DIGU
DROIT
SUPPLEMENT NO. 1
TO THE
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
Published by Authority
SUP. TO GAZETTE No. 12]
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949.
[VOL. XCI
HỒNG KONG
No. 5 OF 1949.
I assent.
L.S.
A. G. GRANTHAM, Governor.
24th February, 1949.
An Ordinance to make provision for the control of accommodation
provided by and charges made by hotels.
[25th February, 1949.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:
1.
1949.
2.
This Ordinance may be cited as the Hotels Ordinance, Short title.
In this Ordinance-
"charge" includes any valuable consideration and any promise to do any act or perform any service passing to or to pass from or made or to be made by the person upon whom the charge is levied or attempted to be imposed;
“contravene” includes a failure to comply;
"hotel" includes a boarding house and every place where any person is harboured or lodged for any kind of rent, hire or reward but shall not include any place where no service other than the provision of accommodation and furniture is rendered upon the premises occupied by the person so harboured or lodged;
Interpreta- tion.
'manager" means, in the case of any person registered as the manager of a hotel pursuant to regulations made under this Ordinance or under the Boarding House Ordinance, 1917, such Ordinance person, and if there is no such person, or in the absence of any
No. 27 of 1917.
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