### Timber Stores Ordinance 《木料倉條例》

12. Regulations
(1) The Chief Executive in Council may by regulation— (Amended 71 of 1999 s. 3)
(a) prescribe anything required or permitted to be prescribed under this Ordinance;
(b) provide for precautions to be taken against fire in any licensed timber store;
(c) provide for the issue of a duplicate of a licence;
(d) provide for the fees that may be charged for and in relation to the grant, transfer, endorsement of transfer and the renewal of a licence, the amendment of the conditions or the particulars of a licence where the amendment is at the request of a licensee, and the issue of a duplicate of a licence;
(e) generally, provide for the better carrying into effect of the provisions and purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) Any regulation made under this section may provide that a contravention thereof shall be an offence and may provide penalties for such offence not exceeding a fine at level 5.

13. Offences in relation to a licence
(1) Any person who on any occasion operates, keeps, manages or otherwise has control of a licensed timber store in contravention of any condition of the licence commits an offence.
(2) Where an offence under subsection (1) is alleged to have been committed, proof that a defendant did any act in connection with the operation, keeping, management or other control of a timber store is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof that the defendant operated, kept, managed or otherwise had control of a timber store.
(3) Where a condition of a licence is contravened the licensee commits an offence unless he proves that—
(a) he did not know and had no reason to suspect the existence of the circumstances giving rise to the contravention; and
(b) he could not, by the exercise of reasonable supervision and reasonable diligence, have prevented those circumstances arising.
(4) Any person who makes any false or misleading statement or furnishes any false or misleading information in connection with any application for the grant, renewal or transfer of a licence commits an offence.
(5) Any person who commits an offence under this section is liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

14. Aids in proof
(1) A licence or a copy thereof purporting to be certified under the hand of the Director shall be evidence of the facts stated therein as at the date of such licence or such copy thereof and shall be received in evidence without further proof.
(2) A certificate purporting to be certified under the hand of the Director and stating that a timber store is licensed or is not licensed shall be evidence of the facts stated therein as at the date of such certificate and shall be received in evidence without further proof.

### Timber Stores Ordinance 《木料倉條例》

15. Existing licences
(1) A timber store licence granted under the Miscellaneous Licences Ordinance (Cap. 114) and in force immediately before the commencement* of this Ordinance shall continue in force after such commencement and have effect according to its tenor as if it were a licence granted under section 4 of this Ordinance.
(2) The Director may, in regard to any licence to which subsection (1) applies, by notice in writing served upon the licensee or sent by registered post to the address of the licensee appearing on the licence, impose such conditions in relation to the operation, keeping, management or other control of a timber store on the licence as he thinks fit.

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 17 March 1995.

### Sewage Services Ordinance 《污水處理服務條例》

1. Short title and commencement
(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Sewage Services Ordinance.
(2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands by notice in the Gazette.

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
agent (代理人) has the same meaning as in the Waterworks Ordinance (Cap. 102);
communal drain (公用排水渠) means a drain that is not used exclusively by one discharger;
communal service (公用供水系統) has the same meaning as in the Waterworks Ordinance (Cap. 102);
communal sewer (公用下水道) means a sewer that is not used exclusively by one discharger;
consumer (用戶) has the same meaning as in the Waterworks Ordinance (Cap. 102);
domestic sewage (住宅污水) means waste of a kind and quantity that is generated by the use of a toilet, water closet, bath, shower, sink, basin or other sanitary fitment in domestic premises or while at a place of work;
Drainage Authority (排水事務監督) means the Director of Drainage Services or his authorized representative;
sewage charge (排污費) means a charge imposed under section 3(1);
trade effluent (工商業污水) means any effluent, either with or without particles of matter in suspension therein, that is wholly or in part produced in the course of any trade, business or manufacture;
trade effluent surcharge (工商業污水附加費) means a trade effluent surcharge imposed under section 4;
wastewater (廢水) means water that is directly or indirectly used in or generated by human activity;
Water Authority (水務監督) means the Director of Water Supplies.

### Sewage Services Ordinance 《污水處理服務條例》

3. Sewage charges
(1) A consumer whose premises are connected, whether directly or indirectly, to a communal drain or a communal sewer which is vested in and maintained by the Government, for the purpose of removing wastewater therefrom shall pay, or if there is a communal service, the agent shall pay, to the Government a sewage charge at a prescribed rate based on the volume of water supplied to the premises by the Water Authority, other than water supplied specifically for flushing purposes.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where the Waterworks Regulations (Cap. 102 sub. leg. A) provide that there shall be no charge in respect of a prescribed volume of water supplied for domestic purposes, no sewage charge shall be payable in respect of such water provided for such purpose. (Amended E.R. 6 of 2021)
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a regulation may provide that, where premises are used for a prescribed trade, business or manufacture, the charge under subsection (1) shall be based on a prescribed percentage of the volume of water supplied to the premises by the Water Authority, other than water supplied specifically for flushing purposes.
(4) The consumer or agent, as the case may be, shall be billed for, and shall pay, the sewage charge at the same time as for charges under the Waterworks Ordinance (Cap. 102), and sections 10(a), 19(4)(c), 21 and 34(2) and (3) of that Ordinance apply to an unpaid sewage charge as though it were a charge imposed under that Ordinance.
*(5) The Water Authority may increase the amount of a deposit under section 19(1) of the Waterworks Ordinance (Cap. 102) where a consumer or agent is liable to pay sewage charges.

Editorial Note:
* Not yet in operation.