ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1883 . 1745
Order and Cleanliness.
No. 7 of 1883 .
An Ordinance entitled The Order and Cleanliness Amendment Ordinance,
1883 .
[ 13th June, 1883. ]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative
BⓇ Council thereof, as follows :
1. Sections 10 , 13, 14, and 15 of Ordinance 9 of 1867, are hereby repealed, but Repeal.
such repeal shall not affect the validity or invalidity of anything done or suffered before
the passing of this Ordinance.
2. The Governor may constitute a permanent Sanitary Board to exercise super Sanitary Board.
vision and control over all matters connected with sanitation in the Colony .
The Board shall consist of the Surveyor General, the Registrar General and the Members of the
Board.
Colonial Surgeon for the time being, and of such other members not less than two in
number as the Governor may from time to time appoint. The Governor may at his
discretion remove any member so appointed.
The Governor may from time to time appoint and at pleasure remove a sanitary Appointment of
officers .
inspector and inspector of nuisances and such officers as the Board may require for the
purpose of carrying out the duties of the Board and the laws relating to sanitation.
Subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, the Board may make and Rules.
when made, revoke, add to, or alter rules for its own procedure and for the guidance
and conduct of its officers.
3. If any member of the Sanitary Board, or any two resident medical practitioners Overcrowded.
houses.
shall certify to a Magistrate that any house is so overcrowded or is in such a filthy and
unwholesome state as to be dangerous or injurious to the public health, the Magistrate
shall issue a summous against the householder as defined by the Victoria Registration
Ordinance, 1866, or his agent, by notice affixed to the house, to appear before the said
Magistrate who shall thereupon make such order as he may think fit ; and in case any
order so made shall not be complied with by such householder or agent, within 7 days
from the making thereof, the said Magistrate may thereupon impose on the person so
refusing or neglecting to obey the said order, a fine not exceeding $ 50, and in default
of payment, the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said order may be im
prisoned for any term not exceeding 3 months .
4. If any inspector of nuisances or any other person reports to the Sanitary Board Power to enter
house.
concerning any house or tenement that he has reason to believe :
(a.) that such house or tenement or any of the arrangements therein or con
nected therewith are in such an unwholesome or defective state as to
be or to be likely to become a source of danger to the inhabitants or
neighbours, or