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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bill.
No. 8. 167.-The following Bill is published for general
information :-
[No. 12-23.3.39.-1.]
[C.S.O. 2904/30.]
A BILL
Short title.
Amendment
No. 44 of
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Ordinance, 1935.
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 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment Ordinance, 1939.
2. Sub-section (1) of section 8 of the Prevention of of Ordinance Cruelty to Animals Ordinance, 1935, is amended by the addition after the word "vehicle" at the end thereof of the following words :---
1935,
s. 8 (1).
including the licensing, construction and proper sanitary maintenance of any such place”.
Objects and Reasons.
1. Provision for the construction, licensing and proper sanitary maintenance of places in which animals are kept in private premises is made by section 4 (1) (xxi) of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, No. 15 of 1935; but in that Ordinance by section 3 the word "animals" is given a restricted meaning.
2. Similar provision is made in sections 3 (1) (c), 3 (5) and 3 (6) of the Public Health (Animals and Birds) Ordinance, No. 16 of 1935, where by section 2 "animals" and "birds" are also given a restricted meaning.
3. The object of this Bill is to make similar provision for licensing, construction and proper sanitary maintenance under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance, No. 44 of 1935, by the addition of appropriate words to section 8 thereof.
4. Under section 2 of that Ordinance "animal" is given a very wide interpretation so as to cover any bird, beast, fish, reptile or insect whether wild or tame.
5. It is intended, when this Bill is enacted, to make regulations for the licensing, construction and proper sanitary maintenance of the "pet-shops" where a miscellaneous collection of dogs, cats, monkeys, reptiles and gold-fish are sometimes kept for sale to the public under conditions against which the object of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance is directed.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
March, 1939.