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PUBLIC HEALTH (SANITATION) ORDINANCE, 1935.

(No. 15 of 1935),

CONSERVANCY (AMENDMENT) By-Laws, 1959.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance. 1935. the Urban Council has made the following by-laws

commence-

1. These by-laws may be cited as the Conservancy (Amendment) Citation and By-laws. 1959, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of April. ment. 1959.

2. Paragraph (4) of by-law 2 of the by-laws contained in Amendment Schedule A to the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, under af by-law 2. the heading "Conservancy", set forth on pages 188 to 191 of the (13 of 1935). annual volume of the Ordinances of Hong Kong for the year 1935,

is amended by the deletion of sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) and the sub- stitution therefor of the following-

"(a) (i) In respect of each floor, other than a Roor which is used for non domestic purposes and on which no pans for the reception of excretal matter are provided, of ali premises situated in a district for which, in accord- ance with paragraph (1), the Urban Council provides a departmental service for the removal of excretal matter, being premises which are not provided with waterclosets, or, if such service is provided for a separate part of any floor of any such premises, in respect of any such part. there shall be paid to the Government a fee of sixteen dollars per quarter,

(ii) The fees for the ensuing two quarters shall be payable in advance on or before the first day of April and the first day of October in every year or within one month from the latest date (being a date not earlier than the said first day of April or the said first day of October, as the case may be) for payment stipulated in a demand note issued in respect thereof.

(iii) Where, in respect of any premises, the provision of such departmental service is commenced during the period between the second day of April and the 30th day of September (both days inclusive) or between the second day of October and the 31st day of March (both days inclusive), the provision of such service shall, for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, be deemed to have