THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 12, 1917.
HONGKONG.
No. 23 of 1917.
I assent to this Ordinance.
F. H. MAY,
LS
Governor,
12th October, 1917.
An Ordinance to provide for the licensing and control of places where persons are lodged for hire.
[12th October, 1917.]
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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 citel as the Boarding Short title. House Ordinance, 1917.
Interpreta-
2.--(1.) In this Ordinance the term “boarding house shall include every place where any person is harboured tion. or lodged for any kind whatsoever of hire or reward and where any domestic service whatsoever is rendered by the owner, lessee, principal tenant, occupier, or master, to the person so harboured or lodged: provided that the term shall not include any boarding house for non- Chinese seamen within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.
(2.) In particular, and without prejudice to sub-section (1) of this section, and notwithstanding anything therein contained, the term boarding house in this Ordinance shall include the following:-
(a) hotels;
(b) boarding houses;
(c) common lodging houses as defined in the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903;
(d) places where employers lodge their employees, of either sex and of whatever occupation; and
(e) the premises of societies within the meaning of the Societies Ordinance, 1911, where per- sons pass the night.
3.-1.) The Governor in Council shall have power Rules. to make vales for the following purposes:
(a) the classification and definition of different
kinds of boarding houses;
(b) the registration and licensing of boarding
houses;
(c) the suspension and cancellation of such
licences;
(d) the fixing of fees to be paid in respect of
such licences;
(e) the management and control of boarding
houses;
(f) the authorisation of persons to make searches
for the purposes of this Ordinance;
(g) the carrying out of this Ordinance generally.
(2.) Any such rules may refer only to some particular class of boarding house.
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