AD 1899.]
LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
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having regard to any recommendations of the majority of the members of such respective Committees, he may deem fit.
6.(1.) Notification of the various Districts and Sub-districts, and Notification of the respective Committees thereof, and of the Chairmen of such Committees shall from time to time be published in The Gazette.
(2.) The production of a copy of The Gazette containing any such notification, or of any copy of such notification purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, shall be taken as prima facie evidence of the matters so notified.
7.-(1.) The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make such rules as he may deem expedient for the maintenance of the peace, good order, health, and cleanliness of, and for the furtherance of good government and well-being of, the territories to which this Ordinance applies, and for the making, improvement, or maintenance, in such territories or the waters thereof, of any roads, paths, harbours, piers, wharves, landing-places, or beacons, and may by such rules impose penalties, not exceeding in each case ten dollars, for any breach of any such rule.
(2.) In the case of a continued breach, additional penalties, not exceeding ten dollars a day, may be imposed in each case.
8. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make such rules as he may deem expedient for the appointment of watchmen in any District or Sub-district, and for the levying in any District or Sub-district of, and the collection, recovery by legal proceedings, and safe custody of, and the keeping of accounts of such contributions as may be required for the payment of such watchmen and for other purposes connected with the due observance and enforcement of any rules made under this Ordinance.
9.—(1.) All rules made under this Ordinance shall be published in The Gazette, in English and in Chinese, and shall thereupon become as valid and binding as if inserted in this Ordinance.
(2.) Such rules shall be publicly notified in Chinese by the Colonial Secretary in the Districts and Sub-districts subject to their operation, and copies in English and in Chinese, certified by him as correct, shall be duly recorded in such Districts and Sub-districts, in such manner as he may direct.
10. It shall be the duty of the respective District and Sub-district Committees, as the case may be, to enforce, under the supervision of such officers as the Governor may appoint, and with the assistance of the police, the rules made under this Ordinance.