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"The Director, if satisfied of the existence inor on any premises of any fire hazard, mayserve -(i) upon the person by reason of whose act,default or sufferance the fire hazard arose orcontinues, or(ii) if such person is the servant or agent ofsome other person, upon such other person; or(iii)if such person or such other person, asthe case may be, cannot readily be found or isabsent from the Territory, upon the owner,tenant, occupier or person in charge of thepremises in or on which such fire hazardexists,a notice in the form of Form 2 in the FifthSchedule."The Form 2 mentioned above refers to a FHAN. Theprocedural instructions regarding the enforcement ofFHAN actions are given in FSD'sX FPB ProceduralInstruction No. 30' (Annex XXX).4.21 Notwithstanding the legal advice mentioned inpara. 4.17 above, the FSD had in fact not served anyFHANs in respect of structures where there wereinadequate EVAs nor had the Department taken any similarenforcement actions in respect of obstructions (e.g.movable objects like vehicles) to EVAs for at least thepast five years. This Office understands that this mighthave been due to the practicable enforcement difficultiesthe FSD had foreseen in taking such actions, e.g.locating the owners/drivers of the vehicles causingobstructions, these persons being unaware that they hadparked their vehicles on an EVA.Redevelopments in Stepped Street Areas4.22 Along the hillside of Hong Kong Island, thereare a number of sites abutting streets that are steppedand at split levels and are thus not accessible tovehicles. Previously, because of the FSD's requirementthat all new domestic developments should have emergencyaccess to reach at least one major face of the proposedbuilding for fire appliances and rescue equipment to• beeffectively brought into use for the purpose of fire- 37 - .