To authorize the making of by-laws by the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited.
[24 April 1908]
(Format changes—E.R. 6 of 2022)
This Ordinance may be cited as the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited (By-laws) Ordinance.
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
car park (停車場) means an area or space or part of such area or space situated on any of the company’s piers or premises and which is marked out or used for the parking or driving of vehicles; (Added 38 of 1971 s. 2) company (公司) means the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, its successors and assigns; official of the company (公司職員) includes only the persons acting in the following capacities: director, general manager, manager, secretary, chief clerk, berthing master, superintendent engineer, cargo superintendent, wharfinger; vehicle (車輛) means a mechanically propelled vehicle intended or adapted for use on roads. (Added 38 of 1971 s. 2)(Amended 50 of 1911; 12 of 1912; 43 of 1912; G.N. 246 of 1913 Supp. Schedule)
The company may, with the approval of the Chief Executive in Council, make by-laws for— (Amended 61 of 2000 s. 3)
the conduct of its business and the maintenance of order on its premises;
the prohibition, either conditionally or otherwise, of the use by passengers or by the public of the company’s piers and premises;
the control of the use of a car park, including the limitations of such use to any particular person or vehicle or any class of persons or vehicles;
the fees payable for the use of a car park;
the removal from a car park of a vehicle, without notice to the owner thereof, in respect of which there has been a contravention of any by-law made pursuant to this section, and the fees payable in respect of such removal;
the disposal, by sale or otherwise, or the destruction of vehicles which have been unclaimed in a car park for more than a period specified in the by-laws.
(Replaced 38 of 1971 s. 3)
A copy of every by-law clearly printed in English and Chinese in large type shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the company’s business premises and on each of the company’s piers.
A by-law made under section 3 may provide that a contravention or breach thereof shall be an offence and shall be punishable by such a fine, not exceeding level 1, as may be specified therein.
(Replaced 38 of 1971 s. 4. Amended E.R. 6 of 2022)