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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 659.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1936.
(QUARANTINE AND
PREVENTION OF DISEASE).
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In exercise of the powers conferred by section 8 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, 1936, and of all other powers enabling in that behalf, the Governor in Council makes the following regulations:-
REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPLY OF WATER TO AND
FROM WATER BOATS AND FROM WHARVES.
1. In these regulations
(1) "water boat" has the same meaning as in the regula- tions made under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, and contained in the Schedule to that Ordinance; and
(2) "drinking water" means water used or supplied for human consumption, but does not include water supplied solely for other purposes.
2. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any regulations made under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, or any licence granted in pursuance of such regulations, no vessel shall ply as a water boat unless the vessel and all the tanks, pipes, hoses, pumps and other fittings, appliances and utensils for the storage of water therein, for the supply of water therefrom or used in connection therewith have been approved by the Director of Medical Services and are main- tained in good repair and in a sanitary condition to his satisfaction.
(2) No person shall supply any water to any water boat or any drinking water from any wharf unless all the tanks, pipes, hoses, pumps and other fittings, appliances and utensils used for or in connection with the supply of such water have been approved by the Director of Medical Services and are maintained in good repair and in a sanitary condition to his satisfaction.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation "in a sanitary condition" shall be deemed to include such limewashing, cement washing, disinfection and cleansing as the Director of Medical Services may from time to time direct.
3. No animal or bird shall be suffered to be in or upon any water boat, or in any place where it may pollute any water with which water boats are supplied.
4. Every person supplying water to any water boat, every person in charge of any water boat and every person supplying drinking water from any wharf shall permit the Director of Medical Services, any officer deputed by him and any Health Officer to inspect the supply or the water boat and to take samples of water therefrom.