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No. S. 230.-The following revised draft of the regulations which it is intended to make when the Waterworks Amendment Ordinance, 1929, is passed, is published for general information. The proposed Regulation 1A is new, and there are two verbal alterations in the proposed Regulation 1 (11).
No.
Draft Regulations.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 23 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 16 of 1903, on the day of July, 1929.
1. Regulation 1 of the regulations made by the Governor in Council under section. 23 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, and appearing on pages 307 to 322 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1914-1925, is rescinded and the following regulation is substituted therefor:
Hong Kong: price of the * quarterly amount".
Hong Kong: price of
excess
consumption.
Hospitals and charita-
able institu- tions.
Naval establish-
ments.
Certain military
establish-
ments.
Aberdeen,
Aplichau and Shaukiwan.
Cufiltered
water Pokfulam,
Repulse Bay. Stanley and
Tai Tam.
Kowloon and
New Kowloon.
Tai Po.
1-(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (3) to (7), both inclu- sive, of this regulation, the price of all filtered water supplied by meter which falls within the quarterly amount referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, shall be seventy-five cents per thousand gallons in the Peak District and fifty cents per thousand gallons in all other parts of the island of Hong Kong.
(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (3) to (7), both inclusive, of this regulation, the price of all excess consumption in the case of filtered water shall be one dollar and seventy-five cents per thousand gallons in the Peak District and one dollar and twenty-five cents per thousand gallons in all other parts of the island of Hong Kong.
(3) In the case of filtered water supplied by meter to hospitals or chari- table institutions no price shall be charged in respect of the quarterly amount referred to in sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Water- works Ordinance, 1903, and the price of all excess consumption shall be seventy-five cents per thousand gallons.
(4) In the case of water supplied by meter to naval establishments the price of all filtered water shall be seventy-five cents per thousand gallons, and of all unfiltered water thirty-five cents per thousand gallons.
(5) Any special price hitherto charged for filtered water supplied by meter to military establishments shall remain in force.
(6) In the case of filtered water supplied by meter at Aberdeen, Aplichau and Shankiwan no price shall be charged in respect of the quarterly amount referred to in sub-paragraph (77) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Water- works Ordinance, 1903, and the price of all excess consumption shall be seventy-five cents per thousand gallons.
(7) The price of all unfiltered water supplied by meter at Pokfulam, Repulse Bay, Stanley, and Tai Tam, and elsewhere except at Tai Po or Fan Ling, shall be fifty cents per thousand gallons.
(8). In the case of filtered water supplied by meter in Kowloon or New Kowloon no price shall be charged in respect of the quarterly amount referred to in sub-paragraph (7) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, and the price of all excess consumption shall be seventy-five cents per thousand gallons.
(9) The price of all unfiltered water supplied by meter at Tai Po shall be thirty-five cents per thousand gallons.