1166 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1898.
Power to order re-
moval of illegal
structures.
Offences.
Penalties.
Repeal.
of the provisions of this Ordinance with regard to any alte- ration to or removal of any cubicles or partitions shall remain uncomplied with either wholly or in part.
(e.) If upon the expiration of the respective periods of twelve or three months allowed under sub-sections (~.) and (b.) of this section, the alterations or removal referred to i such sub-sections have or has not been carried out as directed in such sub-sections, then, in addition to the penalties that may be incurred by the owners under such sub-sections, it shall be lawful for a Police Magistrate in his absolute discretion to order the whole or any portion of any building or of any room containing a cubicle or partition to be forthwith closed by or under the direction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and to remain closed until the alterations or removal required by this Ordinance have or has been certified in writing by the Sanitary Board to have been made and completed to the satisfaction of the said Board. Any person found living in any building or room or portion thereof so closed as aforesaid, shall be deemed to have committed an offence against this Ordinance and shall be punishable accordingly.
9. It shall be lawful for a Police Magistrate in any case in which it is proved to his satisfaction that any mezzanine floor, cockloft, cubicle or partition is not in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance to order either in addition to or in substitution for any penalty specified in this Ordinance the immediate removal by any officer of the Sanitary Board of any such mezzanine floor, cockloft, cubicle or partition or any portion thereof, and no com- pensation whatever shall be payable to any person in respect of any damage done to such mezzanine floor, cockloft, cubicle or partition by such removal,
10. Every act, failure, neglect, or omission whereby any provision of this Ordinance or any regulation made under this Ordinance is contravened, and every refusal to comply with any of the requirements or provisions of this Ordi- nance or of any such regulation on the part of any person whose duty it is to comply therewith, shall be deemed an offence against this Ordinance.
11. Every person committing an offence against this Ordinance in respect of which no penalty is otherwise pro- vided by this Ordinance shall be liable, upon summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and in default of payment to imprisonment 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 continued, 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.
12. The Ordinance specified in the schedule hereto is hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule.
No. of Ordinance.
15 of 1894.
SCHEDULE.
ENACTMENT REPEALED.
Title or Short Title.
Extent of repeal.
The closed houses and insanitary Sections 7 and 8
dwellings Ordinance, 1894.
(b).
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 530.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the QUEEN, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council :--
Ordinance No. 28 of 1898 -An Ordinance to authorize the imposition of fees for the issue
by the Government of Hongkong of certain certificates to certain classes of Chinese who are desirous of going to the port of Manila in the Philippine Islands.
Ordinance No. 29 of 1898.--An Ordinance for the Naturalization of one ÜN CHUNG Wo alias
ÜN OÜ alias ÜN HI alias ÜN KWOK HI.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th November, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.