160
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 7, 1940.
EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.
No. 146.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1922.
(EMERGENCY
REGULATIONS).
WHEREAS by section 2 of Ordinance No. 5 of 1922, intituled the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, it is provided among other things that, on any occasion which the Governor in Council may consider to be an occasion of emergency or public danger, he may make any regulations whatsoever which he may consider desirable in the public interest:
AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council considers that such an occasion of emergency or public danger continues to exist:
NOW THEREFORE, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor in Council amends Emergency Regula- tion No. 37 published as Government Notification No. 902 in the Government Gazette of the 25th November, 1938, as follows:-
(2)
Amendments.
1. The following regulation is added as regulation 37
(2) It shall be lawful for any public officer authorized in that behalf by the Director of Public Works, using such force and with such assistance as may be necessary, to take possession of, demolish and remove any structure used for human habitation erected on land leased from Government or occupied under a licence or permit from Government whether directly or indirectly, which has not been approved by the Building Authority and which in the opinion of the Director of Public Works is insanitary, unsafe or dangerous to the lives or health of the occupants thereof or which, owing to the nature of its structure or its proximity to other similar structures, may be a danger to the lives or health of other persons in the neighbourhood, or which, through lack of adequate sanitary arrangements in its neighbourhood, is calculated to be a danger to the health of its occupants or that of others.
2. Regulation 37 (2) is renumbered as regulation 37 (3).
5th January, 1940.
T. MEGARRY,
Clerk of Councils.