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Position of Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
Duties of Chairman
of Council.
Duties of Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
Constitution unaffected
by vacancies
on the
Council.
Council meetings.
Quoram.
Standing orders.
Appointment of select committees.
Delegation
of powers
to Health
Officers or
to select committees.
Failure to comply with orders of tho Health
Officers or
of select
committees.
10. The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall be the professional adviser to the Council in all medical matters including matters of public health and sanitation. It shall be his duty to assist and advise the Council on such matters and to superintend the enforcement and observance of all Ordinances relating to Public Health and of the by-laws and regulations made thereunder.
11. (1) The Chairman of the Council shall give such instructions as may be necessary for carrying out and giving effect to the decisions and policy of the Council, and shall be responsible also for the general administration of the Sanitary Department.
(2) On receipt of any such instructions affecting public health the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall issue the necessary directions to the officers under his control and shall be responsible for their being duly carried out.
12. The Council shall be held to be legally constituted notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by the death, absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.
13. (1) The Council shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The Chairman may at any time, and shall, on a requisi- tion signed by three members of the Council, summon a meet- ing thereof.
(2) Any four members shall be a quorum, and at every meeting at which the Chairman or Vice-Chairman is absent the members present shall appoint a temporary chairman to pre- side. The chairman at any meeting shall have an original vote and also, if the votes be equal, a casting vote.
14.-(1) The Council may make Standing Orders for regulating the procedure at its meetings.
(2) The present Standing Orders of the Sanitary Board ehall continue in force so far as they are applicable until re- placed under this section.
15. (1) The Council may appoint select committees, consisting of not less than two of its members or one of its members and a Health Officer or a Veterinary Officer, and may by appointment or removal change the personnel of any such committee.
(2) The Council may by resolution delegate any of its powers and functions to any Health Officer or to any such select committee as aforesaid, with full powers to enforce any of the provisions of any Ordinance or by-law conferring powers on the Council or providing for the more effectual sanitation of the Colony, and may revoke such delegation.
(3) Any failure to comply with the orders of a Health Officer or of such select committee, duly signed by the Secre- tary of the Council, shall be punishable in the same manner as if such order had been made by the Council
of references
to Sanitary
16. Whenever in any Ordinance, Order of the Governor Construction in Council, Order of the Governor, Standing Order, rule, re- gulation, minute, by-law, deed, contract, official letter or other Board, otc, document, the term "Sanitary Board" or "President of the Sanitary Board" occurs, and, in order to give effect thereto
it is necessary to substitute "Urban Council" or "Chairman of the Urban Council" such document shall be read and construed accordingly.
Ordinance
17. Subject to section 9 of the Interpretation Ordinance, Commence- 1911, and except for the purposes of appointing or electing ment. the first members of the Council, this Ordinance shall not come into operation until such date as the Governor shall notify 1911. by Proclamation as the commencement of this Ordinance.
No. 1 of 1903,
1928, No. 30
18. The Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, Repeal of the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1927, Ordinances the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1928, No. 6 of 1927, the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1920, No. 18 of the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1930, of 1929, the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1931, No. 18 of the Public Health and Buildings Amendment (No. 2) Ordin- of 1931, ance, 1931, and the Public Health and Buildings Amendment No. 18 of Ordinance, 1935, are repealed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this
28th day of February, 1935.
R. A. C. NORTH,
Deputy Clerk of Councils
1930, No. 3
1931 and No. 2 of 1935.
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