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A BILL
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An Ordinance for amending the Laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong.
WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for preserving and promoting the Public Health in this Colony: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.
2. The several Ordinances and parts of Ordinances mentioned in schedule A to this Ordinance appended, are hereby repealed, provided always that all Rules and Regulations made in virtue of any of the said Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and in force at the date of the passing of this Ordinance shall remain in operation until they shall have been amended or repealed.
3. In this Ordinance and in any Bye-Laws made thereunder, the following words and expressions shall have the meanings hereinafter assigned to them unless such meanings be repugnant to or inconsistent with the context.
1. The word Board shall mean the Municipal Board of Health of Hongkong.
2. The word Owner shall mean every house-owner, or proprietor to the Board appointed under section ... of this Ordinance, the person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint-tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person, or where the owner cannot be found or ascertained the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an Owner.
The word Occupier shall mean the person in actual occupation of the premises.
The word Person and words applied in this Ordinance to any individual shall apply to and include Corporations, Companies, and Associations.
6. The expression Author of a Nuisance shall signify the person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues, or if such person cannot be found or ascertained the Owner or the Occupier of the premises.
7. The word Premises shall include Lands, Buildings, and Structures of any kind, Streams, Nullahs, Ponds, Pools, Paddy-fields, Marshes, Drains, Ditches, or Places open, covered, or enclosed, Cess-pools and Foreshores, also any Vessel or Boat lying within the waters of the Colony.
8. The word Vessel shall include any steam or sailing ship, launch, junk, lighter, sampan, or boat.
9. The word Food shall include every article used for food or drink other than drugs or water.
10. The word Drug shall include every medicine for internal and external use.
11. The word Building shall mean and extend to every building, house, dwelling-house, tenement-house, verandah, cook-house, privy, gallery, balcony, chimney, bridge, out-house, stable, mat-shed, warehouse, manufactory, shop, work-room, distillery, and place of secure stowage.
12. The word Domestic Building shall mean every human habitation, and shall extend to any building where persons pass the night.
The word Unhealthy shall mean anything which is in the opinion of the Board injurious to Health.
4. The Board known by the name of the Sanitary Board of Hongkong shall be styled the Municipal Board of Health of Hongkong, and shall exercise supervision and control over all matters connected with Sanitation in the Colony.
The said Board shall consist of the Surveyor General, the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Colonial Surgeon, and the Sanitary Superintendent for the time being, and four additional members, three of whom shall be appointed by the Governor and two elected by such taxpayers as are included in the special and common Jury-lists of the Colony and also by such taxpayers as are exempted from serving on Juries on account of their professional avocations by the Justices of the Peace.
5. The Governor shall from nominees submitted by the Board appoint the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of the said Board, and the names of the persons appointed members as aforesaid of the Board shall be forthwith notified in the Government Gazette, and any number of the Government Gazette containing a notice of any such appointments shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof before any Magistrate or Court of Law.
Not more than five official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.
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