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(4) any alteration to any building in contravention of the Buildings Ordinance such as might render escape in the event of fire or other calamity materially more difficult;
(b) the overcrowding of any place of public cotertainment or public assembly such as might render escape in the event of fire or other calamity materially more difficult;
(c) any removal from any building of any fire service installation or equipment which was provided in such building in accordance with plans certified by the Director of Fire Services for the purposes of section 16 of the Buildings Ordinance; །
(d) the presence in any building of any fire service installation or equipment which from lack of proper maintenance or for any other reason is not in efficient working order;
(e) inadequate means of egress from any premises in a building to street level outside the building: any other matter or circumstance which materially increases the likelihood of fire or other calamity or the danger to life or property that would result from the outbreak of fire or the occurrence of any other calamity, or which would materially hamper the Fire Services Department in the discharge of its duties in the event of fire or other calamity:
"tire service installation or equipment" means any installation or equipment manufactured, used or designed to be used for the purposes of-- (a) extinguishing, attacking, preventing or limiting
a fire:
(6) giving warning of a fire:
(c) providing access to any premises for the pur- pose of extinguishing, attacking, preventing or limiting a fire;"; and
(b) by deleting the definition of "ventilating system" and
substituting the following-
"ventilating system" means a system which is either mechanical or electrical, or both, for introducing or
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exhausting air, and also means an air-conditioning plant which contains a device for reducing or in- creasing the temperature of the air in any building. or any part thereof, below or above the temperature of the external air;”.
3. Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended in Amendment subsection (1) by-
(a) substituting a semicolon for the full stop at the end of
paragraph (); and
(b) inserting, after paragraph . the following new
paragraph-
"(g) the emission of air either above or below the temperature of the external air, or the discharge of water, whether waste or otherwise, from the ventilating system in any premises in such a manner as to be a nuisance.".
of section 12.
4. Section 32 of the principal Ordinance is amended in Amendment subsection (1) by deleting "thereof in the first place where it of section occurs and substituting the following-
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"of the premises in question".
32.
Section 93 of the principal Ordinance is amended by Amendment
of section inserting, after subsection (2), the following now subsections-
93.
"(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of any enactment under which such premises are licensed, the licensing authority may revoke the licence issued or granted by it in respect of any scheduled premises, either temporarily or permanently, in the following cases—
(a) in the event of any failure to comply with the requirements of a notice given in respect of such premises under the provisions of subsection (1) or (2) within six months from the date thereof or within such further period as the Authority may allow; (b) in the event of any failure to comply with any conditions imposed under the provisions of section 101.
(4) Any licensee or owner of any scheduled premises who fails to comply with the requirements of a notice under subsection (1) or (2) within six months from the date thereof,