BOARDING-HOUSE.
No. 23 of 1917.
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No. 23 of 1917.
An Ordinance to provide for the licensing and control of places where persons are lodged for hire.
[Originally No. 23 of 1917.
No. 18 of 1929.
No. 36 of 1931.
[12th October, 1917.]
No. 7 of 1935.
No. 9 of 1935.
No. 25 of 1937.
Law Rev. Ord., 1939.]
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Boarding-house Ordinance, 1917.
Short title.
2. (1) In this Ordinance, "boarding-house" shall include every place where any person is harboured or lodged for any kind 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, Ordinance No. 10 of 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 or Ku Li Kun (Kuli Kun);
(d) places where employers lodge their employees, 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.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1920.
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;
See No. 12 of 1923 [Vaccination], s. 8.
As amended by No. 9 of 1935 [1.1.36] and Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.