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Citation.
Application.
Interpretation.
Governor in Council may declare
disease to be communicable.
Fees for use of public latrines.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE. (Chapter 132),
PUBLIC CONVENIENCES (NEW TERRITORIES) REGULATIONS 1971.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 35 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 Public Con- veniences (New Territories] Regulations 1971.
2. These regulations apply only to the New Territories.
3. (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-
“communicable disease" means any form of tinea infection, pediculosis, scabies, smallpox, venereal disease. generalized skin infection or trachoma, or any other disease which the Governor in Council has declared under regulation 4 to be a communicable disease for the purposes of these regulations;
"latrine" includes a water closet, urinal and dry latrine and all other sanitary equipment or installations designed, intended or used for the reception of excretal matter;
"public convenience" means any latrine, bathhouse or washhouse which is provided by the Government for the use of the public;
"washhouse" includes open drying grounds.
4. The Governor in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, declare any disease to be a communicable disease for the purposes of these regulations.
5.
(1) The Governor in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, declare that paragraph (2) shall apply to such latrines provided by the Government for the use of the public as the Governor in Council specifies in the order.
(2) A fee of ten cents shall be payable for the use by any person of any compartment in a latrine to which the Governor in Council has, under paragraph (1), declared that this paragraph applies.
(3) No person shail use any compartment in a latrine in respect of which a fee is payable under paragraph (2) unless he first pays the fee.
6.
No person shall-
(a) by forcible or improper means or for any improper purpose cater any water closet, bathroom or compartment which is occupied by any other person in a public convenience;
(B) wilfully intrude upon the privacy of any other person using any water closet, bathroom or compartment in a public convenience;
(c) wilfully and improperly soil any staircase, floor, passage- way, wall. door, bath, seat or other fitting in a public convenience:
(d) loiter in or obstruct any entrance or exit to or to any part of a public convenience, or any staircase or passage- way in a public convenience;
(e) spit in any public couvenience, except into a receptacle provided for that purpose or into a latrine. channel or drain provided for the carriage of sewage, sullage, waste water or excretal matter:
( leave any litter in or on any compartment, passageway
or staircase in a public convenience;
(g) wilfully damage, mark or deface any part of a public
convenience;
(A) except with the permission of the Director of Urban Services, affix any bill, placard or advertisement to any part of a public convenience; or
(7) fight, quarrel or engage in any noisy or disorderly
behaviour in a public convenience.
7.
No person shall-
(a) use otherwise than for flushing purposes, or take away for use elsewhere. any water contained in or supplied to a flushing system in a public convenience; or
(b) interfere with any such system.
6.
No person shall, without the permission in writing of the Director of Urban Services, remove any contents from a septic tank or cesspool in a public convenience.
9. (1) No male person, other than a child under the age of five years who is accompanied by a female relative or nurse, shall enter or remain in any part of a public convenience which is allocated for the use of female persons.
Conduct in public conveniences.
Protection of Bushing systems.
Removal of contents.
Segregation of the sexes.