THE HONGKONG GOVE MAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 18TH APRIL, 1899. 615
SCHEDULE,—Continued.
Number of Ordinance and
year.
Title or Short Title.
Extent of non-
application.
No. 15 of 1894.
No. 7 of 1895.
No. 17 of 1895.
No. 25 of 1895.
No. 5 of 1896.
No. 16 of 1896.
The closed houses and insanitary | The whole. dwellings Ordinance, 1894.
The Building (Amendment) Or- The whole. dinance, 1895.
An Ordinance to amend Ordi. | The whole. nance No. 17 of 1887.
An Ordinance to further amend | The whole. The Cattle Disenses, Slaughter- houses, and Markets Ordinance, 1887.
An Ordinance to amend The The whole. Buildings Ordinance, 1889.
The Births and Deaths Registra-The whole.
tion Ordinance. 1896.
No. 15 of 1897. The Prepared Opium (Divans) | The whole.
No. 1 of 1898.
No. 24 of 1898.
Ordinance, 1897.
An Ordinance to amend The The whole. Prepared Opium (Divans) Ordi-
nance, 1897.
The Liquor Licenses Ordinance, The whole. 1898.
No. 11 OF 1899.
An Ordinance relating to Local Communities
and Tribunals.
LS
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor,
[18th April, 1899.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1.-Preliminary.
"The Short title.
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as 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.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise Interprèta- 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-
nance:
"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.
II.-Districts and Sub-districts.
tion clause.
Districts and
3.—(1.) It shall be lawful for the Goveruor, 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 notification the said Districts and Sub-districts shall come and may 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.
mance, or exempt them
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