THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH JANUARY, 1895.
(vi) For prescribing the conditions under which alone
it shall be lawful to live in, occupy or use, or to let or sublet, or to suffer or permit to be used for habitation or for occupation as a shop, any cellar, vault, underground room, basement or room any site of which abuts on or against the earth or soil.
(vii) For the prevention as far as possible or mitigation of any epidemic, endemic or contagious disease including inter alia provisions—
(a) For the removal of persons suffering from
any such discase.
(b) For the speedy and safe disposal of the
dead.
(c) For house to house visitation.
(d) For the destruction of infected bedding,
clothing or other articles.
(c) For the compulsory vacating of houses. (ƒ) For such other matters or things as may to the Board appear advisable for preventing or mitigating such disease. (2) The Sanitary Board may in any such bye-laws impose penalties for any breach thereof not exceeding $25 in each case.
(3) All such bye-laws shall be subject to the provisions of section 15 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, as if they had been made under such Ordinance.
(4) All penalties for any breach of such bye-laws shall be enforced in the same manner as penalties under this Ordi- nance may be enforced.
14. The provisions of section 4 of this Ordinance (besides applying to the domestic buildings in the 2nd schedule hereto), and the provisions of section 5 shall apply to all domestic buildings hereafter erected and to all such exist- ing domestic buildings as are situated within the boundaries of the City of Victoria as defined in Ordinance 15 of 1888, and within such other districts or places in this Colony as may from time to time be defined by the Governor in Council and notified in the Gazette.
15. The Sanitary Board may grant certificates (that ground has been covered to its satisfaction, and any other certificates of matters required by this Ordinance) and written permissions under the hand of the Secretary or such other officer as it may appoint in that behalf. Such certificates and permits shall for all purposes be primâ facie evidence of the matters therein stated.
16. No suit or action shall be commenced or lie, or, if commenced, be continued against the Sanitary Board or its officers or the Permanent Committee thereof or any person acting under the authority of the Sanitary Board or the Permanent, Committee for any loss or damage incurred by or resulting to any person by reason--
(a) Of the removal of the occupants of any house
mentioned in the 1st and 2nd schedules hereto.
(b) of the shutting up or closing of any such house
or any part thereof.
(c) of the destruction or removal of, or of the damage to any buildings, wells, furniture, fittings, mez- zanine floors, cocklofts, partitions or articles in any such house or curtilage closed or disin- fected by orders of the Sanitary Board, provided such destruction, removal or damage occurred during the prevalence of the Bubonic Plague or during any operations which were necessary or deemed necessary by the Board for the cleansing and disinfecting of any such houses, or,
(d) of any loss of rent whatever in respect of any
such house, or
(e) Of the continued possession of any such house and curtilage or any part thereof by the Sani- tary Board or the Permanent Committee thereof pending the carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance in respect thereof.
Application of Ordinance.
Certificatas,
etc.
Suits not to be against Sanitary Board.
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