CAP. 97]
Regulations— Fraser, vol. 2, p. 640.
G.N.A. 75/51.
New Territories.
LABOURERS' LINES (N.T.) RULES.
(Cap. 97, section 4). (Ordinance No. 34 of 1910).
[15th October, 1937.]
(15 of 1935.)
1.
In these rules—
"employer" includes every person who and every firm which enters into a contract of personal service, written or verbal, for any period of time with any labourer, and the agent of such person or firm;
"health officer" means a health officer under the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935;
"labourer" includes every person employed for the purpose of personally performing any manual labour, except a domestic servant, gardener or agricultural labourer; "lines" means any building or shed used or intended to be used temporarily or permanently for the housing of labourers.
2. All lines shall be situated, erected and maintained to the satisfaction of the Director of Medical and Health Services and constructed of such materials as he may approve.
In this rule, "erected and maintained" includes the provision of such mosquito-proofing as the Director of Medical and Health Services may in any case prescribe.
3. In all lines each labourer shall be allotted not less than 35 square feet of habitable floor space and 350 cubic feet of unobstructed air space not less than ten feet in height, and no labourer shall be housed or permitted to sleep in any lines in contravention of this rule.
4. (1) On the report of a health officer the Director of Medical and Health Services may by notice in writing require any employer to cleanse, disinfect, whitewash, demolish, remove, alter, repair, enlarge or replace any lines in his control.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such notice may prescribe—
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