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disease, special permits, segregation, depots, compensation for animals slaughtered by order of the Urban Council, the prevention of suffering and the limitation of liability for acts done in good faith under it. I now move the first reading.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.
Objects and Reasons.
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:
This is a new Ordinance drafted in the main by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services to provide an up to date code for the control and prevention of disease among animals and birds, for which local legislation has hitherto made no adequate provision. It is one of the series of Bills that have been drafted to deal with public health.
BOARDING HOUSE AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1935.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Boarding-house Ordinance, 1917." He said: Sir, I rise to move the first reading of the Board- ing House Amendment Bill, a short Bill to which is attached a schedule containing rules for the type of common lodging houses known as Ku Li Kun and generally occupied as bachelor quarters by persons of the labouring, artizan or mechanical classes. The purpose of this Bill is explained in the memorandum of Objects and Reasons. I now move the first reading.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.
Objects and Reasons.
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:
1. Up to the present the control of common lodging-houses has been divided, the Governor in Council being empowered by the Board- ing-house Ordinance, 1917, to make regulations, and the Sanitary Board by the Public Health & Buildings Ordinance, 1903, to make by- laws, for their governance.
2. The purpose of this amending Bill is to provide under the former Ordinance a complete and separate group of rules governing such houses which are known to the Chinese as "ku li kun." The enforcement of the licensing provisions of these rules will remain in the hands of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, while the Health Officers will see to the enforcement of the provisions for sanitation.
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