Land (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance

(1)
The Authority may, on payment of the appropriate prescribed fee and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, issue an excavation permit, authorizing the making and maintaining of excavations in unleased land.
(2)
An excavation permit shall be valid for the period specified therein as that for which it is valid unless it is terminated under
section 10K
.
(3)
The Authority may, on payment of the appropriate prescribed fee, extend the period for which an excavation permit is valid.
(4)
Where—
(a)
the Authority issued an excavation permit for an excavation; and
(b)
the permittee of the permit is unable to have access
to—
(i)
a reasonably substantial portion of the street concerned for the purpose of making or maintaining the excavation, after the commencement of the period for which the permit is valid but before the commencement of the excavation, for reason other than the fault of the permittee, the contractor for the excavation or their employees; or
(ii)
a reasonably substantial portion of the land concerned, other than a street, for the purpose of making or maintaining the excavation, after the commencement of the period for which the permit is valid, for reason other than the fault of the permittee, the contractor for the excavation or their employees,
the Authority may, without payment of any prescribed fee or any part thereof (other than that paid under subsections (1) and (3)), extend that period by the number of days for which the permittee is so unable to have access to the land.
(5)
Subject to
section 10L
, any prescribed fee paid under subsection (1) is not refundable.