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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,

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27th March 2007.

Report on Ordinance 13.

of 1901.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled

An Ordinance to consolidate and

amond the laws relating to Public Stealth in the Colony of Hongthong

and Lam of opinion that the Orilinance is one which is not contrary to

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The main object of this Ordinance is to consolidate the provisions of the various enactments relating to Public Health set forth in schedule A, so far as they are still operative and in force. *

In substituting a single Ordinance for the fifteen it re- peals, it has been found necessary to make some slight alterations in the wording of some of the enactments con- solidated, so as to preserve uniformity of language, and prevent unduo repetition. Nearly the whole of these amendments are purely formal, and the substance of the law remains, almost entirely, unchanged.

In section 23, however, a new sub-scetion (9) has been inserted, dealing with smoke nuisances. This sub-section follows the law in force in England as set forth in section 24 (b) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. For the present, owing to opposition, the further provisions contained in section 24 (a) of the London Act of 1891, have been omitted. It is desirable at least to make a be ginning in dealing with this subject which in this Colony is a diflienlt one.

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