Approved by the Legislative Council this 1st
of March, 1963.
Corresponding
By-law
existing by-law
Dan Aud
or other enactment.
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12
COUNCIL CHAMBER
1st March, 1961.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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14
19
15
16 and 17
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the by-laws, but is intended
to indicate their general purport).
These by-laws replace, with amendment, the Public Bath-House By-lam,
1951.
2. The main feature of these by-laws is the introduction of a requiremen that the proprietor of a bathhouse who is applying for a licence to maintai the same must provide the Council with plans of the premises. Once the plas has been approved, the licensee most not, save with the permission of the Council. alter the premises so that they deviate from the plan. The purpose of this requirement is to ensure, so far as possible, that, ones a bathhouse has been found to be in order and licensed, it will remain in order. In other respect, these by-laws re-spact the substance of the existing By-laws with the exceprimei of by-laws 8, 10 and 11, the provisions of which are considered to be no longo DOCESSITY.
3. A detailed Comparative Table is annexed to this Note.
COMPARATIVE TABLE.
By-law.
1
3
Corresponding
existing by-law
or other enactment,
1
7
6
7
E
9(a), (6) in part, (d)
and 10
9
9(b) in part and (c)
10
13(2), (b) and (c)
11
Remarks.
Citation. The title is changed to read Commercial Bathhouses By-laws instead of Public Bath-House By-laws. The intentiga is to distinguish between those run by private firms and those run by the Coundi. New. Application. Interpretation.
Licensing. Reframed.
To provide for the submission of plaos. Modified.
New. To prevent wauthorized alterations to the premises after licensing.
As to general cleanliness.
As to spitting.
Prohibits the unc of bathhouses for dwelling purposes. The existing by-law 13(d), which deals with balconies and verandabs, j omitted as its provisions are covered by the approval of pleas under by-law 5 and the prohibition of unauthorized alteration contained in by-law 7.
New. To prevent cooking in the public parts of bathhouses.
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17
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19
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(Secretariat GR5/3231/60)
Closing bours.
Remarks.
Reframed. To preserve public decency. Vaccination of staff.
As to communicable diseases. The provi- sions of the existing by-law 15, which require the reporting of communicable diseases, are not considered practicable and are omitted.
To provide for the closing of bathhouses on public health grounds.
The fee for a licence is increased from $100 to $150. A fce of $5 for re- placement of lost or destroyed licences prescribed.
New. For avoidance of doubt.
Offences and penalties. Modified to pro- vide for continuing offences and to make the existing term of one month's imprison- ment apply generally and not only to second or subsequent offences.
New. To provide for the bringing of proceedings.
Transitional provisions.