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[No. 26-10.8.36.--2.]
A BILL
INTITULED
Short title.
Amendment of Ordinance No. 15 of
1935, s. 3.
Amendment of Ordinance No. 15 of 1935, s. 3.
Amendment
An Ordinance to amend the Public Health (Sanitation)
Ordinance, 1935.
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 Public Health (Sanitation) Amendment Ordinance, 1936.
2. The definition 'Urban District' in section 3 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, is amended by the deletion of the words "the City of Victoria,' and the substitution therefor of the words "the Island of Hong Kong."
3. The definition 'Workshop' in section 3 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, is amended--
(a) by the substitution of a full stop for a comma after the word "article" in the sixth line thereof; and
(b) by the deletion of the words "provided that at least twenty persons are employed in manual labour in the said premises or in the close, curtilage or precincts thereof."
4. Section 3 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, of Ordinance 1935, is amended by the insertion immediately after the
definition 'Pail latrine' of the following definition :--
No. 15 of
1935, s. 3.
Laundry.
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 15 of
1935, s. 4 (1) (xx).
Amendment of Ordinance
No. 15 of 1935, s. 4 (1).
'Laundry' means any place at which articles of clothing or of household use are washed, and includes any place wherein any such articles are dried, aired, ironed or stored after washing or where any such articles are received for the purpose of being forwarded to or returned from any place where they are to be or have been washed.
5. Sub-section (1) (xx) of section 4 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, is amended by the deletion of the words "the regulation of" and by the substitution therefor of the following words "the construction, licensing, regulation and proper sanitary maintenance of".
6. Section 4 (1) of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordin- ance, 1935, is amended by the addition of the following sub- section at the end thereof :-
(xxvi) the fixing of fees to be charged in connection with any of the above matters.
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