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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, DA
(No. 30 of 1960).
PUBLIC CLEANSING AND PREVENTION OF NUISANCES
(NEW TERRITORIES) REGULATIONS, 1963.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 15 of the Publi Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-
PART I. PRELIMINARY.
1. These regulations may be cited as the Public Cleansing and Prevention of Nuisances (New Territories) Regulations, 1963, and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by Proclamation in the Gazette.
2. These regulations apply to the New Territories only.
3. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- "dangerous refuse" means any refuse of a kind specified in the
Schedule:
"Director" means the Director of Urban Services:
"excretal matter" means the excretal matter of any person; "house refuse" means ashes, cinders, dust, rubbish or filth, but does no include dangerous refuse or trade refuse or excretal matter; “premises" includes land, buildings, structures and basements, and in
relation to any building includes the curtilage thereof; "refuse collecting point" means any place at which the Director, or B
licensee or contractor of the Director provides services for fix removal of refuse for disposal;
"street refuse" means dust, dirt, rubbish, mud, road scrapings or filth.
but does not include excretal matter from latrines.
PART II.
PREVENTION OF NUISANCES IN STREETS AND PUBLIC PLACES. 4. No person shall-
(a) sweep or otherwise remove from any shop or house into any street or public place any waste paper, shaving, or other refuse; (b) throw down or leave in any street or public place any bil placard or other paper which has been torn off or removed from any bill-posting station;
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(c) beat, shake, sweep, brush or cleanse in any street, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., any carpet, drugget, rug or mat, or any other fabric retaining dust or dirt; or
(d) being a newsvendor or other street trader or hawker, throw down and leave in any street or public place any waste paper, shavings, left-overs, peel or other refuse,
5. (1) No person shall place or deposit and leave on or io— Litter.
(a) any highway, street, roadside or public place; or
(b) any water (including the sea), watercourse or ditch in or abut-
ting on any highway, street, roadside or public place.
any glass, china, earthenware, tin, carton, paper or other refuse so as wo create or tend to create a litter.
(2) Nothing in this regulation shall be construed to prohibit the ising of any act being or forming part of the customary manner of observance of any religious or traditional festival or religious or tradi-
tional occasion.
Titter.
6. No person shall, in any street or public place, throw or leave Dangerous am orange peel, banana skin, sugar cane residue, other fruit peelings or alices, or any other substance likely to cause danger to the public.
7. No person shall throw, place or leave any bottle or any broken Bottles, broken glass or other sharp substance (not being material used in the con- glass, etc. struction or repair of a street) on or in any street or public place in such a position as to be likely to cause injury to persons or damage to property.
& No person, other than a public officer acting in the course of Prohibition his duty, shall pick up or collect, or cause to be picked up or collected, against
collecting any cigarette ends or waste tobacco discarded as refuse in any street cigarette ends of public place.
and waste tobacco.
9. (1) No person shall in any street or public place or in any Obeying place exposed to the public view or in any other improper place obey calls of
the call of nature.
(2) No person having the care or custody of any child under twelve years of age shall permit, without reasonable cause, such child to obey the call of nature in any street or public place or in any place exposed to the public view or in any other improper place.
cature.
10. No person in charge of any cart, vehicle, load, agricultural Carrying of :mplement or machine shall allow any mud, clay, lime or other material mud, etc, onto the carried thereon to drop and remain on any public street or road in highway. such manner as to, or to be likely to result in obstruction or danger to persons using such street or road or in injury to the surface of such