### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

105P. Authority may specify conditions for the use of civic centres, etc.
The Authority may specify the conditions to be observed in the use of—
(a) a civic centre;
(b) a part of a civic centre; or
(c) any facilities provided in a civic centre or part of a civic centre.
(Replaced 78 of 1999 s. 7)

105Q. Grant of use of civic centres
Notwithstanding any power to make regulations under section 105O or to specify conditions conferred by section 105P, the Authority may grant, either gratuitously or for payment, to any person the exclusive use of any part of a civic centre for such period or periods and for such purposes as the Authority may consider fit in each case; and admission by the public to any such part, the exclusive use of which has been so granted, shall be either with or without payment as may be directed either by the Authority or, with the consent of the Authority, by the person to whom the use thereof has been so granted.

106. Provision of public pleasure grounds
(1) The Authority may, from time to time, by order set aside places for use as public pleasure grounds, and may by the same or any subsequent order specify the purpose for which such grounds or any part thereof shall be used.
(2) The places specified in the Fourth Schedule shall be deemed to have been set aside under the provisions of subsection (1) for use as public pleasure grounds.
(3) The Authority shall, as soon as practicable, prepare a plan of every public pleasure ground.
(4) Where the boundaries of any public pleasure ground are so varied, or such pleasure ground is otherwise so changed, as to render any plan deposited in accordance with the provisions of subsection (5) no longer accurate, the Authority shall withdraw the plan so deposited and shall, as soon as practicable, prepare an amended plan or a new plan of such pleasure ground.
(5) Every plan prepared in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) or (4) shall be deposited in the Land Registry. (Amended 8 of 1993 s. 2; 20 of 2002 s. 5)
(6) The Authority may by order amend, or add to or delete from, the Fourth Schedule.
(Amended 9 of 1976 s. 10)

### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

107. Management and control of public pleasure grounds
(1) The general management and control of public pleasure grounds, including the exclusive right to provide amenities of any kind, shall be vested in the Authority.
(2) The Authority may provide and demarcate public pleasure grounds for the conduct of games, sports and leisure activities and make such provision for other facilities for physical and other recreation as it may consider fit. (Amended 78 of 1999 s. 7)
(3) Subject to the provisions of section 106(1) and of subsection (4) the Authority may, from time to time, specify the purpose for which any public pleasure ground or any part of any such ground may be used, whether for the provision of facilities for physical or other recreation or otherwise.
(4) The Chief Executive, where he considers it necessary or desirable, may require the Authority to refrain from using, or permitting the use of, any public pleasure grounds or any part of any public pleasure grounds for any purposes which may have been specified by it under the provisions of subsection (3). (Amended 59 of 2000 s. 3)
(Replaced 32 of 1963 s. 13)

108. Temporary closure of public pleasure grounds, etc.
(1) The Authority may, from time to time and for any purpose, temporarily close to the public the whole or any part of any public pleasure ground.
(2) The Authority may, on the application of any school, club or association or of any individual person, allocate to the same, either gratuitously or on payment of a fee and on such days or for such periods as may be specified, the exclusive use of—
(a) any playing field or playing pitch demarcated under the provisions of section 107 for the conduct of organized games and sports;
(b) any tennis court in any public pleasure ground, any facilities provided under the provisions of section 107 for physical or other recreation or any other part of any public pleasure ground, other than a playing field or playing pitch demarcated under the provisions of that section for the conduct of organized games and sports.

### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

109. Regulations relating to public pleasure grounds
The Authority may in relation to public pleasure grounds, make regulations prescribing or providing for—
(a) proper management and control, including closure or partial closure;
(b) preservation of good order and prevention of abuses and nuisances;
(c) the control (including prohibition) of building, trading or advertising;
(d) the control (including prohibition) of fishing at any beach;
(e) the control (including prohibition) of the use of vessels, boats or other means of water transport, including water-skis and models, at any beach;
(f) (Repealed 49 of 1994 s. 26)(g) the seizure and disposal of any vehicle, vessel, animal or other article or thing in respect of which any regulation made under this section is contravened.

110. Public pleasure ground rules
(1) The Authority may, in relation to a public pleasure ground, make rules which are not inconsistent with regulations made under section 109 to provide for the better control of persons in connection with the use of the public pleasure ground and to provide information relating to the use of the public pleasure ground. (Replaced 78 of 1999 s. 7)
(2) Any person who fails to comply with any rule made under the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

111. Appointment and powers of keepers
(1) The Authority may appoint keepers for public pleasure grounds.
(2) Where any person is found by a keeper of any public pleasure ground to be contravening the provisions of any regulation, rule or order relating to such public pleasure ground, such keeper may arrest such person and deliver him into the custody of a police officer or take him to the nearest police station, whereupon the provisions of sections 51 and 52 of the Police Force Ordinance (Cap. 232) or of section 52 of that Ordinance, as the case may be, shall apply.

111A. Interpretation of this Part
In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires—
private street (私家街道) means a street on land held under Government lease, licence or otherwise from the Government or on land over which the Government has granted or reserved a right of way; (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)
street (街道) includes a private street and any area of land declared to be a street by the Director of Highways. (Amended L.N. 76 of 1982; L.N. 127 of 1986)

### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

111B. Proposal of private street name
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person may propose—
(a) a name of a private street that has not been named; or
(b) a change of name of a private street that has been named,
by notice in writing sent to the Authority.
(2) No person other than the owner of the land that is held under or by virtue of a Government lease and on which the private street is situated may make a proposal under subsection (1) in connection with that private street. (Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105)
(3) The Authority shall, after the receipt of a proposal under subsection (1), consider the application and shall—
(a) make a declaration under section 111C(1)(a) or (b), as the case may be; or
(b) refuse to make a declaration.
(4) Where the Authority under subsection (3) has refused to make a declaration, the Authority shall serve notice of its decision, setting out reasons for its decision, upon the person who made application under subsection (1).
(5) A person on whom a notice under subsection (4) is served may, within 30 days of the date of the notice, appeal to the Municipal Services Appeals Board against the decision of the Authority. (Replaced 78 of 1999 s. 7)