1138 [ 15 of 1889. ] BUILDINGS .
3. Where the Surveyor General has reasonable grounds
for believing that within any houses, buildings, or
tenements there are works completed or being carried
out in contravention of this ordinance,
and the owner or occupier shall refuse to allow such entry , the
Surveyor General or any officer generally or specially deputed
hy himn in writing for that particular purpose may give one
day's notice to such owner or occupier, requiring to be per
mitted to enter the premises ; and in case at the espiration of
such notice, admittance shall be refused , it shall be lawful for
the Surveyor General or for ክany officer so specially deputed by
him as aforesaid to effect such entry, and to make such ins
pection, or to execute such work, as may be required for the
purposes aforesaid, doing as little damage as may be, in the
execution of the powers hereby granted .
Nuisances under this ordinance.
Nuisances. 77. The following shall be deemed nuisances under this
ordinance :
1. Every verandah over land the property of the Crown,
and every pier or wharf over a foreshore the property
of the Crown, the owner whereof in each case, shall
have neglected or refused to construct, reconstruct,
repair, maintain, or occupy the same in accordance
with the provisions of this ordinance, or with the rules
and regulations framed thereunder by the Governor
[* See No. 25 in Council. *
of 1891, s . 12. ]
2. Every building or work whatsoever hereafter to be
commenced, resumed , prosecuted, finished , or altered ,
in contravention of any section of this ordinance.
3. Every act, failure, neglect, omission or refusal, whereby
any section of this ordinance is contravened.
4. Every building or work any part of which is in a ruinous
and dangerous condition.
5. Every unauthorized encroachment on, over, or under
any land the property of the Crown .
6. Every building erected or to be hereafter erected in
contravention of any law of any inflammable material,
and every building within the City of Victoria and the
villages of Hongkong and Kowloon whereof the roof
contains any platform , superstructure, staging or
[ See No. 25 of framework of wood, ( other ihan bamboo ), muts, or
1891, 8. 9. ) other inflammable material.