AIR ARMAMENT PRACTICE ORDINANCE

AIR ARMAMENT PRACTICE ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

AIR ARMAMENT PRACTICE ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 194





CHAPTER 194

AIR ARMAMENT PRACTICE ORDINANCE

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section Page

1. Short title ... ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... ... 2

2. 1 Interpretation ........................... ... 2
3. Practice range ............................. ... ... ... 2

4. Practice programmes and notices,... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
S. Restriction upon days s of firing ... ...

6. Practice signals ........................... ... 3

Offences while practice signals are displayed ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
8. Offences and provisions relating to the recovery ... ...

9. Penalty for offences ....................... ... ... 4

10. Officers authorized to arrest or remove trespassers. etc . ... ... ... ... ... ...
11. Exemptions ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
12- Power of Governor in Council to amend Schedules ... ... ... ... ... ...

First Schedule. Practice Range 1 .. ... ... ... ... .. 1 ... 11. 1 .. ... ... 5
Second Schedule. List of Persons to he Supplied with with programmes in Notices and Charts 5
Third Schedule. Practice Signals ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...





CHAPTER 194

AIR ARMAMENT PRACTICE

To regulate practice bombing and firing from aircraft and for clearing
certain sea areas in connexion therewith

1 [19 August 1949.1

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Air Armament Practice
Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance. unless the context otherwise requires

aircraft includes all balloons (x,,.hether fixed or free). kites. gliders.
airships. aeroplanes, seaplanes. flying boats and other flying
machines.

Officer Commanding--- means the officer for the time being
commanding Royal Air Force. Hong Kong.

means air armament practice by bombing and by, air to
ground firing by guns or rocket projectiles or missiles from aircraft..

---practicerange- means any area over and on to which practice may be
carried out;

.,vessel'* has the meaning assigned to lit in the Merchant Shipping
Ordinance.

3. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance. practice may take
place over any practice range specified in the First Schedule:

Provided that when any person. vessel or aircraft is within danger
in or over a practice range all practice shall cease.

4. (1) A provisional programme of practice shall be circulated at the
commencement of every quarter by the Air Officer Commanding, in
respect of the practice range to the persons enumerated in the Second
Schedule. such programme being subject to alteration from time to time.
if necessary.

(2) Such officer shall supply to such persons as many charts.
showing the practice range. as they may require.

(3) Such officer shall also cause to be published notice of intended
practice at least 7 clear days before the date on which the





practice is to take place and shall supply to the persons enumerated in
the Second Schedule as many copies of such notice as they may require,
and, shall deliver not less than 7 clear days before the practice
commences, copies of such notice to such persons as the Regional
Secretary (New Territories) may specify. (Amended, L.N. 94174 and L.N.
17,182)

(4) Such notice shall contain warnings to masters of vessels, or
pilots of aircraft exempt from the operation of this Ordinance under
section 11, to assist the carrying out of the practice by hastening
through the practice range or in the case of vessels by consenting to be
towed out of such area, if necessary, by any vessel acting under the
orders of the Air Officer Commanding.

(Amended, 54 of 1954. s. 3)

5. (1) No practice shall take place over any, area of the practice
range on more than 5 days in any week. (Added, 54 qf 1954, s. 4)

(2) No practice shall take place over the area described in the First
Schedule on any Sunday or Saturday:

Provided that the Governor in Council may. permit practice to take
place over the said area on not more than 6 Sundays in any, one
calendar year. (Replaced, 23 of 19563 s. 2)

6. Warning that practice is about to take place shall be given in the
manner specified in the Third Schedule.

7. While warning is in force as given by the hoisting or display of
signals as provided in section 6 that practice is taking place, then in
respect of the area affected by the said warning

(a)no person shall enter or remain within the area. nor bring, take
or suffer to remain therein any vessel, aircraft or thing, except
as provided in section 1 f;

(b) no vessel shall be employed in fishing in the area..

(c) no pleasure boat shall cruise in the area:

(d)no vessel shall anchor or remain anchored in or ground on the
area;

(e)no aircraft shall alight on, remain in or travel upon the area;

in the event of any vessel or aircraft being from any cause
within the area, the master or pilot or other person in charge
thereof shall use his utmost endeavours to pass out of the
area without loss of time.

8. (1) No person shall trawl, dredge or search for or otherwise
interfere with any practice bomb, bullet. shell or rocket projectile or
portions thereof within the practice range, or take or retain. or be in
possession of, any such practice bomb. bullet, shell or rocket projectile,
or portions thereof, found within any of such area.





(2) Any person who, when trawling, dredging, or in any manner
whatsoever, shall come into possession of any such practice bomb,
bullet, shell, or rocket projectile or any portion thereof, within the
practice range, shall not retain it, but shall immediately return it in its
existing condition, and without tampering with it, into the water.

(3) The provisions of this section shall not apply in cases of
persons who recover any practice bomb, bullet, shell or rocket projectile
or any portion thereof, under written instructions from the Air Officer
Commanding.

