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s.10R
Reinstatement of unleased land after excavation made under a lease, licence, etc.
(1) Any person who makes or maintains an excavation under and in accordance with a lease, licence, deed of appropriation, memorandum of appropriation or an engineering conditions for land allocation issued by the Director of Lands shall reinstate and make good the land as required by any condition of the lease, licence, deed of appropriation, memorandum of appropriation or engineering conditions for land allocation, as the case may be. (2) If any unleased land is not reinstated and made good in accordance with subsection (1), the Director of Lands may carry out such work as he considers necessary to reinstate and make good the land, and any other land the reinstatement and making good of which is, in his opinion, necessary in consequence of the excavation, notwithstanding that the works for the carrying out of which the excavation was made have not been completed. (3) The Director of Lands may recover from the person mentioned in subsection (1) the cost of any work carried out by the Director under subsection (2). (4) For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that any work carried out under subsection (2) shall not be regarded as excavation for the purpose of this Ordinance.