THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH APRIL, 1899.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance relating to Local Communities
and Tribunals.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I.—Preliminary.
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Short title. Local Communities Ordinance, 1899"; and it shall only Application, apply to the new territories which have been added to the Colony of Hongkong by the Convention, dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between Her Majesty Queen VICTORIA and
His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China.
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tion clause.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise Interpreta- requires-
"Colonial Secretary shall include any officer ap- pointed by the Governor to discharge any of the duties of the Colonial Secretary under this Ordi-
nauce:
"Natives
"
shall mean those persons resident in the country whose fathers are of the Chinese race, whether such persons or their fathers are Chinese subjects or not, and shall not include those who have fathers who are not of the Chinese race.
11.-Districts and Sub-districts.
Districts and
3.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor, by notifica- Governor tion to be published in the Gazette, to divide the territory may con- to which this Ordinance applies, or any parts thereof, into stitute suitable Districts and Sub-districts, and to declare by like Sub-districts notification from time to time, as he may think desirable, and bring that any such Districts and Sub-districts shall be brought, them within from a time to be named in such notification, within the this Ordi- operation of this Ordinance. Upon the publication of such nance, or notification the said Districts and Sub-districts shall come and may
exerupt them within such operation accordingly, and the Committees alter their thereof respectively shall be entitled to exercise the limits. powers and privileges conferred upon them by this Ordi-
nance.
(2.) The Governor may, however, from time to time by notification to be published in the Gazette for that purpose, exempt from the operation of this Ordinance any District or Sub-district which shall have been brought within such operation, and thereupon the said District or Sub-district shall cease to be liable to the provisions of this Ordinance.
(3.) The Governor may also by like notification from time to time, if he deems it expedient, alter the boundaries or constituent parts of any Districts or Sub-districts.
III.-Committees of Districts and Sub-districts.
4. It shall be lawful for the the Governor to appoint Committees from time to time for each Sub-district such persons as he for Districts may think fit to form a Committee for such Sub-district, and Sub- and also to appoint for each District such members of the districts. Sub-district Committees or such other persons as he may think fit, to form a Committee for such District.
5. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint from Chairmen of time to time as Chairman of each District Committee and Committees. as Chairman of each Sub-district Committee, such member of such Committees respectively as, having regard to any recommendations of the majority of the members of such respective Committees, he may deem fit.
6. Notification of the various Districts and Sub-districts Publication and of the respective Committees thereof and of the Chair- in the men of such Committees shall from time to time be published Gazette and in the Gazette, and the production of a copy of the Gazette evidence. containing any such notification or of any copy of such noti- fication purporting to be printed by the Government printer shall be taken as primâ facie evidence of the matters so notified.
IV.-Rules.
7. The Governor-in-Council may, from time to time, Rules for make such Rules as he may deem expedient for the main- new tenance of the peace, good order, health and cleanliness of, and territory. for the furtherance of the good government and well-being
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