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Appendix 3

Statistics of Enforcement and Prosecution Actions
Undertaken in 2018

In 2018, the Central Enforcement and Prosecution Section of the Department investigated
a total of 1 953 suspected unauthorised developments (UDs) in the rural New Territories.

Among these, 631 were confirmed to be UDs. After taking enforcement and prosecution
actions, 396 UDs (covering about 93 hectares of land) were discontinued. Moreover, a total
of 40 UD cases (covering about 7 hectares of land) were regularised through the planning
application system (Table 1).

Table 1 Number of Unauthorised Developments Discontinued or Regularised in
2018 after Enforcement Actions by Geographical District

No. of Discontinued Cases No. of Regularised Cases
Geographical District
(ha) (ha)

North West New 252 32
Territories (66.24) (5.08)

North East New 116 8
Territories (22.65) (2.08)

8
Sai Kung ---
(0.82)

19
Islands ---
(2.95)

1
Tsuen Wan ---
(0.10)

396 40
Total
(92.76) (7.16)

In 2018, enforcement actions were being taken against 628 UDs. The geographical distribution
of these UDs (with land area involved) by type is shown in Table 2 while Chart 1 indicates the
percentage of UDs by type.

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