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or glazed partitions communicating with any such staircase shall be adequately pro- tected by fire resisting doors of solid teak not less than two inches thick or by wired glazing or by some other method equally satisfactory to the Building Authority.
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this Ordinance is to substitute for section 121 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903,-a section which dealt with rules relating to soffits and the tread and rise of staircases-a new section in which further rules, making for safety in cases of fire, are laid down for the construction of future stairways; and also to restore the Medical Officer of Health to his former position as a member of the Sanitary Board in place of the Director of Medical and Sani- tary Services who was appointed ex-officio to the Board last year the better to enable him to make a study of its workings.
September, 1930.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
[No. 21:-25.9.30 −1.]
A BILL
INTITULED
Short title.
An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Twenty-three million three hundred and sixty-five thousand three hundred and thirty- five Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1931.
WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1931 has, apart from the contribution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure and Charges on account of Public Debt, been estimated at the sum of Twenty-three million three hundred and sixty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-five Dollars :
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 Appropriation Ordinance for 1931.