Power of Council La clos bathhouses.
Fees.
Bathhouses
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(6) If it appears to the licensee of any bathhouse that any person therein, other than a person who has been duly exempted from the provisions of paragraph (1), is suffering from any communicable disease, the licensee may direct such person to leave the bathhouse.
16. (1) For the purpose of protecting the public health, the Council may, at any time, order that all bathhouses, or any specified bathhouse, shall be closed to the public for such period as may, in the opinion of the Council, be necessary.
(2) No person shall, for the purpose of bathing therein, enter any bathhouse in respect of which an order has been made under the provi sions of paragraph (1).
(3) Every order made under the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be published in the Gazette,
17. (1) Every licence issued under these by-laws shall be renewable annually on the 1st day of April.
(2) The grant or renewal of any such licence shall be subject to the payment in advance to the Treasury of a fee of one hundred and fifty dollars:
Provided that, where any such licence is issued after the 30th day of September in any year, the fee payable in respect of the grant of that licence shall be onc-half of the fee prescribed.
(3) Where the Council is satisfied that any such licence has been lost or destroyed, the Council may upon payment of a fee of five dollars issue a duplicate thereof.
18. For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that every to be public part of a bathhouse shall, for the purpose of offences relating to public
decency, be deemed to be a public place.
places for
the purpose
of public
decency.
Offences and penalties.
19. (1) Any person who-
(a) contravenes any of the provisions of by-law 4, 10, 11, 13 or 14 or of paragraph (1) of by-law 9. paragraph (1). (4) or (5) of by-law 15 or paragraph (2) of by-law 16;
(b) being a person employed or working in a bathhouse-
() fails to submit himself to medical examination when required to do so under the provisions of paragraph (2) of by-law 15: or
(i) fails to cease to work in any bathhouse when required to do so by the provisions of that paragraph; or
(c) fails to comply with any direction given to him under the
provisions of paragraph (6) of by-law 15.
shall be guilty of an offence.
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(2) In the event of any contravention of any of the provisions of by-law 7, 8 or 12 or of paragraph (2) or (3) of by-law 9, the licensee of the bathhouse shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) Any person who is guilty of an offence under these by-laws shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for one month and, where the offence is a continu- ing offence, shall be liable in addition to a fine of ten dollars for each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the offence has continued.
which
20. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment Name in relating to the prosecution of criminal offences and without prejudice to proceedings the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of for offences such offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of may be brought. these by-laws may be brought in the name of the Council.
23. (1) Any licence granted under the provisions of the Public Transitional Bath-House By-laws, 1951, which is in force at the commencement of provisions. these by-laws shall be deemed to be a licence granted under these (G.N.A by-laws.
(2) Upon application for the renewal of any licence under these by-laws which is a licence thereunder by virtue of the provisions of paragraph (1) of this by-law, the Council shall grant to the applicant a renewal thereof.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (1), where it appears to the Council that any bathhouse in relation to which a licence was granted under the said Public Bath House By-laws, 1951, is in any particular unsatisfactory having regard to the provisions of these by- laws, the Council may serve upon the licenses thereof a notice requiring him, as a condition precedent to any renewal of the licence subsequent to the renewal thereof provided for in paragraph (2), to carry out such alterations or additions in respect of such bathhouse as may be specified in the notice, and, if it thinks ft. to supply to the Council a plan of the bathhouse in the manner required by the provisions of by-Jaw 5.
35/51).
22. It is hereby declared that, for the purposes of subsection (1) of Provisions section 150 of the Ordinance, the provisions of these by-laws shall be in of by-laws substitution for the provisions of the Public Bath-House By-laws, 1951. substitution
Made by the Urban Council this 7th day of February, 1961.
1.3 Whithery
Secretary.
to be in
For provi-
sions of Public Bath- House By-laws,
1951.