9. Householder. --For the purposes of this Ordinance, the actual tenant or occupier of any building, or in cases where there shall be no such person, then the immediate landlord 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. Keeper of a Common Lodging-House--Any person licensed to keep a Common Lodging-House.
11. New Building.--Any structure begun after the commencement of this Ordinance or of which the enclosing walls have not been carried higher than the footings, or such old buildings as shall for the purposes of reconstruction be taken down to an extent exceeding one half, such half to be estimated in cubic feet.
12. Occupier--The person in actual occupation of any premises.
13. Owner--Any house-owner, or the person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint-tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person, or, where the owner cannot be found or ascertained, the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an Owner.
14. Person (and words applied in this Ordinance to any individual).--Corporations, Companies, and Associations.
15. Premises.--Any land, building, or structure of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, paddy-field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered, or enclosed, cess-pool or foreshore, also any vessel or boat lying within the waters of the Colony.
16. Secretary.--The Secretary to the Sanitary Board duly appointed under the provisions of Section 6 of this Ordinance.
17. Tenant.--Any person who leases direct from any Householder the whole of any floor or floors of any building or tenement-house.
18. Tenement-House.--Any domestic building let to and inhabited by more than one occupier or family, as tenants of a common landlord, or as sub-tenants of a tenant of any portion of such domestic building.
19. Vessel.--Any steam or sailing ship, launch, junk, lighter, sampan, or boat.
4. The Board shall consist of the Surveyor General, the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Colonial Surgeon, and not more than six additional members, four of whom (two being Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor, and two elected by such rate-payers as are included in the Special and Common Jury Lists, and also by such rate-payers as are exempted from serving on juries on account of their professional avocations. Non-official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.
6. The mode of election, the proceedings incident thereto, and all other matters relating to the election of the said members, by the said rate-payers, shall be governed by Rules made by the Governor in Council, who may, from time to time, add to, vary, or revoke, any of the said Rules.
6. The Governor shall appoint the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of the Board, and the names of all members appointed to the Board shall be forthwith notified in the Government Gazette, and any number of the Government Gazette, containing a notice of any such appointments shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof, before any Magistrate or Court of Law.
7. If any member of the Board be at any time prevented by absence or other cause from acting for more than six months, the Governor may appoint, or, if the member has been elected, the electors may nominate some other person to replace such member, until he shall be able to resume his functions.
8. The Board shall be held to be legally constituted, notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by death, absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.
9. The Governor may appoint such officers as he shall see fit to be Sanitary Superintendent, Sanitary Surveyors, Inspectors of Nuisances, and such other servants as the Board may from time to time recommend, and there shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury to such officers, such salaries and allowances as the Governor, with the consent of the Legislative Council, may from time to time determine.
10. The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The President may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed by three members of the Board, summon a meeting thereof.
11. Any four members shall be a quorum for the despatch of business, and at every meeting, the President or Vice-President shall preside, or, in their absence, the members present shall appoint a Chairman. The President or Vice-President or in their absence the Chairman so appointed, shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.
12. The Board may from time to time make Standing Orders for regulating the mode and order of procedure at its meetings, for the appointment of Select Committees, for the conduct of its business between such meetings, and for the guidance of its Officers, and may from time to time alter and amend such Standing Orders.
13. The Board shall have power to make, and when made, to alter, amend, or revoke Bye-Laws with regard to the following matters:-
1. The proper construction, trapping, ventilating, and maintenance of private house-drains in the City of Victoria, and the villages, and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon,
2. The provision and proper construction of dust boxes in private premises.
3. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order to arrest damp in dwelling-houses.
4. The cleansing, lime-whiting, and proper sanitary maintenance of all premises in the Colony.
5. The sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals, dust-bins, and manure-depôts.
6. Surface scavenging, the removal and disposal of night soil and of other refuse.
7. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation and the prohibition of their use as such.
8. The protection of the public water supply from pollution.
9. The prevention of the manufacture or sale of unsound, adulterated, or unwholesome food.
10. The regulation of bakehouses, dairies, aerated water manufactories, and food preserving establishments.
11. The prohibition of the establishment within certain limits, and the control of any noxious or offensive trade, business, or manufacture.
12. The sanitary maintenance of Common Lodging-Houses, opium smoking divans, factories, and places of public instruction, recreation, or assembly.
13. The prevention of overcrowding in premises, either in respect of human beings or the lower animals.
14. The licensing and regulation of all depôts and pens for cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.
15. The sanitary maintenance of markets and slaughter-houses.
16. The construction, licensing, and proper sanitary maintenance of pig-sties in private premises.
17. The cleansing of vessels, and the maintenance of cleanliness in the harbour of Victoria, the waters of the Colony, and the foreshores thereof.
18. The disposal of the dead, the disinfection of dead bodies, and the sanitary maintenance of mortuaries and cemeteries.
19. The compulsory vacating of infected premises, and the disinfection and purification of the same.
20. The disinfection and purification of all infected vessels and public vehicles.
21. The mitigation or prevention of epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease among animals.
9. Householder. --For the parposes of this Ordinance, the actual tenant or occupier of any building, or in cases where there shall be no such person, then the immediate landlord 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 lable under this Ordinance.
