CO129-522-11 Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance 1930 21-12-1929 - 20-10-1930 — Page 14

Enclosure No.2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hong Kong..21.st. December 192 9.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No......30.

..........of 192 9.

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I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an

Ordinance to amend further the Public Health and Buildings

Ordinance, 1903, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is

one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.

Section 2 of this Ordinance amends section 8 of the

principal Ordinance so as to make the Director of Medical

and Sanitary Services a member of the Sanitary Board in place

of the Medical Officer of Health. This change has been

made in order that the Director of Medical and Sanitary

Services may have first-hand experience of the working

of the Sanitary Board to assist him in considering the general question of public health administration in the

Colony.

3. The control of eating-houses has been transferred from

the Superintendent of Imports and Exports to the Sanitary

Board. Section 4 of Ordinance No. 19 of 1928 gave the

Sanitary Board power to make regulations with regard to

eating-houses, but it failed to give the Sanitary Board