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Obligation on owner of new building in village or rural district in respect of drains.
Nature of house-drain in village or
No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1901
46. The owner of any new building in a village or rural district of Hongkong or Kowloon shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty or with any other means of drainage with which such drain may lawfully communicate.
47. Wherever feasible, every house-drain in a village or rural district of Hongkong or Kowloon shall hereafter be an open drain, consisting of a semi-circular channel, of glazed stoneware jointed in cement mortar and laid to adequate falls on a bed of good lime or cement concrete, to the satisfaction of the Board.
Nature of house-drain in isolated place.
Prevention of stagnant water.
Closing and filling up of insanitary well.
Provision of open space between new building and
48. In an isolated place not connected with any public drainage system, every such open drain shall lead and empty into a covered sump or cesspit built of brick or lime concrete rendered smooth in good Portland cement mortar in such manner as to be water-tight.
Wells and Pools.
49.-(1.) No premises within the City of Victoria or any village of Hongkong or Kowloon shall be so excavated as to admit of the formation, on the surface thereof, of any pool of stagnant or other foul water.
(2.) It shall be lawful for the Board to call upon the owner of any premises whereon any such pool exists to fill up the same with good clean earth to the level of the surrounding ground or to drain off such pool by means of a surface-drain into any channel with which such surface drain may lawfully communicate.
50.--(1.) Where it is made to appear to the Board that any well is in an insanitary condition or is likely to prove injurious to health, and that it is expedient that it should be closed and filled up, the Board may call upon the owner, by notice in writing under the hand of the Secretary, to close and fill up the same within the time limited in such notice.
(2.) If such notice is not complied with, the Board may cause the owner to be summoned before a Magistrate, and the Magistrate may make such order in the matter and as to costs as he may deem right.
(3.) If the Magistrate orders the well to be closed and filled up, he may impose a penalty not exceeding five dollars for each day during which his order is not complied with.
Open Spaces, Backyards, etc.
51. Every person who erects a new building on land obtained from the Crown subsequent to the 30th day of May, 1888, and on a site excavated out of a slope or declivity, shall not permit such new building