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Chapter:

228 PDFTitle:SUMMARY OFFENCES ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:32Heading:Removal of filth, etc., and recovery of expensesVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Police to require any person whose duty it may be to remove any filth or obstruction, or to do any other matter or thing required to be done by this Ordinance, to do so within a certain time to be then fixed by the said officer, and, in default of such requisition being complied with, the officer shall cause to be removed such filth or obstruction or do or cause to be done such other matter or thing as aforesaid.
(2) It shall be lawful for the magistrate by whom any person has been convicted of an offence in respect of any such filth or obstruction to order such offender, in addition to the penalties hereinbefore imposed, to pay such sum of money for defraying the expenses of such removal, or of doing such other matter or thing, as to the magistrate may seem just and reasonable; and the sum so ordered shall be recoverable in the manner hereinafter provided for the recovery of penalties imposed by this Ordinance.