Chapter:	95F	Title:	FIRE SERVICES (FIRE HAZARD ABATEMENT) REGULATION	Gazette Number:	L.N. 113 of 2003; L.N. 194 of 2003
Section:	5	Heading:	Director may abate fire hazard without serving fire hazard abatement notice	Version Date:	01/01/2004

Notwithstanding section 3, the Director may, if satisfied of the existence in or on any premises of a fire hazard, cause to be carried out in or on the premises such works, and cause to be removed and taken possession of such article or thing, that is considered necessary by the Director to abate the fire hazard and to prevent its recurrence in or on the premises without the service of a fire hazard abatement notice if-

(a) the person by reason of whose act, default or sufferance the fire hazard arose or continues in or on the relevant premises cannot readily be found or is absent from Hong Kong; and
(b) the Director is satisfied that the fire hazard neither arose nor continues by reason of any act, default or sufferance on the part of the owner, tenant, occupier or person in charge of the premises.