......matshed at for the
housing of [workmen] ...........hereby undertake to make good
any loss or destruction of or damage to any trees, shrubs or under
growth or other Government property on unleased Crown land within
a distance of 500 yards from any part of any matshed erected
under such permit, occurring while such matshed stands, unless
................................. can prove to the satisfaction of the Building
Authority that such loss, destruction or damage has not occurred through the
act, neglect or default of any person employed by
........................... or any person making use of any
such matshed,
and hereby agree that the amount of any such
loss, destruction or damage for which may be liable
under this document, as assessed by the Forestry Officer, may be
deducted f rom the sum of $ which have
deposited with the Accountant General as security for that purpose.
As witness ........hand this day of
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Witness.

EARTH CUTTING REGULATIONS.
(Schedule M to the Buildings Ordinance).

(Cap. 123, sections 123 and 166).
(Ordinance No. 18 Of 1935).

[1st January 1936.]

Regulations as to obtaining stone, earth, sand, clay or turf
from Crown land.
1. No person shall cut or remove earth, sand,or turf, or collect,
extract, split, blast or remove stones from any land not under lease from
the Crown, without having previously obtained a written permit from the
Director of Public Works, and such permit must be kept by the head
workman on the ground and shall be produced whenever required by
the Director of Public Works or any officer deputed by him, or by the
police, and shall have stated in it the period for which it will be available.





2. The place where stone, earth, sand or turf is to be obtained shall,
where practicable, be stated in the permit.

3. As each case may require special precautions, the permit-holder
must obey any special instructions of the Director of Public Works
endorsed on the permit.

4. Permits for the obtaining of stone will be limited to the collection
of loose boulders.

5. Any permit may be limited to the collection of a stated quantity.

6. No stone shall be rolled on to, or left deposited upon, any public
road or allowed to roll over any hill-slope to the danger of life or
property or to the detriment of trees.

7. MI escarpments caused b). the cutting on unleased Crown land
must be sloped uniformly and properly turfed upon completion of the
excavation.

8. Any infringement of these regulations will entitle the Director of
Public Works to cancel and withdraw the permit without notice, and will
render the person to whom the permit was granted liable upon summary
conviction to a penalty of one hundred dollars.

9. The Director of Public Works shall have power at any time to
cancel and withdraw a permit, without giving any notice or assigning
any cause for such withdrawal.

10. *The permit-holder is to provide a competent foreman, who is to
remain on the ground during the whole of the time the men are obtaining
the material, for the purpose of ensuring that the work is carried out
without undermining or prejudically affecting or endangering the
stability of any bank or of any land or property adjoining, and to prevent
the rolling of stones over any hill-slope to the danger of life or property
or to the detriment of trees, and to see that all regulations and conditions
attached to the permit are properly complied with.





11. The charges to be made in respect to each and every permit
granted by the Director of Public Works under these regulations shall
be determined by him in each case.

12. As regard s the New Territories, except New Kowloon, these
regulations shall be read and construed as if the words 'District
Commissioner- appeared instead of the words 'Director of Public
Works'.

13. These regulations may be cited as the Earth Cutting
Regulations.

CHAPTER 124.
(Ordinance No. 10 of 1900)
CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION.
No subsidiary legislation.

CHAPTER 125.
(Ordinance No. 4 Of 1936)
CROWN RENTS (APPORTIONMENT).
No subsidiary legislation.
Ord. 18 of 1935, Schedule M. Ord. 50/38. Ord. 50/38. s. 5.

Ord. 18 of 1935, Schedule M. Ord. 50/38. Ord. 50/38. s. 5.

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