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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1944.
(No. 30 of 1960).
VENTILATION BY-LAWS, 1961.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 88 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Urban Council has made the following by-laws-
1. These by-laws may be cited as the Ventilation By-laws, 1951.
These by-laws apply to the urban areas only.
Application,
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Interpret tion.
3. In these by-laws, save where the context otherwise requires- "building" means—
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(a) any building, or any part of any building, which is used for
human habitation:
(b) any workplace; and
(c) any building, or any part of any building, in which there is carried on any business for the time being specified in the Schedule:
"Council" means the Urban Council;
**workplace” does not include a vessel.
4.
Save with the permission in writing of the Council, uo person to ventilation shall erect or place, or cause to be erected or placed, in any open spac or light.
any obstacle to the access of ventilation or light to any building. any part of any building.
Obstruction to windows,
Cubicles and partiliens.
Cubicles and
partitions in kitchens.
5. No person shall, by the erection of any structure or fixing whatsoever or by the placing of any household goods or merchandise. obstruct any window of any building or any part of any building.
6. No person shall erect or maintain, or cause to be erected maintained, any partition which adjoins any cubicle or other partitioned space in any building, or any part of any building, used for bu habitation and which is so constructed that any part thereof reache to within three feet of the ceiling, or two inches of the floor, of the room, compartment or veranda within which it is constructed or is any event, exceeds six feet in height.
7. No person shall erect or maintain, or cause to be erected of maintained, any cubicle or partition in any kitchen.
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4. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of by-law Offences and
penalties. 4, 5, 6 or 7 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprison- ment for fourteen days and, where the offence is a continuing offence, shall be liable in addition to a fine of ten dollars for each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the offence has copdinued.
9. The Council may by order amend, or add any business to or Amendment delete any business from, the Schedule.
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10. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment Name in relating to the prosecution of criminal offences and without prejudice proceedings to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution for offences of such offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions may be brought of these by-laws may be brought in the name of the Council.
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Made by the Urban Council this 6th day of June, 1961.
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13 Whithery
Secretary.
Approved by the Legislative Council this 21st day of June, 1961.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
21st June, 1961.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the by-laws, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
The purpose of these by-laws is to re-enact, with amendment and in the form of by-laws, the substance of sections 32(1), 35 and 36(6), (7), (8) and (9) of the repealed Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, which dealt with the Prevention of obstruction to light and ventilation in tenement buildings. The provisions of these by-laws, in conjunction with the powers contained in sec tions 12 and 127 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, in relation to Guisances, are considered to be as much as can be achieved in the Colony in the prevailing circumstances.
(Secretariat GR5/3231/60)
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