Foreword.
In his Report on the need for reorganization of the Medical and Sanitary Services of the Colony of Hong Kong the Director of those services recommended that the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, (No. 1 of 1903), which deals with building construction, sanitation, infectious diseases control, food control, etc., should be broken up into a number of Ordinances each dealing with a particular branch of the Public Health complex. This series of six Bills of Ordinances has been drafted with a view to showing in detail the nature of the legislation he proposes. These Ordinances are intended to replace not only the Public Health and Buildings Ordin- ances, but also the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance. 1896, and portions of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.
The Bill for the Buildings Ordinance has been so drafted that it may be passed separately. The remaining five (the Urban Council Ordinance, the Public Health (Sanitation} Ordinance, the Public Health (Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance), the Public Health (Food) Ordinance, and the Adulterated Food and Drugs Ordinance) are linked and involve the substitution of a newly created Urban Council for the Sanitary Board. They are drafted accordingly with a clause, at the end of each, which will enable them, if approved and passed, to be brought into force simultaneously by Proclamation.
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