THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 28,
HONGKONG.
No. 11 of 1909.
An Ordinance to amend the Public Health and
Buildings Ordinances 1903-1908.
LS
F. D. LUGARD,
Governor.
[28th May, 1909.]
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BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
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1. This Grdinance may be cited as
• The Public Health Short title and Buildings Amendment Ordinance 1909" and shall he and read and construed as one with The Public Health and construction. Buildings Ordinance 1903 (which Ordinance as amended by any subsequent Ordinance is hereinafter called The Principal Ordinance and this Ordinance and The Pablie Health and Buildings Ordinances 1902-1908 may be cited together as The Public Health and Buildings Ordinances 1903-1909 **.
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2. Sections 73 and 74 of the Principal Ordinance are amends hereby amended by the deletion of the words Registrar sectious 73 General" wherever they occur in the said serious and by and 74 of the the substitution therefor of the words "Head of the Principal Sanitary Department ".
3. Section 78 of The Public Health and Buildings Amend- ment Ordinance 1908 is hereby repealed.
Ordinance.
Repeals section 78 of Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance 1908.
4. Section 81 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amends sec. amended by the deletion of the words "The Registrar tion 81 of General".
the Principal Ordinance.
5. Section 82 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition after the word "market" in the second line thereof of the words "or have in his possession without reasonable excuse, the onus of proving which shall lie on him, ".
6. The following sections are hereby added to the Licence to Principal Ordinance and shall be inserted after section 91 exhume. thereof :-
91A.--(1.) Subject to the provisions of section 91B it shall not be lawful to exhume any body or the remains of any body which may have been interred in any authorised cemetery or in any other cemetery, burial ground, or other place without a licence granted in the man- . her hereinafter provided.
(2.) Such licence shall be granted only to the legal personal representative or next of kin of the person buried or to his or their duly author- ised agent.
(8.) Such licence may be granted
(a.) by the Board under the hand of the Secretary in respect of any body interred in any authorised cemetery and
(b) by the Governor under the band of the Colonial Secretary in respect of any body interred in any other cemetery or burial ground or any other place.
The licensing authority may prescribe such Conditions of precautions as he or they may deem fit as the licence.
condition of the grant of such licence, and any
person who shall exhume any body or remains
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