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To provide for the prevention, minimizing and abatement of noise; the appointment of a Noise Control Authority; the powers and duties of the Noise Control Authority relating to the control of noise; the creation of offences; and for connected purposes. (Enacted 1988) [Sections 1 to 3, 8 to 12, 18 to 39 and 41 } 17 February 1989] L.N. 44 of 1989 Sections 6(1), (4), (5) and (6) and 40 in relation to items 5(b)(ii) and (e), 6, 8 and 9 of the Schedule } 17 August 1989 Section 6(3) } 17 November 1989 Section 4, 5, 13(1)(a) and (c) and (2) to (8) and 40 in relation to items 1 to 4, 5(a), (b)(i) and (iii), (c) and (d) and 7 of the Schedule } 1 November 1989 L.N. 355 of 1989 Sections 14(1), (2), (4) and (5) and 15 to 17 } 1 March 1992 L.N. 42 of 1992 The provisions of section 6(2), to the extent of enabling construction work to be prescribed for the purposes of that section, and only to that extent } 1 May 1996 } } } } } L.N. 32 of 1996] The remaining provisions of section 6(2) } 1 November 1996 (Originally 75 of 1988) Cap 400 s 1 Short title and commencement PART I PRELIMINARY (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Noise Control Ordinance. (2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette and notices under this section may appoint different dates for the coming into operation of different provisions of this Ordinance. (Enacted 1988) Cap 400 s 2 Interpretation In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- "annoyance" (烦扰) means annoyance that would not be tolerated by a reasonable person; "Appeal Board" (上诉委员会) means the Appeal Board constituted under section 21; "Authority" (监督) means the Noise Control Authority appointed under section 3(1); "Chairman" (主席) means the person appointed as Chairman of the Appeal Board under section 20(2); "construction noise permit" (建筑噪音许可证) means a construction noise permit issued under section 8(1); "construction site" (建筑地盘) means a place where construction work is carried out; "construction work" (建筑工程) includes- (a) any work in connection with or for the construction, demolition, reconstruction, shoring, alteration, maintenance or repair, of the whole or any part of any building, arch, bridge, chimney, dock, hoarding, shelter, tunnel, wall, pier, wharf or other structure or any road, slope, embankment, street, railway, tramway, airport, channel, drain, service lane, sewer, water conduit, lighting or public utility; (b) any work in connection with or for the extraction from the earth of any matter whatsoever; (c) any work in connection with or for the reclamation of any foreshore and sea-bed; (d) dredging or any work in connection with dredging; (e) piling or any work in connection with piling; (f) any work involved in preparing for any operation of the type referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e); and (g) the use of machinery, plant, tools, gear and materials in connection with or for any operation referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f);"designated area" (指定范围) means an area established under section 8A; (Added 2 of 1994 s. 2) "domestic premises" (住用处所) means- (a) any premises used wholly or mainly for residential purposes and constituting a separate household unit; and (b) any part of a hotel or boarding-house that is let by the keeper of the hotel or boarding-house to a guest;"functions" (职能) includes powers and duties; "intruder" (侵扰者), in relation to an intruder alarm system, means any unauthorized person who interferes with any premises or vehicle in respect of which the intruder alarm system is deployed to protect, whether such interference is intentional or unintentional; (Added 61 of 1996 s. 2) "intruder alarm system" (侵扰者警报系统), in relation to sections 13A and 13B, means an alarm system the purpose of which is to warn of the presence of an intruder by the emission of an audible signal activated by that intruder; (Added 61 of 1996 s. 2) "percussive piling" (撞击式打桩工程) means piling by sinking or driving a pile by direct or indirect hammering or other percussive means, including piling by the use of a drop hammer, diesel hammer, double acting hammer, single acting hammer, internal drop hammer, pneumatic hammer, steam hammer or other percussive device, other than a device that is portable and designed for operation while held by hand without any other form of support; "pile" (桩) means any sheet, column, post, tube or caisson driven or formed in the ground and also means any pile known as a "jacked pile", "screw pile", "cast-in-place pile", "composite pile", "sand pile", "sheet pile", "bored pile", "caisson pile", and any other form of pile; "piling" (打桩工程) means any work in connection with or for the sinking or forming of a pile in the ground by hammering, jacking, screwing, augering, boring, jetting, vibrating, casting or any other means and also means the driving or sinking of any casing or tube into the ground to form a well or caisson for foundation purposes, whether or not the casing or tube is later extracted; |