### Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance 《古物及古蹟條例》

18. Board may advise Authority
The Board may advise the Authority on any matters relating to antiquities, proposed monuments or monuments or referred to it for consultation under section 2A(1), section 3(1) or section 6(4).
(Amended 38 of 1982 s. 12)

19. Offences
(1) Any person who—
(a) knowingly makes a false statement to the Authority or to a designated person as to the situation or circumstances of the discovery of an antiquity;
(b) contravenes section 11(1), or section 12; (Amended 38 of 1982 s. 13)
(c) without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a request made to him by the Authority or a designated person under section 11(2); or
(d) wilfully obstructs the Authority, or any designated person authorized by him, in the exercise of his powers under section 5(1) or section 11(6),
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) Any person who contravenes section 6(1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 6 and imprisonment for 1 year. (Added 38 of 1982 s. 13)
(Amended E.R. 6 of 2019)

20. Evidence
(1) Subject to this section, in any civil or criminal proceedings if it is proved that a relic or alleged relic was in Hong Kong after the date of commencement* of this Ordinance, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the discovery of the relic or alleged relic occurred after that date.
(2) A presumption arising under subsection (1) shall be rebutted if the court is satisfied that the relic or alleged relic—
(a) has been in the possession of a party to the proceedings, or of such a party and any identifiable person from whom he acquired possession, for a period of not less than 6 years prior to the commencement of the proceedings; or
(b) has at any time before the commencement of the proceedings been imported into Hong Kong.
(3) In any civil or criminal proceedings a certificate, purporting to be signed by the Authority and stating that anything is an antiquity, shall be admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

20A. Service by post
Any document or notice to be served or given under this Ordinance may be served or given by registered post.
(Added 38 of 1982 s. 14)

### Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance 《古物及古蹟條例》

21. Payments to be made from funds provided by the Legislative Council
A sum—
(a) granted under section 7;
(b) awarded as compensation under section 8 or 9;
(c) awarded under section 11(4),
shall be paid from such money as may be provided from time to time by the Legislative Council.

22. Regulations
(1) The Chief Executive in Council may make regulations— (Amended 59 of 2000 s. 3)
(a) prescribing the forms of licences and permits;
(b) prescribing the manner in which applications for licences and permits shall be made;
(c) prescribing the fees (if any) to be paid to the Authority upon the grant or renewal of licences;
(d) regulating the conduct of excavations and searches for antiquities;
(e) providing for the management and control of antiquities, proposed monuments and monuments; (Amended 38 of 1982 s. 15)
(f) providing for the prohibition and control of access to excavations, proposed monuments, monuments and sites, and for the payment, restriction and regulation of entrance fees thereto; and (Amended 38 of 1982 s. 15)
(g) generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) No regulations made under this Ordinance shall—
(a) prohibit or restrict the access to a proposed monument or monument of the owner or lawful occupier of the proposed monument or monument or of any person beneficially interested therein, or of any person authorized by the owner, occupier or such person; or (Amended 38 of 1982 s. 15)
(b) confer upon a person any right which he would not otherwise have had to enter upon private land.

### Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Supply Companies) Regulations

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Supply Companies) Regulations.

### Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Supply Companies) Regulations

3. Only registered gas supply company may carry on business of gas supply company, etc.
(1) Subject to subregulation (2), no person other than a registered gas supply company shall carry on the business of a gas supply company.
(2) A person may supply liquefied petroleum gas if he has the approval in writing so to do of the registered gas supply company which imports or manufactures such gas.

4. Qualification for registration
A company is qualified to be registered as a gas supply company if, having regard to the scope of the company’s proposed business operations and the liabilities the company may incur in the course of carrying on the business of a gas supply company, the company has sufficient material resources to carry on business as a gas supply company.

5. Application for registration
(1) A company may make an application in an approved form to the Authority to be registered as a gas supply company but, in any case, the company shall state in that form its address for service by post.
(2) An application under subregulation (1) shall be accompanied by a fee of $18,940. (L.N. 316 of 1993; L.N. 606 of 1994; L.N. 37 of 1997; L.N. 25 of 1998; L.N. 138 of 1998)

6. Information and particulars to be furnished
(1) An applicant shall furnish to the Authority such information and particulars as the Authority requires for the purpose of determining whether registration as a gas supply company should be granted or refused.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subregulation (1), the Authority may under that subregulation require an applicant to submit to him such information and particulars as the Authority requires for the purpose of ascertaining how that applicant proposes to comply with regulation 10 if it is granted registration.
(3) For the purpose referred to in subregulation (1), the Authority may require the attendance before him of a representative of the applicant, being an individual authorized in writing by the applicant to so attend, and may examine any such representative who so attends.

### Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Supply Companies) Regulations

7. Determination of application
(1) Subject to this regulation, upon receipt of an application, the Authority shall, as soon as practicable, by notice served on the applicant—
(a) grant registration to the applicant as a gas supply company subject to such reasonable conditions, if any, as the Authority thinks fit; or
(b) refuse to grant registration to the applicant as a gas supply company.
(2) The Authority shall not grant registration to an applicant as a gas supply company unless he is satisfied that—
(a) the applicant is qualified under regulation 4 to be so registered; and
(b) in all the circumstances, the applicant, if so registered, would be capable of complying with the requirements under the Ordinance with which it is its obligation to comply, in particular in relation to the safety of members of the public.
(3) Where the Authority—
(a) grants registration as a gas supply company to an applicant subject to conditions; or
(b) refuses to grant registration as a gas supply company to an applicant,
he shall specify in the notice concerned under subregulation (1) his reasons for such imposition of conditions or refusal of registration, as the case may be.

8. Issue of certificate of registration
Where the Authority grants registration to an applicant as a gas supply company, he shall issue to the applicant a certificate of registration—
(a) in the approved form as evidence of such registration; and
(b) endorsed with any conditions to which such registration is subject.