ORDINANCE No. 24 of 1887.
Public Health.
23. Where the nuisance proved to exist is such as to render a house or building, in the judgment of the Magistrate, unfit for human habitation, the Magistrate may prohibit the using thereof for that purpose, until, in his judgment, the house or building is rendered fit for that purpose; and, on the Magistrate being satisfied that it has been rendered fit for that purpose, he may determine his previous order by another, declaring the house or building habitable, and, from the date thereof, such house or building may be let or inhabited.
Order of prohibition and use, &c. of house unfit for human habitation. [Ibid, sec. 97.]
contravention of order of Magistrate.
24. Any person not obeying an order to comply with the requisitions of the Board, and failing to satisfy the Magistrate that he has used all due diligence to carry out such order, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars per day, during his default; and any person knowingly and wilfully acting contrary to an order of prohibition, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars per day, during such contrary action; moreover, the Board may enter the premises to which any order relates, and abate the nuisance, and do whatever may be necessary in execution of such order, and recover, in a summary manner, the expenses incurred by them from the person on whom the order is made.
25. Any member, or officer of the Board duly authorised 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.
Seizure of unwholesome food.
26. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to select and appoint, and by advertisement 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 manner; 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 surface shall be liable to penalty.
Chinese cemeteries. [See Advertisement gazetted 23rd February, 1889.]
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