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No. 23 of 1917.
BOARDING-HOUSE.
[Originally No. 23 of 1917.
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
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Short title.
Interpreta-tion.
Ordinance No. 10 of 1899.
Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1920.
Rules.
No. 23 of 1917.
An Ordinance to provide for the licensing and control of places where persons are lodged for hire.
[12th October, 1917.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Boarding-house Ordinance, 1917.
2. (1) In this Ordinance, "boarding-house" shall include every place where any person is harboured or lodged for any kind whatsoever of hire or reward and where any domestic service whatsoever is rendered by the owner, lessee, principal tenant, occupier, or master, to the person so harboured or lodged: Provided that the term shall not include any boarding-house for non-Chinese seamen within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to sub-section (1), and notwithstanding anything therein contained, "boarding-house" in this Ordinance shall include the following:-
(a) hotels;
(b) boarding-houses;
(c) common lodging-houses as defined in the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903;
(d) places where employers lodge their employés, of either sex and of whatever occupation; and
(e) the premises of societies within the meaning of the Societies Ordinance, 1920, where persons pass the night.
3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make rules for the following purposes:-
(a) the classification and definition of different kinds of boarding-houses;
(b) the registration and licensing of boarding-houses;
(c) the suspension and cancellation of such licences;
(d) the fixing of fees to be paid in respect of such licences;
(e) the management and control of boarding-houses;
*See No. 12 of 1923, s. 8.
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.