870 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 23RD JULY, 1887.
Right of persons to petition Board.
Seisure of unwholesome
food.
Chinese Cemeteries.
Closing of Chinese Cemeteries.
Burial @laowhere.
Penalties in certain cases cumulative.
Removal of infected persous.
25. Where by any Notice under this Ordinance the author of any Nuisance shall be required to construct, re-construct, alter, amend, or repair any drain; to provide adequate privy accommodation; to pave any premises; to abstain from any act which may pollute any stream, canal, pond, or other water; to discontinue any work, trade, manufactory or business; to abate overcrowding or to limit the number of separate dwellings or apartments into which premises may be divided or let or used by different persons or families; to provide proper light, subsoil-drainage, or ventilation for such premises; to discontinue the use of any cemetery or place of burial; or to abate, remedy, remove, or prevent the recurrence of any Nuisance whatsoever; and the author aforesaid shall be dissatisfied with such Notice, it shall be lawful for the author aforesaid within the time specified in such Notice for complying therewith; to petition the Board to review such Notice, and the petition shall set forth the reasons why such Notice should be dis- charged, modified or suspended as the case may be, and thereupon the Board shall enquire into the matters alleged in such petition, [and for such purpose the Board shall have power to take evidence upon oath, or solemn affirmation,] and shall thereupon confirm, modify, suspend, or discharge the Notice, or extend the time allowed for compliance therewith.
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26. Any member or Officer of the Board, duly author ised by the said Board in writing, may, at any time between the hours of six in the morning and six in the evening enter any shop or premises used for the sale or preparation for sale, or for the storage of food, to inspect and examine any food found therein which he shall have reason to believe is intended to be used as human food, and in case any such food appear to such member or Officer to be unfit for such use he may seize the same, and the Board may order it to be destroyed or to be so disposed of as to prevent it from being used as human food.
27. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to select and appoint, and by advertise- ment in the Hongkong Government Gazette, to notify, sufficient and proper places to be the sites of, and to be used as Cemeteries or places of burial for the Chinese; and from time to time, to alter, vary, and repeal the said Notifications by others, to be advertised in the like man- ner; and in such Cemeteries or places, it shall be lawful for the Chinese, in conformity with the provisions of the Notifications actually in force; to bury their dead, yet so as that any person who shall use for that purpose a grave of less than six feet in depth from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than five dollars.
28. The Governor in Council is authorized from time to time to notify by advertisement in the Hong- hong Government Gazette, that any Chinese cemetery or burial ground shall, from a time in such Notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accord- ingly; and whosoever after the expiration of the said specified time shall bury any corpse in the said cemetery or burial ground shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars.
29. Whosoever shall bury any corpse or coffin in any ground not being a cemetery or burial ground authorized under this or any other Ordinance, shall (except in cases provided for by section 27 of this Ordinance) for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars.
30. The penalties specified in sections 27 and 28 shall be deemed to be cumulative, and not substituted penalties, in any case where the commission of any of the offences to which the same are applicable shall occasion a Nuisance within the meaning of this Ordinan ce.
31. Where any person is suffering from Small-pox or any other contagious or infectious disease and is without proper lodging or accommodation or is lodged in a tenement occupied by more than one family or is on board any ship or vessel a Magistrate may on the certificate of the Colonial Surgeon or any other duly qualified Medical practitioner order the removal of such person to such suitable hospital or other like place as may be provided for the purpose.
for appeal.