CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929 — Page 23

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for water supplied by meter, because it was intended to

introduce a new charge for excess consumption which would have exceeded that maximum. As explained above, the

For

proposed regulations will not now be made, at least for the present. In the second place it gives the Governor in Council a wide power to make regulations for the purposes of controlling supplies from the public fountains, and the persons who resort to the public fountains. example, in a time of shortage such as the present, it might be desirable to assign particular public fountains to particular blocks of buildings and to exclude persons from

It might also be desirable to introduce

rationing. It might also be desirable to

outside areas.

some system of

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give powers to police officers and others who might be

stationed at public fountains.

Such a scheme was in fact

worked out, and regulations to enable

it to be carried out

were made under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922,

on the 18th July, as the matter then seemed to be very

urgent.

9.

Section 6 to 12, both inclusive, of this Ordinance

amend the various penalties under the principal Ordinance.

Some of the penalties in the principal Ordinance appeared to be too small. For example, the maximum penalty for wilful waste of water was only $25. In the second place,

the maximum penalties seemed to be unnecessarily The amending sections of this Ordinance make penalty in every case $250, which is now the standard

maximum for summary offences. daily penalty is provided in the principal Ordinance this

varied.

the maximum

In the two cases where a

Ordinance makes the maximum $25 a day.

10.

Section 13 of this Ordinance gives power to make the

proposed temporary abolition of the "free allowance" apply to the current quarter, and it makes it clear that what is