Property owner fined over $250,000 for persistently not complying with removal order
An owner was convicted and fined $255,800 in total, of which $155,880 was the fine for the number of days that the offence continued, at the Tuen Mun Magistrates' Courts last Friday (October 16) for persistently failing to comply with a removal order issued under the Buildings Ordinance (BO) (Cap. 123). The case involved unauthorised building works (UBWs) at a detached house on Yu Chui Street, Tai Lam, comprising illegal site formation works for constructing an unauthorised platform of about 122 square metres on a slope adjoining an approved garden, the erection of a floor slab over a void adjacent to an approved dining room, the removal of parts of external walls and the construction of unauthorised structures to extend the floors at different levels of the building with a total floor area of about 57 sq m. As the UBWs were carried out without prior approval and consent from the Buildings Department (BD), a removal order was served on the owner under section 24(1) of the BO. Failing to comply with the removal order, the owner had been prosecuted by the BD seven times and was fined and had sentenced to four months' imprisonment suspended for two years upon convictions by the court
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