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which any person may be liable, to make an order empowering the Council and any person authorised by it to enter the premises and to remove the water closet or urinal in question; and all expenses incurred by the Council in causing such removal shall forthwith be paid by the person against whom the original order of removal was made, or failing him by the owner of the premises in question, without prejudice to any right of such person or owner to recover the amount of such expenses from any other person liable for the same.
(9) In this section 'urinal' means a water flushed urinal.
Limitation of Accommodation and Prevention of
Overcrowding.
towards
43. A Health Officer or such other officer as the Measure- Council may appoint for this purpose shall, within such limits ment of
buildings as the Council may from time to time define, cause to as first step be measured the floor area and cubic capacity of all domestic prevention buildings or parts thereof, and shall cause to be calculated of over-
crowding. the number of occupants that may lawfully be accommodated in such buildings or any parts thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, and shall cause such number in English and Chinese to be fixed to such buildings or parts thereof in such manner as the Council may from time to time direct.
44. In the calculation of cubic space for human Calculation habitation
(a) no height over ten feet shall be taken into account.
(b) no passage, lobby or other space partitioned off from any room to the height of the ceiling shall be included in the cubic space of such room.
(c) Every person over ten years of age shall be considered as an adult and every two persons of ten years or under shall be counted as one adult.
or
of cubic space.
tion.
45. Every domestic building and any part thereof Limit of found to be inhabited in excess of a proportion of one adult accommoda- for every 35 square feet of habitable floor space superficial area, and 350 cubic feet of clear and unobstructed internal air space, shall be deemed to be in an overcrowded condition:
Provided that :---
(i) Every domestic building within the mid-level district or within the Hill District, and any part thereof (with the exception of quarters occupied by servants), which is occupied by more than one adult for every 1,000 cubic feet of clear and unobstructed internal air space, shall be deemed to be in an overcrowded condition.
(ii) The provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of temporary structures provided for housing workmen during the progress of works.
responsible
46.-(1) It shall not be lawful for any householder or Lessor tenant to let or sub-let, or allow to be used for occupation, for over any domestic building or any part thereof to or by so large crowding. a number of persons as to cause the same to be in an over- crowded condition.
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