THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1888.
29. The manufacture and sale of poisons and the sale
of unsound and adulterated drugs.
23. The regulation of public baths, laundries, and wash
houses.
24. The compulsory reporting of infectious, contagious,
or communicable diseases.
14. The President or Vice-President shall give direc- tions for carrying out and giving effect to the decisions of the Board.
15. All Bye-Laws made by the Board under the pro- visions of this Ordinance shall be submitted to the Governor, and shall not take effect until approved by the Legislative Council. And all such Bye-Laws, when so approved, shall be published in the Government Gazette in English and Chinese and shall have the same force of law and be equally binding and valid, as if they had been contained in this Ordinance.
16. The word Nuisance as used in this Ordinance shall include:-
1. Any failure to supply, or any inadequate or defec- tive provision of drain, drain-trap, ventilating- pipe, subsoil-drainage, or cess-pool accommoda- tion, or any building or part of a building so dark, or so ill-ventilated as to be dangerous, or prejudicial to the health of the inmates."
2. Any street or road, or any part thereof, or any water-course, nullah, ditch, gutter, side-channel, drain, ashpit, sewer, privy, urinal, or cess-pool so foul as to be noxious, or noisome, or unhealthy. 3. Any water-course, well, tank, pool, pond, canal, conduit, or cistern, the water of which, from any cause, is so tainted with impurities, or so un- wholesome as to be injurious to the health of persons living near, or using such water, or which is likely to promote or aggravate epidemic disease.
4. Any stable, cow-house, pig-sty or other premises for the use of animals, which is in such a condition as to be injurious to health.
5. Any accumulation, or deposit of stagnant water, sullage-water, manure, dirt, house-refuse, or other inatter, wherever situated, which is unhealthy. 6. Any noxious matter, or waste waters, flowing or discharged from any premises, wherever situated, into any public street, road, or into the gutter or side-channel of any street, or road, or into any nullah, or water-course, or the bed thereof.
7. Any manufactory, trade, or business of a noxious,
noisome, or unhealthy nature.
8. Any cemetery, or place of burial, so situated, or so
conducted, as to be unhealthy.
9. Any act, omission, or thing which is, or may be dangerous to life, or injurious to health or pro- perty.
17. It shall be lawful for the Board, on reasonable pre- sumption of the existence of a nuisance, on any premises, by an order in writing, to authorize any Sanitary Officer, with an Assistant, or Assistants, to enter such premises, at any time between six in the morning and six in the evening, and to inspect the same.
The Inspecting Officer shall produce and show the order to any person being, or claiming to be, the occupier of such premises. Provided that the Inspecting Officer shall not enter any house, or upon any land which may be occupied at the time, unless with the consent of the occupier thereof. without previously giving the said occupier six hours" notice in writing of his intention to do so.
Any person refusing admittance to the said Inspecting Officer, after such notice has been given, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
13. On the receipt of any information respecting the existence of a nuisance, the Board shall, if satisfied of the existence of a misance, serve a notice on the person by whose act, default, or sufferance, the nuisance arises, or continues, or, if such person cannot be found, on the owner, or occupier, of the premises on which the nuisance arises, requiring him to abate the same, within a time to be specified in the notice, and to execute such works, and do such things, as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided,
Powers of President and Vice-Presi- deut.
Legislative Council to approve Bye-Laws.
Definition of Nuisance
Right of entry.
Notice of entry to be given.
Penalty.
Sanitary Board
to serve
notice
requiring abatement of muisance.
38 & 39 Vict. c. 35 mɛ. 94.
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