### Waterworks Ordinance 《水務設施條例》

35. Penalties
(1) Any person who is guilty of an offence under this Ordinance shall, unless a penalty is otherwise expressly provided, be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 4.
(2) Any person convicted of an offence under section 29 or section 30(1) or (2) shall, if the offence is a continuing one, be liable to a further fine of $1,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues.
(Amended L.N. 266 of 2006) 

36. Power of arrest
(1) Any public officer, authorized in writing in that behalf by the Water Authority, may arrest any person whom he reasonably suspects of having committed an offence under section 29(1)(e), 30, 31 or 32. 
(2) Where a public officer arrests a person under subsection (1) he shall forthwith take that person to the nearest police station and hand him over to the custody of a police officer, and thereupon section 52 of the Police Force Ordinance (Cap. 232) shall apply. 

36A. Time limit for prosecutions
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a prosecution for a contravention of this Ordinance may be commenced within 6 months beginning on the date immediately after the date on which the contravention is discovered by, or comes to the notice of, the Water Authority.
(2) For a contravention of section 14(3) in relation to the construction or installation of, or alteration to, a fire service or inside service, or any part of it (the works

### Waterworks Ordinance 《水務設施條例》

38. Water Authority may specify notices and forms
(1) A notice under this Ordinance shall be in writing and shall be in such form as may be specified by the Water Authority. 
(2) The Water Authority may specify any forms required for the purposes of this Ordinance. 
(3) The Water Authority may publish in the Gazette any forms specified by him under subsection (2).

38A. Amendment of Schedule
The Secretary for Development may, by notice published in the Gazette, amend the Schedule.
(Added 11 of 2018 s. 11)

39. Transitional and saving provisions
(1) Any notice served, or map of a gathering ground prepared, under the repealed Waterworks Ordinance (Cap. 102, 1964 Ed.) (hereinafter referred to as the repealed Ordinance), and in force at the commencement of this Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been served or prepared under this Ordinance. 
(2) Any person who is a consumer under the repealed Ordinance shall be deemed to be a consumer under this Ordinance and an undertaking given or a deposit paid by a consumer under the repealed Ordinance shall be deemed to be an undertaking given or a deposit paid under this Ordinance.

40. Transitional and saving provisions for Waterworks (Amendment) Ordinance 2018
(1) A permission granted on the application of a licensed plumber before the commencement date for the construction, installation, alteration or removal of a fire service or inside service (the works

### Post Office Ordinance 《郵政署條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Post Office Ordinance.

### Post Office Ordinance 《郵政署條例》

3. Regulations
The Governor in Council may by regulation provide for any of the following matters—
(a) cash on delivery parcels; 
(b) compensation for loss of or damage to postal packets; 
(c) fines for insufficient postage; 
(d) gratuities for the conveyance of postal packets by sea; 
(e) insurance of postal packets; 
(f) late fees; 
(g) limitations of the form, size, weight and contents of postal packets; 
(h) money orders, telegraph money orders, postal orders and postal notes; 
(i) parcels; 
(j) payment of postage; 
(k) postal notes and postal orders; 
(l) private boxes; 
(m) private travelling letter boxes; 
(n) prohibited articles and their treatment and disposal; 
(o) registration; 
(p) stamps, reply coupons, and stamped postal stationery; 
(q) undelivered postal articles; 
(r) the prescribing of any fees which may appear to the Governor in Council to be desirable in connexion with the maintenance of a postal service; 
(s) any other matters in respect of which it may appear to the Governor in Council to be desirable to make regulations for the purpose of the maintenance of a postal service. 
(Amended 33 of 1939; G.N. 840 of 1940 Supp. Schedule)

4. Rates of postage
(1) The Postmaster General may subject to any direction of the Governor in Council determine the rates of postage to be charged on postal articles and the rates for the time being in force shall be exhibited and kept exhibited at the Post Office. 
(2) The Governor in Council may at any time by order revise any rates of postage determined by the Postmaster General and such revised rates shall come into operation as from the notification of such order in the Gazette. 
(Replaced 52 of 1948 s. 2)

4A. Charity postage stamps
(1) With the approval of the Governor in Council, the Postmaster General may issue an adhesive charity postage stamp that bears, in addition to its regular postage denomination, a denomination signifying a donation of that amount by the purchaser to the charitable institution identified on the stamp. 
(2) The Postmaster General shall not sell a charity postage stamp at any place unless a stamp of the same postage denomination is also available for purchase there. 
(3) The Postmaster General may retain from the money received as the donation portion of the sale of charity postage stamps an amount equal to the costs related to them and shall pay the retained amount into the general revenue. 
(Added 21 of 1988 s. 2)

### Post Office Ordinance 《郵政署條例》

5. Appointment of officers
It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a Postmaster General and such other officers of the Post Office as he may think fit. 
(Amended 33 of 1939; G.N. 840 of 1940 Supp. Schedule)