LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 377.—The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 6th October, 1932:-
[No. 39-6.9.32.-4.]
(C.S.O. 3245/20).
A BILL
Short title.
Amendment
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Waterworks Amendment Ordinance, 1932.
2. Section 2 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is of Ordinance amended by the repeal of paragraphs (f) (h) and (i).
No. 16 of
1903, s. 2.
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 16 of 1903, s. 5.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 16 of 1903, s. 6.
Amendment
3. Section 5 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is amended by the deletion of the words "which is not connected with a rider main'.
4. Section 6 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is repealed.
5. The proviso at the end of section 8 of the Water- of Ordinance works Ordinance, 1903, is repealed.
No. 16 of
1903, s. 8.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 16 of 1903, s. 9.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 16 of 1903, s. 11 and heading.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 16 of 1903, s. 12.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 16 of
1903, s. 16.
6. Section 9 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is repealed.
7. Section 11 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, and the heading thereto are repealed.
8. Section 12 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is amended by the deletion of all the words following the word "regulations in the ninth line and by the substitution therefor of the words :-
"Provided that, except when so directed by the Governor in Council, the Water Authority shall be under no obligation to connect the service with the waterworks in any district outside the areas to which the waterworks for the time being extend. Provided also that nothing in this section shall be deemed to restrict the drawing of water by any such person from street fountains in districts where street fountains are provided.
9. Section 16 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is amended by the deletion of the words "which is not connected with a rider main".
Objects and Reasons.
1. The object of this Ordinance is to delete from the principal Ordinance all the provisions relating to the system. of supplying, in certain privileged districts, unmetered water to tenement houses by means of what were known as "rider mains", thus implementing the Resolution which was passed by the Legislative Council on the 18th August, 1932.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
August. 1932.
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