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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 28, 1932.
No. 673.
Hong Kong
ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1922. (EMERGENCY REGULATIONS).
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, the Governor in Council hereby orders that the regulations made under the said Ordinance and published as Notification No. 449 in the Gazette of the 8th July, 1932, he repealed and the same are hereby repealed.
D. W. TRATMAN,
Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
24th October, 1932.
Notice.
The above mentioned order repeals the regulations for the prevention and mitigation of cholera which affected the sale by hawkers of cut fruit, ice cream, non-aerated drinks prepared from fruit juice and herbs and the jellies known as Leung Fan and Man Tau Lo.
No. 674.
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Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 16 of 1903. (WATERWORKS).
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 23 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, as amended by the Water- works Amendment Ordinance, 1929, Ordinance No. 12 of 1929, the Governor in Council rescinds regulation 7 of the regulations made under the aforesaid Ordinance set forth on pages 306 to 322 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-1925, and substitutes the following regulation therefor :-
7.—(1) In these regulations references to a quarter in connexion with water supplied by meter shall be construed as references to the period between two consecutive readings of the meter in question taken for the purpose of calculating the consumption in order to determine the amount (if any) payable for excess consumption whether or not such period shall be determined by relation to any of the usual quarter-days.
(2) In the case of a meter fixed during a quarter the first reading for the purpose of calculating consumption shall be the first reading of the meter and in the case of a meter removed during a quarter or the stopping of a supply during and until the end of a quarter the last reading for the purpose of calculating consumption shall be the last reading of the meter taken before such removal or stopping of supply.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Water Authority, if he shall so think fit, to determine the quarterly consumption of water supplied by any meter or by all the meters in any district or districts by relation to the first days of any months other than the usual quarter-days.
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