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Draft Bills.
No. S. 483.--The following bill, which was published in the Gazette of the 22nd November, is republished with the addition of a new clause 2. The other clauses of the bill have not been altered, except that they are now numbered 3, 4 and 5 instead of 2, 3 and 4. The new clause 2 is explained in the new paragraph 1 of the Objects and Reasons.
C.S.O. 6355/11.
A BILL
[No. 17-23,11.29.--3.]
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend further the Public
Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.
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 Short title. and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1929.
2. Sub-section (1) of section 8 of the Public Health Amendment and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, is amended by the of Ordinance substitution of the words "Director of Medical and No. 1 of
1903, s. 8 (1). Sanitary Services for the words Medical Officer of Health" in the fourth line thereof.
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No. 1 of
s. 16 (17).
3. Paragraph (17) of section 16 of the Public Health Amendment and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, as amended by section of Ordinance 4 of the Public Health and Buildings Amendment 1903, Ordinance, 1928, is further amended by the insertion of the words "and the prescribing of the fees to be paid in respect of eating-house licences," immediately after the words "and eating-houses".
4. Section 188 of the Public Health and Buildings Amendment: Ordinance, 1903, is amended as follows:-
of Ordinance No. 1 of
s. 188.
(a) in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) by the dele- 1903, tion of the word frouts " wherever it occurs and by the substitution therefor of the word
abuts";
(b) in paragraph (3) by the deletion of the third paragraph of the proviso, beginning “The amount of compensation and ending "for human habitation ;
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(c) in paragraph (4) by the deletion of the words on which it fronts" in the last line and by the substitution therefor of the word "upon which it abuts";
(d) by inserting immediately after paragraph (4)
the following new paragraph :----
“(5) No building which does not fall within the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) or (4) of this section shall be erected or re-crected or raised to a height exceeding such height as the Building Authority may authorise, but in the case of a building on land abutting upon a street the Building Authority shall have no power to require such building to be of a less height than that specified in such of the foregoing paragraphs as would apply if such building had been so arranged as to abut upon such street ;
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