190
Ord. 15 A, 1885. /
wild the work
City of Victoria. "Rhond
"
"the center of Lis mullah,
the
Militand for.
the Show windge
Corgan
The show-bridge is existence)
Common
Und. 4 of 1895 3, 2 Lodging-house.
Ond. 34 of 1885 5. 2
Domestic building.
Ond. 24×4 1887 s. 3. Drugs.
Food.
I bid
Cal.344/855 $. 2. Hill District.
Ord. 24 of 1887 5, 3 Mill-side.
Ibid.
House. bokter.
Ibid.
Keeper of a
common
loging-house Owh. 30 of 1900 5. 4 Kowloon.
Ind.
New 5. 2 Kowloon,
# ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.
## Public Health.
"City of Victoria" means that portion of Hongkong bounded on the north by the harbour; on the south by a contour of the hillside six hundred feet above the level of the sea; on the east by a straight line from the centre of the nullah crossing the Shaukiwan Road at the south-west corner of Causeway Bay, to the Wongneichong public school-house, produced southward until it meets the southern boundary; and on the west by Mount Davis:
"Common Lodging-house" includes---
(a.) any house or part thereof where usually male persons only are housed--not being members of the same family--to the number of ten persons and upwards.
(b.) any permanent structure in which employer of labour lodge their employés other than domestic servants or shopmen:
"Domestic building" means any human habitation or building where persons pass the night, but does not include any building where caretakers only, not exceeding two in number, pass the night:
"Drug" means any medicine for internal or external use:
"Food" means any article used for food or drink other than drugs or water;
"Hill District"
means any part of the island of Hongkong above the six hundred feet contour, except Chinese villages:
"Hill-side" means the face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining-wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining-wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building:
"Householder" means the actual tenant or occupier of any building, or in cases where there is no such person, then the immediate landlord of such building, and, in the case of corporations, companies, and associations, the secretary or manager thereof shall be deemed the householder, and shall be liable under this Ordinance:
"Keeper of a common lodging-house" means any person licensed to keep a common lodging-house:
"Kowloon" includes New Kowloon:
"New Kowloon" means that portion of the New Territories which is delineated and shown upon a plan marked "New Kowloon," signed by the Director of
# ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.
## Public Health.
Public Works and countersigned by the Governor and deposited in the Land Office of this Colony:
"New Territories" means the additional territories acquired by this Colony under the provisions of a Convention, dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between
30
718005.3.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, for the enlargement of the limits of this Colony, including the City of Kowloon:
"New building" includes any building begun after the commencement of this Ordinance, and any building begun before the commencement of this Ordinance and which is in course of construction at the time of such commencement, and any existing building hereafter altered to such an extent as to necessitate the removal of the roof and the reconstruction of at least one half of any two of its main walls, and any existing building hereafter raised to such an extent that its total height exceeds one and a half times the original height of the building. For the purposes of this definition "main walls" mean either external or party walls. It also includes the conversion into a domestic building of any building not originally constructed for human habitation and the conversion into more than one domestic building of a building originally constructed as one domestic building only:
24 of 1887 5. 3. (See note at end of this clause)
"Occupier" means any person in actual occupation of any premises:
"Owner" includes any person holding premises direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence or otherwise, and also any 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; and, where no such owner as above defined can be found or ascertained, the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance, every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an owner:
"Person" includes a body corporate and an association:
"Premises" includes any land, building, or structure of any kind, doorway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, paddy field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered, or enclosed, cesspool or foreshore, also any vessel or boat lying within the waters of the Colony:
"Public latrine" means any latrine to which the public are admitted on payment or otherwise:
"Secretary"
means the Secretary of the Sanitary Board:
Ord. 24 of 1887 5. 2
1867-1891.3.2
bud. 8 of 1877) 5. 2
Ord. 24 of 1867 5.3.