on closure Mr. 2. to Your Diep. H.. 329 of 1901.
ORDINANCE No. 13 OF 1901.
Public Health.
No. 13 of 1901.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong.
LS
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor.
[25th March, 1901.]
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WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the
Preamble.
laws relating to public health in this Colony:
Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :--
Preliminary.
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as the
Short title.
Public Health Ordinance, 1901.
2.-(1) The several Ordinances and parts of Ordinances
Ordinances
mentioned in Schedule A to this Ordinance are hereby repealed.
(2) The bye-laws contained in Schedule B, shall be
Bye-laws
deemed to have been duly made by the Sanitary Board,
continued
approved by the Legislative Council, and Gazetted, under
in force.
this Ordinance, and shall remain in force until altered,
amended or revoked.
(3) All persons now holding any office or appointment
Existing
under any Ordinance repealed by this Ordinance shall con-
officers, etc.
tinue to hold such office or appointment as if they had been
appointed under this Ordinance.
3. In this Ordinance and in any bye-laws made there-
Definitions.
under, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
words and expressions have or include the meanings here-
inafter respectively assigned to them, namely
"Author of a nuisance" means the person by whose
Author of a
act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance
nuisance.
arises or continues:
"Board" means the Sanitary Board :
Board.
“Building” includes any house, dwelling-house, tene-
Building.
ment-house, common lodging-house, verandah, cook-
house, privy, gallery, balcony, chimney, bridge, out-
house, stable, matshed, warehouse, manufactory, shop,
work-room, distillery, and place of secure stowage.
of Ord. 24 of 1888 (88) s. 15" and Ord. #5" 1854.
13 of 1888 (3)
OL. 34 of 1857 s. 3
Ibid.
Ord. 15 of 1854 s. 2