5. When the Sanitary Board is satisfied that a house sought to be registered as a Common Lodging-House is suitable for such a purpose, it shall inform the Registrar General accordingly who may then register such house as a Common Lodging-House.
6. Before any person can be licensed as a keeper of a Common Lodging-House, an application must be made to the Registrar General and such application must be accompanied by a certificate of character from one or more respectable householders as defined by the Victoria Registration Ordinance, 1866.
7. When the Registrar General is satisfied with the character of an applicant for a licence to keep a Common Lodging-House he may issue a licence to such applicant accordingly.
8. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall not suffer or permit in any room of his Common Lodging-House, a greater number of persons to sleep or lodge than the number specified by the Sanitary Board, which shall be in the proportion of not more than one adult person for every three hundred cubic feet of clear space contained therein. Two children of fourteen years of age or under to be counted as one person.
9. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall reduce the number of lodgers in any room of his Common Lodging-House upon receiving notice in writing from the Sanitary Board stating the cause for making such reduction, and the period for which it shall continue in force.
10. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall affix and keep in a conspicuous position on the outside of his Common Lodging-House, a board, having painted on it in English and Chinese in legible white letters and characters on a black ground, not less than two inches long, the words "Registered Lodging-House." He shall also affix and keep in a conspicuous place in each room, a board having painted on it in English and Chinese the number of persons the room is registered to accommodate.
11. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall not permit males and females above ten years of age respectively to occupy the same sleeping apartment except in the cases of husband and wife, and parents and children, and he shall prevent any person occupying his house for immoral purposes.
12. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall not knowingly permit persons of bad character to lodge in his house and he shall maintain and enforce good order and decorum therein; and he shall also keep a Register of the name, occupation and native place of each lodger.
13. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall not permit the kitchen of his house to be used as a sleeping room.
14. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall cause the windows of each of the sleeping rooms to be kept open to their full width from 9 A.M. till sunset unless prevented by tempestuous weather or by the illness of any person occupying any of the rooms.
15. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall cause the internal walls and ceilings of every part of his house to be thoroughly cleansed and lime-washed during the sixth and twelfth months of the Chinese year.
16. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall at all times keep his premises in a clean and wholesome condition, and the fittings of the sleeping rooms shall be maintained by him in a thorough state of repair. He shall cause every room, passage and stair to be thoroughly swept at least once a day.
17. The keeper of a Common Lodging-House shall cause all filth and house refuse or other offensive matter to be removed from his premises daily.
18. If any person in a Common Lodging-House becomes ill from any infectious, contagious, or communicable disease, the keeper of such Common Lodging-House shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Inspector of Nuisances in whose district the lodging-house is situated, or to the nearest Police Station; and the keeper of such Common Lodging-House shall cause the house to be vacated for the purpose of fumigation, disinfection or lime-washing, and of allowing the bedding, clothing, and other articles used by the infected person to be destroyed or disinfected at the public expense, in such manner as the Sanitary Board may direct.
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