A BILL
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No. 24-15.12.1903.]
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An Ordinance to amend The Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, (No. 1 of 1903).
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council theroof, as follows:--
1. This Ordinace may be cited as The Public Dealth Short title' and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1908, and shall be and cou- read and constrmed as one with The Public Health and struction. Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance,
C. O.
1907
PART 1.
Preliminary.
2. Sub-section 14 of section 6 of the Principal Ordi- Repeal of nance is hereby repealed.
Sub-sections 17, 26 and 51 of section 6 of the Principal Ordinance are hereby repeated and the following sub- sections are substituted in place thereof :—
sub-section
14 of section
6 of Ord. No.
1 of 1905.
Repeal of sub-sections
17, 26 and 51
of section 6
sections
17. "Cubicle" means any portion of a room which is of Ord. No. 1 partitioned off for the purposes of being used as a of 1903 and sleeping place and which is not provided with a new sub- skylight, window or windows of its own (independ- aubstituted. emily of the window area of the room in which such enbicle is created) opening either directly or across a verandah or balcony into the external air and having a total aren equal to at least one-tenth of the floor area of such room and capable of being opened to the extent of one half at least and unless the glazed area of such window or windows is equal to one half at least of the total area of such window or windows.
26. External air" menus the air of any space which is vertically open to the sky and mobstructed and which, when measured from and at right angles to the external surface of a wall, or where there is a verandah or balcony when mensured from the ex- terual surface of such cerandch ar balcony, has a dimension of not less than 13 feet throughout the extent of any window opening in such wall, ant when measured parallel to the external surface of such wall, verandah or balcony and in a horizontal direction has a dimension of not less than 5 fect. 51. "Room" includes any sub-livison of any storey
of any domestic buikling other than--
(4) a cubicle.
(L) a drying-room, store-ruom, pautry, lobby or landing which is not used for sleeping pur- poses.
PART II.
Constitution and General Powers of Sanitary Board.
3. Section 8 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby re- Repeal of pealod and the following is substituted in pince thereof section 8 of
Ort. No. 1 of 8. The Sanitary Board shall consist of the Principal 1903 and new Civil Medical Officer (who shall ex-officio be Presi- section sub- dent of the Board), the Director of Public Works, stituted, the Registrar General, The Captain Superintendeni of Police, the Medical Officer of Health, and wot more than six additional members, four of whom (two being Chinese) shall be appointed by the Gox- ernor and two elected by such ratepayers as are included in the Special and Commoù Jury Lists, and also by such ratepayers as are exempt from serving on jurios on account of their professional avocations. Non-official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.
The Principal Civil Medical Officer shall give such directious as may be necessary for carrying out and giving effect to the decisions of the Board, and shall be the administrative head of the Sanitary Departinent."
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