TREES PRESERVATION ORDINANCE, 1888

TREES PRESERVATION ORDINANCE, 1888

ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1888.

Trees Preservation

AN ORDINANCE to make provision for the Preservation of Trees.
[4th April,1888.]
WHEREAS great damage is done to trees and plantations in the
neighbourhood of the respective vilages of this Colony;and
whereas it is frequently difficult or impossible to discover the persons
who have committed such damage;
BE it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong,with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,as follows:-
1.This Ordinance may be cited as the Trees Preservation Ordinance,
1888.
2.Whenever it is proved,to the satisfaction of the Governor-in-
Council,that trees or plantations belonging to Government in the neigh-
bourhood of any village in this Colony have been felled,cut,mutilated,
lopped,barked,or otherwise damaged or destroyed,and that there is
sufficient reason to believe that such damage or destruction was commit-
ted by the inhabitants of the said village or by any of them,it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council,by order under his hand,to levy a
special rate assessed upon such village to an amount sufficient to cover
the damage done;and such increased assessment shall take effect from
the earliest day after such order on which it can be brought into force,
and shall continue until the Governor-in-Council,by a further order
under his hand,revokes or alters the original order,which the Governor-
in-Council shall do when he is satisfied that the injuries to trees on
account of which the original order was issued have ceased or that they
were not committed by the inhabitants of such village.
3.Every such order shall be read as forming part of any Ordinance
for the time being in force relating to rating.
4.Nothing in this Ordinance shall operate to prevent any person from
being prosecuted for injuring or cutting down trees,or for the stealing
or unlawful possession of wood,under any enactment under which,
before the commencement of this Ordinance,he might have been so
prosecuted.
A.D. 1888. Ordinance No. 14 of 1888. Short title. Power to levy special rate upon village to make good damage to Government trees. Order to be read with Rating Ordinance. See Ordinance No. 6 of 1901. Saving of liability to other penalties.

A.D. 1888. Ordinance No. 14 of 1888. Short title. Power to levy special rate upon village to make good damage to Government trees. Order to be read with Rating Ordinance. See Ordinance No. 6 of 1901. Saving of liability to other penalties.

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