Citation and Commencement.
Application.
Interpretation.
Prohibition of
Volicensed laundries.
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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 132).
LAUNDRIES (NEW TERRITORIES) REGULATIONS 1969.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 40 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-
1. These regulations may be cited as the Laundries (New Territories) Regulations 1969, and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
2.
These regulations apply to the New Territories only.
3. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires
"Director" means the Director of Urban Services:
"hospital" means any premises used for the reception and treat- ment of persons suffering from illness or mental defectiveness, any maternity home and any institution for the reception and treatment of persons during convalescence or of persons requiring mental rehabilitation:
"laundering" means the washing, dry-cleaning, ironing, pressing
or otherwise the getting up of clothing: "laundry" means any premises at which there is carried on any business involving the washing, dry-cleaning, ironing, pressing or otherwise the getting up of clothing; and includes a laundry depot but does not include any laundry operated by a school or a hospital or a home for the reception of aged or disabled persons for the purposes of such school, hospital or home or for the convenience of the inmates or the staff thereof; "laundry depot" means any premises, not being part of a laundry. at which there is carried on any business involving the storage, or reception of articles for laundering or the storage or dis- tribution of articles after laundering, whether or not such business constitutes part of or is carried on in connexion with the business of a laundry;
"premises" includes place.
4. (1) Except under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Director, no person shall open or maintain a laundry.
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(2) Nothing in this regulation shall be construed to apply to a person engaged in open air wayside laundering, whether for remuneration or otherwise.
5. (1) Every application for any such licence shall be made in writing, addressed to the Director, and accompanied by three copies of a plan. drawn to scale, of the whole of the premises comprising the laundry.
(2) Every plan, or any modification thereof, which is approved by the Director shall be endorsed to that effect by the Director, and one copy shall be returned to the applicant and the remaining two copies shall be retained by the Director.
6.
(1) No such licence shall be granted unless the Director is satisfied in relation to the premises in respect of which the application for such licence was made that-
(a) the plan referred to in regulation 5 has been approved by
the Director and the premises conform thereto;
(b) the means of ventilation which is provided for the laundry, whether natural or mechanical or partly natural and partly mechanical, is sufficient to safeguard the health in that respect of all persons resorting to or work- ing in the laundry:
(c) the means of lighting which is provided within the
laundry is adequate:
(d) the floor surfaces of every part of the laundry are impervious to liquid and constructed of smooth surfaced non-absorbent material;
(e) the supply of water to the laundry is adequate and derived from a public mains water supply or from a source approved by a health officer;
(A)
the drainage provided for the laundry is adequate, and (g) satisfactory means are provided to prevent the con- tamination of laundered articles by contact with un- laundered articles.
(2) The grant of a licence referred to in regulation 4 shall not be deemed to act as a waiver of any term in any lease or licence under which the premises are held.
7. After the grant or renewal of any such licence, no licensee shall, save with the permission in writing of the Director, cause or permit to be made in respect of the laundry to which the licence relates-
(a) any alteration or addition which would result in a material deviation from the plan thereof approved under regulation 5; or
Application for licence.
Conditions for grant of licence.
Restriction
on alteration of laundry after grant of licence.