Treable.
Title
Dediumess
repented.
Deduktione
Author of a
Nuls co.
Board.
Building.
Conumen Lodging-
Bonsa
Investic Building.
Drug
و اندازه گر
1-wide.
Householder.
Iniurious in
caith
Enclosure 1.
A BILL
ENTITLED
1st Reading, 6th May, 1887.
2nd Reading,
Committee,
3rd Reading,
An Ordinance for amending the Laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong.
WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for preserving and promoting the Public Health in this Colony: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.
2. The several Ordinances and parts of Ordinances mentioned in schedule 4 to this Ordinance appended, are hereby repealed, provided always that all Rules and Regulations made in virtue of any of the said Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and in force at the date of the passing of this Ordinance shall remain in operation until they shall have been amended or repealed.
3. In this Ordinance and in any Bye-Laws made thereunder, the following words and expressions shall have or shall include the meanings hereinafter respectively set against them unless such meanings be repugnant to or inconsistent with the context.
1. Author of a Nuisance.--The person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues, or if such person cannot be found or ascertained the Owner or the Occupier of the premises.
2. Board.--The Sanitary Board.
3. Building.--Any building, house, dwelling-house, tenement-house, common lodging-house, verandah, cook-house, privy, gallery, balcony, chimney, bridge, out-house, stable, matshed, warehouse, manufactory, shop, work-room, distillery, and place of secure stowage.
4. Common Lodging-House--
(a) any house or part thereof where persons are housed--not being members of the same family--at an amount not exceeding five cents a day or one dollar a month for each person;
(b) any house in which employers of labour lodge their employés other than domestic servants, as part of the remuneration given for their services.
5. Domestic Building.--Any human habitation, or building where persons pass the night.
6. Drug.--Any medicine for internal or external use.
7. Food.--Any article used for food or drink other than drugs or water.
8. Hill-side.--The face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining-wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining-wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building.
9. Householder.--The actual tenant or occupier of the whole of any building or in cases where there shall be no such person, then the immediate landlord of the whole of such building and in the case of Corporations, Companies and Associations the Secretary or Manager thereof shall be deemed the Householder and shall be liable under this Ordinance.
10. Injurious to health.--Anything which, in the opinion of the Board, is injurious to health.
C. O.
12781
RECP
[4.5.87.]
REGE 29 JUN 87
381
Treable.
Title
Dediumess
repented.
Deduktione
Author of a
Nuls co.
Board.
Building.
Conumen Lodging-
Bonsa
Investic Building.
Drug
و اندازه گر
1-wide.
Householder.
Iniurious in
caith
Enclosure 1.
A BILL
ENTITLED
1st Reading, 6th May, 1887.
2nd Reading,
Committee,
3rd Reading,
An Ordinance for amending the Laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong.
WH
HEREAS it is expedient to make provision for pre- serving and promoting the Public Health in this Colony: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows : ---
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Public Health Ordinunér, 1887.
2. The several Ordinances and parts of Ordinances mentioned in schedule 4 to this Ordinance appended, are hereby repealed, provided always that all Rules and Regn- lations made in virtue of any of the said Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and in force at the date of the passing of this Ordinance shall remain in operation until they shall have been amended or repeuled.
3. In this Ordinance and in any Bye-Laws made there- under, the following words and expressions shall have or shall include the toeanings hereinafter respectively set against them unless such meanings be repagoant to or inconsistent with the context.
1. Author of a Nuisance.--The person by whose act, default, permission, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues, or if such person cannot be found or ascertained the Owner or the Occupier of the premises.
2. Bourd.-The Sanitary Board.
3. Building-Buy building, house, dwelling-house, tenement-house, common lodging-house, veran- duh, cook-house, privy, gallery,balcony, chimney, bridge, out-house, stable matshed, ware-house, manufactory, shop, work-room, distillery, and place of secure stowage.
A Common Lodging-House-
(.) any house or part thereof where persons are housed-not being members of the same family-at an amount not exceeding five cents a day or one dollar a month for each person;
(b) any house in which employers of labour lodge their employés other than domestic servants, as part of the remuneration given for their services.
5. Domestic Building.--Any human habitation, or
building where persous pass the night.
6. Drug. Any medicine for internal or external use. 7. Food.-Any article used for food or drink other
than drugs or water.
8. Hill-side. The face of the natural lill, or the face
of any scarp or retaining-wall built to support the sume, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining-wali, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building.
9. Householder. The actual tenant or occupier of the whole of any building or in cases where there shall be no such person, then the immediate landlord of the whole of such building and in the case of Corporations, Companies and Associa- tions the Secretary or Manager thereof shall be deemed the Householder and shall be liable under this Ordinance.
10. Injurious to health. Anything which, in the opinion of the Board, is injurious to health.
C. O.
12781
RECP
[4.5.87.]
REGE 29 JUN 87)
381
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