### Telecommunications Ordinance 《電訊條例》

15. Disputes as to compensation
(1) Where any dispute arises as to—
(a) whether compensation is payable under section 14(2);
(b) the amount of any such compensation; or
(c) the person to whom it is payable, 

the dispute shall be referred to and determined by the District Court.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a dispute shall be deemed to have arisen where a claimant or the Authority or the licensee, as the case may be, has served notice of intention to refer the dispute to the District Court upon all other parties to the dispute, and the party who has served notice as aforesaid shall, within 2 months thereafter, refer the dispute to the District Court by notice served upon a deputy registrar of the Court giving particulars of the matter in dispute between the parties, and a copy of the last-mentioned notice shall, within the said period, be served upon all other parties.
(3) The District Court may order that the costs incurred by any party in proceedings before it under this section shall be paid by any other party, and may tax or settle the amount of any costs to be paid under any such order, or may direct the manner in which they are to be taxed.
(4) The Chief Justice may, subject to this Ordinance, make rules for regulating proceedings before the District Court under this section.

16. Removal, etc., of line, post or installation where necessary by reason of use of land, etc.
(1) Where any person desires to use land or seabed in a way that makes it necessary to remove to another part of the land or seabed a telecommunications line, post or radiocommunications installation maintained by the Authority or a licensee in, over or upon the land or seabed under section 14 or to alter such telecommunications line, post or radiocommunications installation in any way, he may by written notice served upon the Authority or licensee, as the case may be, require the removal or alteration of the telecommunications line, post or radiocommunications installation and such requirement shall not be unreasonably refused by the Authority or licensee, as the case may be. (Replaced 36 of 2000 s. 9)
(2) Any expenses incurred by the Authority or the licensee in complying with a requirement under subsection (1) may be recovered from the person who made the requirement.

### Telecommunications Ordinance 《電訊條例》

17. Trees interrupting telecommunications
(1) If a tree standing or lying near a telecommunications line or radiocommunications installation interrupts, or is likely to interrupt telecommunications, a magistrate may, upon application by the Authority or the licensee concerned, as the case may be, order the tree to be removed or otherwise dealt with in such a way as to prevent the interruption, or the likelihood of the interruption, of telecommunications and, if the tree was in existence at the time the telecommunications line or radiocommunications installation was placed in, over or upon the land, may order the Authority or the licensee, as the case may be, to pay to the owner of the tree such sum by way of compensation as he thinks reasonable. (Amended 36 of 2000 ss. 10 & 28)
(2) Any order of a magistrate in proceedings under subsection (1) shall be final.

18. Work affecting telecommunications lines, etc.
(1) Any person who proposes to carry out on any land or seabed work that may affect a telecommunications line or radiocommunications installation maintained by the Authority or a licensee in, over, upon or near the land or seabed shall give to the Authority or the licensee, as the case may be, notice in writing of his intention to carry out the work.
(2) All reasonable precautions shall be taken in the carrying out of such work to prevent damage to any telecommunications line or radiocommunications installation in, over, upon or near the land or seabed, and the Authority or the licensee, as the case may be, may recover from the person on whose behalf the work is carried out any expenses incurred in making good any damage to a telecommunications line or radiocommunications installation caused by a failure to take such precautions.
(3) In any proceedings under subsection (2) for the recovery of the expenses incurred by the Authority or the licensee, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the work was carried out on behalf of the owner of the land or seabed.
(Amended 36 of 2000 ss. 11 & 28)

### Telecommunications Ordinance 《電訊條例》

18A. Requirements relating to work near underground telecommunications lines
(1) A person must not carry out, or cause or permit another to carry out, any work below ground level near an underground telecommunications line, unless the person takes, before the work begins, all reasonable steps to ascertain—
(a) whether any underground telecommunications line exists within or near the proposed work site; and
(b) if so—the alignment and depth of the line.
(2) If a person carries out, or causes or permits another to carry out, any work below ground level at a work site within which, or near which, an underground telecommunications line exists, the person must ensure that all reasonable measures are taken to prevent—
(a) any damage to the line; or
(b) any interruption to a telecommunications service,
arising from the work.
(Added 38 of 2021 s. 5)

19. Power to enter on land, etc., to inspect, repair, etc., telecommunications lines, etc.
The Authority and a licensee may at such times as may be necessary enter upon any land or seabed in, over or upon which the Authority or licensee maintains a telecommunications line, post or radiocommunications installation for the purpose of inspecting, repairing, removing or altering the telecommunications line, post or radiocommunications installation.
(Replaced 36 of 2000 s. 12. Amended 17 of 2011 s. 28)

19A. Interpretation
(1) In this Part and in section 29, land (土地) includes common parts

19B. Right of access to public telecommunications services
(1) A term in a lease agreement, deed of mutual covenant or commercial contract that, in all the circumstances of the case, unreasonably restricts the right of a resident or occupier, or deprives a resident or occupier of the right, to have access to the public telecommunications services of his choice is void on and after the day on which this section comes into operation to the extent only that it imposes such restriction.
(2) Subsection (1) shall apply to any agreement, deed or contract entered into before, on or after the day on which this section comes into operation*.
(Added 36 of 2000 s. 14)

### Telecommunications Ordinance 《電訊條例》

20. Contravention of section 8 an offence
Any person who contravenes section 8(1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2 years; and
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 5 years.
(Amended 17 of 1972 s. 3; 18 of 1994 s. 2; E.R. 2 of 2012)

21. Contravention of section 9 an offence
Any person who contravenes section 9 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 4 and to imprisonment for 12 months.
(Amended 18 of 1994 s. 3; E.R. 2 of 2012)

22. Penalty in event of contravention of section 10, 11 or 12
In the event of a contravention of section 10(1), 11(1) or 12, the master of the vessel or the captain of the aircraft, as the case may be, or the person at whose direction the radiocommunications apparatus was used, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 5.
(Amended 18 of 1994 s. 4; 36 of 2000 s. 28; E.R. 2 of 2012)