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REPORT
on An Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to amend the New Territories Regulation
Ordinance, 1910,
The object of this Ordinance is to endeavour to bring
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under proper control, and similarly to provide for the future, the
markets in the New Territories. A few already exist but they
are under no proper supervision and the Government has no prac-
tical authority over them. In time to come no doubt other
markets will be established in suitable places.
It was thought
that the simplest way of dealing with this matter was to add the
necessary provisions to the New Territories Regulation Ordinance,
1910. The object being to keep, so far as possible contained
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in one Ordinance the administrative arrangements applicable to
this particular part of the Colony.
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Section 1 of the Ordinance is formal.
Section 2 of the Ordinance repeals the definition of
land contained in the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910 (Ordinance No.34 of 1910) and replaces it by a new definition
which now includes market building and any rent or profit aris-
ing therefrom. The object of this is to put the market buildings
and any rent or profit arising therefrom on the same footing as
land as defined in the Ordinance and to bring such under the di-
VL rect administrati powers of the District Officers in the settle- ment of any disputes in connection therewith.
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By Section 3 of the Ordinance, Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is amplified. Section 6 of the original Ordinance gave
power to the Governor-in-Council to make various rules in connection
with Revenue matters, taxes, contributions and the like; under the
bas amplification of the present Ordinance, the Governor-in-Council is given power by notification in the Gazette and suitable Chinese
publication
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(a) to declare that any specified place shall be
the market for any area within the New Terri-
tories (exclusive of New Kowloon which dis-
trict is not included in the scope of the
present Ordinance)
(b) to determine the boundaries of such declared
market
(c) to fix the boundaries of the area for which
such declared market shall be the market.
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(a), (b) and (e) above certain village might be declared to
be the market for a particular area; a certain locality or spot in
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the village might be declared to be the market place; whilst the no-
minal area for which the market is to serve be definitely des-
cribed and determined.
(d) to make rules prescribing the character of market
buildings, providing for market management and
inspection, prohibiting the sale within any area
served by a declared market of any commodity un-
less sold in the proper market place; prescribing
the kind of commodity which may be sold and where;
providing for the sanitary maintenance of the con-
ander ditions which the market is conducted; providing
for the control and appropriation of market funds
and for the fees to be taken for the purpose of
maintainin a market property; and finally pres-
cribing any other requisite matter necessary or
desirable in the interests of sanitation or good
order of the market3.
Under the powers given in paragraph (d) it will be possible
Peste to see that market buildings are at any rate in some measure
it will also suitable for the purposes for which they are intended;
be possible to ensure honest and capable management; to provide against the establishment or attempted establishment of overlappping