THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH OCTOBER, 1899.
13. Every act, failure, neglect, or omission whereby any Offences. requirement or provision of this Ordinance is contravened, and every refusal to comply with any of the requirements or provisions of this Ordinance, shall be deemed an offence against this Ordinance, and any owner of any premises, in connection with which any such act, failure, neglect, omission, or refusal as aforesaid has occurred, shall be deemed to have committed an offence against this Ordi- nance and shall be punishable accordingly.
The secretary or manager for the time being of any Liability of company or corporation may be summoned and shall be secretary or manager of held liable for any offence committed by such company or
company. corporation against this Ordinance.
14. Every person, company, or corporation committing Penalties. un offence against this Ordinance in respect of which no penalty is otherwise provided by this Ordinance shall be liable, upon summary conviction, to pay a fine not exceed- ing fifty dollars and in default of payment thereof to impri- sonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding one month, and in any case where in the opinion of the Magistrate the offence is likely to be con- tinued, the Magistrate may require the offender to comply with this Ordinance within such time as he may direct and may inflict a further penalty not exceeding five dollars for every day after such date, during which the offender shall fail so to comply.
Every fire or penalty imposed under this Ordinance shall be recoverable summarily under the provisions of The Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.
15. The enactments specified in the schedule to this Repeal. Ordinance are hereby repealed.
SCHEDULE.
Table of Enactments Repealed.
Number and Year of Ordinance.
Title or Short Title and Date of Ordinance,
Extent of Repeal.
Ordinance 15 of 1894. The closed houses and insa-Section
nitary dwellings Ordi- nance. 1894.
7, and sub-section (b.) of section 8.
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Objects and Reasons.
The object of this Bill is to improve the sanitation of houses in this Colony by making minimum open spaces of certain dimensions compulsory at the rear of every building in the Colony, no matter at what date such building was érected.
Hitherto the difficulty in the way of the Health Author- ities has been that the beneficial sanitary provisions of recent Health Ordinances have had no retrospective effect, but have only applied to buildings erected since the passing of such Ordinances.
The provisions of this Bill are based to a certain extent upon the Report, dated the 9th March, 1898, of the Insani- tary Properties Commission which was appointed by the late Governor, Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, but whilst in some respects this Bill effects a compromise between the views of the different Commissioners, in other respects it goes beyond their recommendations,
With reference to sub-section (4.) of clause 4 of this Bill, which forbids cubicles or partitions in houses fronting streets of a width of less than 15 feet except on the top floor, it will be noted that two out of the five Commissioners were of opinion that in such houses no cubicles should be allowed on the ground floors, while the remaining three Commis- sioners recommended that in such houses no cubicles should be allowed on any floor.
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