# Provision Against non-compliance with Notices.
# Right of person to petition Board.
# Seizure of wholesome food.
# Chinese Cemeteries.
...cover, cleanse, disinfect, or purify any premises; to temporarily vacate any premises for the purposes of disinfection or when the said premises are in a condition dangerous to health; to drain, empty, cleanse, fill up, cover, repair, alter or remove any ditch, gutter, ashpit, drain, sewer, privy, urinal, or cesspool, or to provide a sufficient and proper substitute therefor; to fill up, cleanse, or cover any well or divert any drainage from the same; to abstain from any operation which may pollute any stream, water-course, canal, pond or water; to remove any animal or animals, or provide for the wholesome keeping of the same; to carry away any accumulation of matter, solid or liquid, noxious or noisome, which shall be injurious to health; to discontinue discharging waste-waters or other matters into any gutter or side-channel of a public street or road or over the surface of the ground; to discontinue any noxious or noisome work, manufactory, trade, or business; to limit the number of persons who may be accommodated in any premises, or the number of separate apartments into which such premises may be divided, or let to, or used by different persons or families; to prevent the burial of the dead in any place or cemetery; or to do such other works or acts, as are necessary to abate, remedy, or remove any Nuisance ascertained to exist as aforesaid, in such manner and within such time as shall be specified and set forth in the Notice; and if the Board is of opinion that such Nuisance is likely to recur, it may further prohibit the recurrence thereof and issue a Notice as aforesaid for the execution of such constructional works as may be necessary in its opinion to prevent such recurrence.
23. In cases of non-compliance with such Notice it shall be lawful for the Board to authorise its Officers with all proper assistants and workmen from time to time, and forcibly if need be, to enter the premises in respect of which such Notice shall have been issued and to do whatever may be necessary in execution of such Notice for the abatement, remedy, or removal of such Nuisance, or for the prevention of the recurrence thereof.
24. Where by any Notice under this Ordinance the author of any Nuisance shall be required to construct, re-construct, alter, amend, or repair any drain; to provide adequate privy accommodation; to pave any premises; to abstain from any act which may pollute any stream, canal, pond, or other water; to discontinue any work, trade, manufactory or business; to abate overcrowding or to limit the number of separate dwellings or apartments into which premises may be divided or let or used by different persons or families; to provide proper light, subsoil-drainage, or ventilation for such premises; to discontinue the use of any cemetery or place of burial; or to abate, remedy, remove, or prevent the recurrence of any Nuisance whatsoever; and the author aforesaid shall be dissatisfied with such Notice, it shall be lawful for the author aforesaid within the time specified in such Notice for complying therewith, to petition the Board to review such Notice, and the petition shall set forth the reasons why such Notice should be discharged, modified or suspended as the case may be, and thereupon the Board shall enquire into the matters alleged in such petition, and for such purpose the Board shall have power to take evidence on oath, or solemn affirmation, and shall thereupon confirm, modify, suspend, or discharge the same, or extend the time allowed for compliance therewith.
25. Any member or Officer of the Board, duly authorised by the said Board in writing, may, at any time between the hours of six in the morning and six in the evening enter any shop or premises used for the sale or preparation for sale, or for the storage of food, to inspect and examine any food found therein which he shall have reason to believe is intended to be used as human food, and in case any such food appear to such member or Officer to be unfit for such use he may seize the same, and the Board may order it to be destroyed or to be so disposed of as to prevent it from being used as human food.
26. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to select and appoint, and by advertisement in the Hongkong Government Gazette, to notify, sufficient and proper places to be the sites of, and to be used as Cemeteries or places of burial for the Chinese; and from time to time, to alter, vary, and repeal the said Notifications by others, to be advertised in the like manner; and in such Cemeteries or places, it shall be lawful...
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Povision Against non- compliance
with Notices.
Right of persona to
pedition
Beard.
Seizure of
wholesome fout.
Chinese Courteries,
cover, cleanse, disinfect, or purify any premises; to tempora rily vacate any premises for the purposes of disinfection or when the said premises are in a condition dangerous to health; to drain, empty, cleanse, fill up, cover, repair, alter or remove any diteli, gutter, ashpit, drain, sewer, privy, urinal, or cesspool, or to provide a sufficient and proper sub- stitute therefor; to fill up, cleanse, or cover any well or divert any drainage from the same; to abstain from any operation which may pollute any stream, water-course, čamil, pond or water; to remove any animal or animals, or provide for the wholesome keeping of the same; to carry away any accumulation of matter, solid or liquid, noxious or noisome, which shall be injurious to health; to discontinue dis- charging waste-waters or other matters into any gutter or side-channel of a public street or road or over the surface of the ground; to discontine any noxions or noisome work, niamfactory, trade, or business; to limit the number of persons who may be accommodated in any premises, or the number of separate apartments into which such premises may be divided, or let to, or used by different persons or families; to prevent the burial of the dead in any place or cemetery; or to do such other works or acts, as are necessary to abute, remely, or remove any Nuisance ascertained to exist as aforesaid, in such manner and within such time as shall be specified and set forth in the Notice; and if the Board is of opinion that such Nui- sance is likely to recur, it may further prohibit the re- currence thereof and issue a Notice as aforesaid for the execution of such constructional works as may be necessary in its opinion to prevent such recurrence.
23. In cases of gou-compliance with such Notice it shall be lawful for the Board to authorise its Officers with all proper assistants and workmen from time to time, and forcibly if need be, to enter the premises in respect of which such Notice shall have been issued and to do whatever may he necessary in execution of such Notice for the abatement, remedy, or romoval of such Nnisauce, or for the prevention of the recurrence thereof,
24. Where by any Notice under this Ordinance the author of any Nuisance shall be required to construct, ro-construct, alter, amend, or repair any drain; to provide adequate privy accommodation; to pave any premises; to abstain from any act which may pollute any stream, caual, pond, or other water; to discontinue any work, trade, manufactory or business; to abate overcrowding or to limit the number of separate dwellings or apartments into which premises may be divided or let or used by different persons or families; to provide proper light, subsoil-drainage. or ventilation for such premises; to discontinue the use of any cemetery orplace of burial; or to abate, remedy, reinove, or prevent the recurrence of any Nuisance whatsoever; and the author aforesaid shall be dissatisfied with such Notice, it shall be lawful for the author aforesaid within the time specified in such Notice for complying therewith; to petition the Board to review such Notice, and the petition shall set forth the reasons why such Notice should be dis- charged, modified or suspended as the case may be, and thereupon the Board shall enquire into the matters alleged in such petition, and for such purpose the Board shuli have power to take evidence an oath, or solemn affirmation, and shall thereupon confiriu, modify, suspend, or discharge the same, or extend the time allowed for compliance there.
with.
25. Any member or Officer of the Board, duly author- ised by the said Board in writing, may, at any time between the hours of six in the morning and six in the evening enter any shop or premises used for the sale or preparation for sale, or for the storage of food, to inspect and examine any food found therein which he shall have reason to believe is intended to be used as human food. and in case any such food appear to such member or Officer to be unfit for such use he may seize the same, and the Board may order it to be destroyed or to be so disposed of as to prevent it from being used as human food.
26. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Comcil from time to time to select and appoint, and by advertise- Ordinance ment in the Honghong Government Gazette, to notify, sufficient and proper places to be the sites of, and to bo 15 used as Cemeteries or places of burial for the Chinese
and from time to time, to alter, vary, and repeal the said Notifications by others, to be advertised in the like wan- ner; and in such Cemeteries or places, it shall be lawful
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