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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 358. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 7th December, 1911 :-
A BILL
Short title,
Amends sec- tion 8 of
Onlinance
as amended
by section 4 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1908.
ENTITLETH
An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance relating
to Public Health and Buildings.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health and Buildings Amenduent Ordinance, 1911.
2. Section 8 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordin- ance 1903 as amended by section 4 of the Public Health No. 1 of 1908 and Buildings Amendment Ordinance 1903 is hereby further amended by the deletion of the words "such per- sous as are included in the special and common Jury Lists, and also by such persons as are exempt from serving on juries on account of their professional avocations or on account of their being Members of Council or on account of infirmity or of their beng over the age of sixty years and by the substitution therefor of the words "such per- sons as are included in either of the Jurors Lists referred to in section 7 (3) of the Jury. Ordinance 1887 and also by the following persons exempted from serving as jurors, that is to say, unofficial members of Council; barristers and solicitors on the roll of the Supreme Court; duly qualified medical practitioners; dentists in actual practice in the Colony; persons registered under the Pharmacy Ordin- ance 190; clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, ministers of any congregation of Protest- ant dissenters or of Jews functioning in the Colony: the masters of any school in the Colony; the editors, sub- editors and reporters of any daily newspaper published in the Colony; pilens licensed under the Pilots Ordinance 1904; and persons of sound mind who have previously been included in either of the said Jurors Lists but have been subsequently removed therefrom on account of age or infirmity".
A mouds sec- tion 188 of Ordinance
No.1 of 1903
as amended
by Ordinance
No. 14 of
1908.
Amends sec- tion 189 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.
3. Section 188 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903 as amended by section 57 of the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance 1908 is hereby further amended as follows :-
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(9.) in sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) thereof by the deletion of the word "fronts" and by the sub- stitution therefor of the word "abuts ".
(b) in sub-section (4) thereof by the deletion of the word "on" in the last line thereof and by the substitution therefor of the word “ upon and further by the deletion of the word' fronts" and by the substitution therefor of the word **abuts".
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(c.) by renumbering sub-section (5) thereof as
sub-section (6).
(d) by inserting after sub-section (4) thereof the
following new sub-section:—
" (5.). No building which does not fall within the provisions of sub-sections (1), (2), (3) or (4) of this section shall be erected or re- erected or raised to a height exceeding such height as the Building Authority may authorise."
4. Section 189 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903 i hereby repealed and there shall be substituted therefor the following sections :----