10 Keeper of a Common Lodging-House-Any person licensed to keep a Common Lodging-House. 11. New Building.--Any structure begun after the commencement of this Ordinance or of which the enclosing walls have not been carried higher than the footings, or such oid buildings as shall for the purposes of reconstruction be taken down to an extent exceeding one half, such half to be ensured in cubic feet.
12. Occupier→The person in actual occupation of any
premises.
13. Owner-Any house-owner, or the person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint-tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of auy other person, or, where the owner caunot be found or ascertained, the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an Owner.
14. Person (and words applied in this Ordinance to any individual).-Corporations, Companies. and Associations.
15. Premises. Any landt, Imilding, or structure of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream. aullah, pond, pool, paddy-field, mareh, drain. ditch, or place open, covered, or enclosed, cess- pool or foreshore, also any vessel or boat lying within the waters of the Colony.
16. Secretary. The Secretary to the Sanitary Board duly appointed under the provisions of Section G of this Ordinance.
17. Tenant.Any person who leases direct from any
Householder the whole of any floor or floors of any building or tenement-house.
18. Tenement-House. Any domestic building let to and inhabited by more than one occupier or family, as tenants of a common landlord, or as sub-tenants of a tenant of any portion of such domestic building.
19. Fessel-Any steam or sailing ship, launch, junk,
lighter, sampan, or boat.
4. The Board shall consist of the Surveyor General, the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Colonial Surgeon, and not more than six addi- tional members, four of whom, (two being Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor, and two elected by such rate-payers as are included in the Special and Common Jury Lists, and also by such rate-payers as are exempted from serving on juries on account of their professional avocations. Non-official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.
6. The mode of election, the proceedings incident thereto, and all other matters relating to the election of the said members, by the said rate-payers, shall be governed by Rules made by the Governor in Council, who may, from time to time, add to, vary, or revoke, any of the said Rules. 6. The Governor shall appoint the President, Vice- President, and Secretary of the Board, and the names of all members appointed to the Board shall be forthwith notified in the Government Gazette, and any number of the Government Gazette, containing a notice of any such ap pointments shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof, before any Magistrate or Court of Law.
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7. If any member of the Board be at any time pre- Sabaliunte vented by absence or other cause from acting for more than six months, the Governor, may appoint, or, if the member has been elected, the electors may nominate some other person to replace such member, until he shall be able to resume his fonctions.
8. The Board shall be held to be legally constituted, notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by death, absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.
9. The Governor may appoint such officers as he shall see fit to be Sanitary Superintendent, Sanitary Surveyors, Inspectors of Nuisances, and such other servants as the Board may from time to time recommend, and there shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury to such officers, such sularies and allowances as the Governor, with the consent of the Legislative Council, may from time to time determine.
10. The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The President may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed by three members of the Board, summon a meeting
thereof.
11. Any four members shall be a quorum for the des- patch of business, and at every meeting, the President or Vice-President shall preside, or, in their absence, the mem- bers present shall appoint a Chairman. The President or Vice-President or in their absence the Chairman 80 appointed, shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.
12. The Board way from time to time make Standing Orders for regulating the mode and order of procedure at its meetings, for the appointment of Select Committees, for the conduct of its business between such meetings, and for the guidance of its Officers, and may from time to time alter and amend such Standing Orders.
13. The Board shall have power to make, and when made, to alter, amend, or revoke Bye-Laws with regard to the following matters:-
1. The proper construction, trapping, ventilating, and maintenance of private house-drains in the City of Victoria, and the villages, and rural district's of Hongkong and Kowloon,
2. The provision and proper construction of dust
boxes in private premises.
3. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order
to arrest damp in dwelling-houses.
4. The cleansing, lime-whiting, and proper sanitary
maintenance of all premises in the Colony.
5. The sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals,
dust-bins, and manure-depôts.
6. Surface scavenging, the removal and disposal of
night soil and of other refuse.
7. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation
and the prohibition of their use as such.
8. The protection of the public water supply from
pollution.
9. The prevention of the manufacture or sale of un-
sound, adulterated, or unwholesome food.
10. The regulation of bakehouses, dairies, ærated water manufactories, and food preserving establish-
ments.
11. The prohibition of the establishment within certain limits, and the control of any noxious or offensive trade, business, or manufacture.
12. The sanitary maintenance of Common Lodging- Houses, opium smoking divans, factories, and places of public instruction, recreation, or a5- sembly.
13. The prevention of overcrowding in premises, either in respect of human beings or the lower animals. 14. The licensing and regulation of all depôts and pens
for cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.
15. The sanitary maintenance of markets and slaughter-
houses.
16. The construction, licensing, and proper sanitary maintenance of pig-sties in private premises.
17. The breaming of vessels, and the maintenance of cleanliness in the harbour of Victoria, the waters of the Colony, and the foreshores thereof.
18. The disposal of the dead, the disinfection of dead bodies, and the sanitary maintenance of mortuaries and cemeteries.
19. The compulsory vacating of infected premises, and the disinfection and purification of the same.
20. The disinfection and purification of all infected
vessels and public vehicles.
21. The mitigation or prevention of epidemic, endemic,
er contagious disease among animals,
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