L.S.
HONG KONG.
18
No. 12 OF 1929.
I assent.
C. CLEMENTI, Governor.
26th July, 1929.
An Ordinance to amend the Waterworks Ordi-
nance, 1903.
[26th July, 1929.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Waterworks Short titlo. Amendment Ordinance, 1929.
2. Sub-paragraph (¿¿) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of Amendment the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is amended by the sub- of Ordinance stitution of the word "amount" for the word "allowance" No. 16 of
1903, in the third line thereof.
s. 2 (a) (ii).
3. The following section is inserted in the Waterworks Insertion Ordinance, 1903, immediately after section 2 thereof :-
Meaning of
quarter
of new section 2A
2A. In this Ordinance references to a quar- in Ordinance ter in connexion with water supplied by meter No. 16 of
1903. shall be construed as references to the period between two consecutive readings of the meter in question as provided by any regulation made under this Ordinance with reference to the calenlation of the quarterly consumption.
4. Section 5 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is Amendment amended by the insertion of the following words immedi- of Ordinance. ately after the word "rent" in the sixth line thereof :-
", and the sum (if any) due in respect of the quarterly amount referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of section 2, ".
No. 16 of 1903, s. 5.
5. Section 23 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is Amendment amended as follows:
of Ordinance No. 16 of
(a) by the deletion of the words "such price not 1903, s. 23.
to exceed one dollar per thousand gallons" in paragraph (1) thereof;
(b) by the addition of the following words at the
end of paragraph (3) thereof :-
", the regulation or restriction of the per- sons resorting or desiring to resort thereto, the apportionment or rationing or restriction of the supplies which may be taken there- from, and the giving of powers to police officers and others with a view to such regulation, apportionment, rationing, and restriction".