9. (1) Any person doing anything prohibited by or otherwise
contravening section 7 or 8 shall be deemed to commit an offence.
(Aniended, 20 of 1948, s. 4)

(2) If any person commits an offence against this Ordinance he
may be removed by any officer authorized by section 10 from the
practice range, and may be taken into custody without warrant, and
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of 5250. Any vessel,
aircraft or thing found in the practice range in contravention of this
Ordinance may be removed by such officer as aforesaid and may be
forfeited on summary conviction of the person responsible for such
contravention. (Amended, 20 of 1948, 4 and 9 of 1950. Schedule)

10. The following officers are hereby authorized to remove or to
take into custody without warrant any person contravening section 7 or
8, or to remove any vessel, aircraft or thing found on the practice range

(a) the officer in charge of the practice range;

(b)any officer, warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or
military policeman, for the time being under the command of
the said officer in charge of the practice range;

(e)any person authorized in writing under the hand of the said
officer in charge of the practice range; or

(d) any police officer.

11. This Ordinance shall not apply to-

(a)any vessel or aircraft compelled to enter or unable to quit the
practice range by reason of the exigencies of navigation;

(b)any vessel employed in tending, placing or replacing mark
buoys or other aids to navigation within the practice range;

(c)Her Majesty's ships of war or aircraft, or any vessel or aircraft
employed under The Ministry of Defence authority or under
the Government of the Colony.





12. The Governor in Council may by order signified in the Gazette
amend the Schedules in any manner whatsoever provided that no
amendment of a practice range shall extend any such area beyond the
Colony and its territorial waters.

(Amended, 9 of 1950, Schedule)

FIRST SCHEDULE [s.
3.1

PRACTICE RANGE
Note-(1)No practice shall take place over the area hereinafter described on any
Saturday or any general holiday specified in or appointed under the
provisions of the Holidays Ordinance.

(2) All Latitudes are N. and all Longitudes E.

(3)All map references are taken from Edition I-GSGS. Series L8811
(1:25,000), sheet 20.

The area included in the Practice Range is bound as follows

By a line starting at a point 100 yards cast of the coast at grid reference KV
188720 (Lat. 22 19' 50', Long. 114 16' 12') east-wards to grid reference KV
220720 (Lat. 22 19' 5V, Long. 114 18' 03'), thence south-cast'ards to grid
reference KV 232704 (Lat. 22 ITOW, Long. 114 18' 4Y) thence to grid reference
KV 259693 (Lat. 22 18' 27'. Long. 114 20' 2V), thence south-westwards to grid
reference KV 248673 (Lat. 22 17' 2Y, Long. 114' 19' 46'), thence to the centre of
Steep Island, grid reference KV 230661 (Lat. 22 16' 39', Long. 114 18'42---
),thence north-westwardsto a point 100 yards from the coast at grid reference KV
201712 (Lat. 22 19' -15'. Long. 114 16' 58') thence in a north-westerly direction
running 100 yards cast of the coast to the starting point.

Replaced. L.N. 123 6

SECOND SCHEDULE [s. 4.1

LIST OF PERSONS TO BE SUPPLIED M ITH PROGRAMMES.
NOTICES AND CHARTS

Chief Secretary. Secretary for Lands and
and Works, Director of Lands,
Director of Marine, Commissioner of
Police, Director of Civil Aviation,
Regional Secretary (New Territories),
General Officer Commanding, Hong Kong.
Captain in Charge, Hong Kong, Secretary,
Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club.

(Amended, L.N. 259, 75: L.N. 17 8-7 and L.N. 76 82)

THIRD SCHEDULE
5.


PRACTICE SIGNALS

sheet 20.

1 Notice that practice is taking place at the practice ranee shall be given by
hoisting of the following signs

A red flag flown from the following points-







KV 172734, 184714, 195707, 207684, 218677. 219698 and on
buoys at KV 208723, 259693, 226650.

2. The signals in respect of practice shall be hoisted one hour before such
practice is due to commence. Signals shall remain hoisted until practice has ceased.
when they shall be hauled down.

(Replaced, L.N. 123 65)
Restriction upon days of firing. First schedule. Practice signals. Third Schedule. Offences while practice signals are displayed. Offences and provisions relating to the recovery of projectiles. Originally 38 of 1949. (Cap. 194. 1950.) 20 of 1948. G.N.A. 28/50. G.N.A. 44/50. 5 of 1950. 9 of 1950. G.N.A. 95/50. G.N.A. 88/52. G.N.A. 153/53. 54 of 1954. G.N.A. 41/56. 23 of 1956. 29 of 1958. G.N.A. 68/58. L.N. 123/65. L.N. 94/74. L.N. 259/75. L. N. 17/82. L.N. 76/82. Short title. Interpretation. (Cap. 281.) Practice range. First schedule. Practice programs and notices. Second Schedule. Penalty for offences. Officers authorized to arrest or remove trespassers, etc. Exemptions. Power of Governor in Council to amend Schedules. (Cap. 149.)

Restriction upon days of firing. First schedule. Practice signals. Third Schedule. Offences while practice signals are displayed. Offences and provisions relating to the recovery of projectiles. Originally 38 of 1949. (Cap. 194. 1950.) 20 of 1948. G.N.A. 28/50. G.N.A. 44/50. 5 of 1950. 9 of 1950. G.N.A. 95/50. G.N.A. 88/52. G.N.A. 153/53. 54 of 1954. G.N.A. 41/56. 23 of 1956. 29 of 1958. G.N.A. 68/58. L.N. 123/65. L.N. 94/74. L.N. 259/75. L. N. 17/82. L.N. 76/82. Short title. Interpretation. (Cap. 281.) Practice range. First schedule. Practice programs and notices. Second Schedule. Penalty for offences. Officers authorized to arrest or remove trespassers, etc. Exemptions. Power of Governor in Council to amend Schedules. (Cap. 149.)

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