THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 6, 1931. 61
HONG KONG.
No. 3 of 1931.
I assent.
W. PEEL,
L.S.
Governor.
6th February, 1931.
An Ordinance to amend further the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, and an Enactment referring thereto,
[6th February, 1931.]
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, 1931.
2. Section 70 of the Public Health and Buildings Repeal of Ordinance, 1903, is repealed.
Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, s. 70.
3. Section 82 of the Public Health and Buildings Repeal of Ordinance, 1903, as enacted by section 8 of the Public section 82 Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1928, is repealed and the following sections are substituted there- for :-
Sale and
of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, as enacted by Ordinance No. 19 of
82.-(1) No person shall sell or expose for 1928, possession of sale, or bring into the Colony or into any s. 8, and unwholesome food.
market, or have in his possession without substitution reasonable excuse, any food for man in a sections. tainted diseased or unwholesome state, or which is unfit for food for man.
Penalty.
food.
(2) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceed- ing five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months.
Inspection of 83.-(1) Any member of the Board, or any unwholesome officer of the Department duly authorised by the Board in writing, may at all reasonable times enter into and inspect any place where he has reason to believe there is any food for man intended for sale, or where he has reason to believe there is any food for man in a tainted, diseased or unwholesome state, or which is unfit for food for man.
(2) Any member of the Board or any officer of the Department or of the police may inspect any food for man which he may find in any highway, street, road, pier, wharf, railway or vessel which he has reason to believe to be in a tainted diseased or unwholesome state, or unfit for food of man.
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