(34 of 1955).
Designation of Au- thorities. Third Schedule.
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Government and includes, for the purposes of this Ordinance, any part of a sewer from the outlet of any disconnecting trap to its junction with a public sewer or drain, and the expression "private sewer" means any other sewer; "slaughterhouse" means any premises or place habitually used for the slaughter of animals for human consumption, and the expression "public slaughterhouse" means a slaughterhouse managed by the Government, and the expression "private slaughterhouse" means any other slaughterhouse:
"street refuse" means dust, dirt, rubbish, mud, road scrapings or filth,
but does not include excretal matter;
"trade refuse" means the refuse of any trade, manufacture or business
or of any building materials;
"urban areas" means the Colony excluding the New Territories except
New Kowloon:
“vault” includes underground burial places of every description, except
graves:
"ventilating system" means a mechanical system for introducing or
exhausting air:
"vermin" includes rodents, and also includes cockroaches, mites, ticks, bugs, fleas, lice and itch mites, and the eggs, larvae, nymphs of pupae thereof;
“vessel" means any ship, junk, sampan, boat or other description of craft within the waters of the Colony, but does not include registered ocean going ships nor any ships or vessels belonging to Her Majesty or the Government of any foreign power or the Government of any country of the Commonwealth or the Government of the Republic of Ireland:
“wasbhouse” includes open drying grounds; "workplace" means any premises, vessel or place in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleansed, rapaired, ornamented, finished. adapted for sale, broken up or demolished or in which material are transformed (including shipbuilding), but does not include any workplace registered under section 7 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, 1955.
3. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the Authority for the purposes of each of the sections of this Ordinance specified in the first column of the Third Schedule shall-
(a) in the urban areas and in respect of any matters specified in the second column of that Schedule, be the public officer d public body specified in respect thereof in the said second column of that Schedule; and
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(6) save where otherwise provided in the third column of that Schedule, in the New Territories and in respect of any matters specified in the said third column of that Schedule, be the public officer or public body specified in respect thereof in the said third column of that Schedule.
(2) The Governor in Council may by order designate any public officer or public body to be the Authority for the purposes of any of the sections of this Ordinance in substitution for the public officer or public body specified in the Third Schedule as the Authority for the purposes of that section.
(3) The Governor in Council may by order amend, add to or delete from the Third Schedule.
PART II.
SEWERS AND DRAINS.
The Authority shall be responsible for causing the construc- Construc tion, repair and maintenance of all public sewers, drains or drainage (ion and works, and may alter or disconnect the connexion therewith of any of public private sewer, drain or drainage works.
maintenance
Kewers and drains.
5. The Authority shall be responsible for the proper clearing. Cleansing of cleansing and emptying of public sewers, drains and drainage works, public and for the abatement of nuisances arising in connexion therewith. sowers.
6. (1) Any person who-
(a)
places or throws any solid matter, mud or refuse (except such as is contained in ordinary house sewage) in or into any public sewer or drain or any sewer, drain, inlet or other drainage work communicating with any public sewer or drain, or over any grate communicating with any public sewer or drain;
(b) causes or knowingly permits any such matter, mud or refuse to be placed or thrown, or to fall, or to be carried, in or into any public sewer or drain or over any such grate;
(c) causes or knowingly permits any such matter, mud or refuse to be placed in such a position as to be liable to fall or be carried as aforesaid:
(d) discharges into any public sewer or drain or into any sewer or drain which, not being a public sewer or drain, communicates therewith, any chemicals, oils, petroleum or petroleum-spirit or any manufacturing, trade or other refuse (not included as afore- said) or any waste steam, or any heated liquid, which, either alone or in combination with other matter in any sewer or drain, causes or may cause nuisance or danger to persons entering or being in, or near to, any public sewer or drain or danger to any public sewer or drain itself; or
Protection of public
sewers
and druins.