878 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVTM GAZETTE OF 23RD JULY, 1887.
Schedule A..
The following Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and all Rules
made thereunder are repealed: *
No. 12 of 1856, sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, and 13.
No. 8 of 1858. sections 18 and 19.
No. 10 of 1872, section 6.
No. 7 of 1883.
Schedule B.
Hongkong,
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Register.
Registration of houses.
Do.
Do.
Registration of Houses.
Licensing of keepers.
Do.
Cubic space.
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NOTICE is hereby given to you on behalf of the Sanitary Board that the Nuisance specified hereunder is found to exist in your premises No.
and that you are therefore hereby required within a delay of
from the time of service upon you of the present Notice to abate such Nuisance in the manner hereunder set forth. failing which you will be liable to a fine of
By Order of the Sanitary Board.
Nature of Nuisance.
Action to be taken for the Abatement of the Nuisance.
Secretary.
Bye-laws for the proper sanitary maintenance of Common Lodging-Houses made under Ordinance No. of 1887, Section 13, Sub-section 14.
1. A Register of all Common Lodging-Houses shall be kept by the Registrar General in the form of Schedule C appended to these bye-laws.
2. Before a house can be registered as a Common Lodging- House, an application must be made to the Registrar General in the form of the Schedule D hereunto appended, setting forth the situation of the house, the number of the rooms to be set apart for lodgers and the cubic capacity of each room so set apart, and for this purpose the schedule or form will be furnished by the Registrar General.
3. The Registrar General shall transmit each application for the registration of a house as a Common Lodging- House to the Sanitary Board, and the Board shall then cause the house specified in such application to be inspected by one or more of its Officers who shall submit a report to the Board on the sanitary condition of such house, and its suitability for use as a Common Lodging-House.
4. Any house to be registered as a Common Lodging House must be substantially built and in a good state of repair, the floors must be paved with tiles or concrete or boarded with planks close jointed, and all the rooms which are to be used as sleeping rooins must be on all sides above the level of the ground immediately surrounding the house. The house-drains must be in good order and constructed in accordance with the bye-laws regulating house drainage, : there must be adequate kitchen, ablution, privy, urinal and ash-bin accommodation to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board.
5. When the Sanitary Board is satisfied that a house sought to be registered as a Common Lodging-House is suitable for such a purpose, it shall inform the Registrar General accordingly who may then register such house as a Common Lodging-House.
6. Before any person can be licensed as a keeper of a Common Lodging-House, an application must be made to the Registrar General and such application must be accom- panied by a certificate of character from one or more respectable householders as defined by the Victoria Re- gistration Ordinance, 1866.
7. When the Registrar General is satisfied with the character of an applicant for a licence to keep a Common Lodging-House he may issue a licence to such applicant accordingly.
8. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall not suffer or permit in any room of his Common Lodging- House, a greater number of persons to sleep or lodge than the number specified by the Sanitary Board, which shall be in the proportion of not more than one adult person for every three hundred cubic feet of clear space contained therein. Two children of fourteen years of age or under to be counted as one person.