CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927 — Page 59

L.S.

HONG KONG.

No. 6 of 1927.

I assent.

C. CLEMENTI,

Governor.

24th June, 1927.

An Ordinance to amend the Public Health and

Buildings Ordinance, 1903.

[24th June, 1927.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with

the advice and consent of the Legislative Conncil thereof, as follows :—

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health Short title. and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1927.

2. In this Ordinance " principal Ordinance ' the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.

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means Interpreta

tion Ordinance

No. 1 of 1903.

Ordi- Amendment

of Ordinance

3. Paragraph (8) of section 6 of the principal nance is repealed and the following paragraph is substi- tuted therefor :-

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(8) "Building includes every domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, go- down, place of secure stowage, verandab, bal- cony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, columu, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy, kiosk, and sunshade.

4. Paragraph (25) of section 6 of the principal Ordi- nance is repealed and the following paragraph is substi- tuted therefor :-

(25) “Exceptional building includes (1) every pub- lie building, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, every building intended for special uses, every building made wholly or partly of reinforced concrete, every building made wholly or partly of glass, iron or other material not provided for in this Ordinance, and (ii) every part of every building which is an exceptional building within the meaning of the first part of this paragraph.

5. Section 8 (2) of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following sub-sections are substituted therefor :---

(2) Two of the said additional members shall be elected by an electorate composed of the persons whose names shall appear in one or other of the two parts of the register hereinafter referred to.

No. 1 of 1903, s. 6 (8).

Amendment of Ordinance

No. 1 of 1903, s. 6 (25).

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, s. 8 (2).

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