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'Workshop' means any premises or place other than a factory wherein or within the close or curtillage or precincts of which any manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for the purpose of gain in or incidental to making any article or part of an article, or altering or repairing, ornamenting or finishing or adapting for sale any article provided that at least twenty persons are employed in manual labour in the said premises or in the close, curtilage or precincts thereof.
Matters with regard to which the Council
has power to make by-laws.
POWER TO MAKE BY-LAWS.
4(1) The Urban Council shall have power to make by-laws with regard to the following matters :---
(i) the periodical entry and inspection of all buildings and curtilages--
(a) for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary condition, cleanliness and good order thereof or any part thereof and of any storeys, cocklofts or partitions therein, or the condition of any drains, latrines, cubicles and kitchens, therein or in connexion therewith;
(b) for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same are
in an overcrowded condition;
(ii) the prevention and abatement of nuisances.
(ii) the promotion of domestic cleanliness.
(iv) the cleansing, limewashing, and proper sanitary maintenance of all premises;
(v) the promotion of lighting and ventilation in public or private buildings;
(vi) the provision and maintenance of proper latrine ac- commodation in private and public buildings.
(vii) the limitation of accommodation in premises and the prevention of overcrowding.
(viii) fixing from time to time the number of persons who may occupy a domestic building or any part thereof, and marking on the exterior or interior of such buildings the number of persons permitted to occupy the same or any part thereof;
(ix) prescribing the conditions under which alone it shal be lawful to live in, occupy or use, or to let or sub-let, or to suffer or permit to be used for habitation or for occupation as a shop, any cellar, vault, underground room, or basement, or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil;
(x) the closing of premises unfit for human habitation and the prohibition of their use as such;
(xi) the control of wells and pools.
(xii) the prevention of the propagation of mosquitoes.
(xii) the provision and proper construction of dust boxes in public or private premises;
(xiv) the cleansing and removal of refuse and al! objectionable matter at stated times from domestic buildings;
(xv) scavenging and the removal and disposal of refuse.
(xvi) the removal and disposal of nightsoil.
(xvii) the crection of public latrines and applications for permission to erect such latrines; and the sanitary mainten- ance of public latrines, urinals, dust-bins, and manure depots.
(xviii) the licensing, regulation and sanitary maintenance of common lodging houses and emigration houses or depots and the sanitary maintenance of eating houses, restaurants, factories, workshops, breweries, distilleries, theatres and places of public instruction, recreation or assembly.
(xix) the control of offensive trades. the prohibition of the continued maintenance of any existing offensive trade without a licence from the Council, the prohibition of the establishment of any offensive trade without a licence from the Council, and the revocation of licences to carry on offensive trades;
(xx) the regulation of public baths, laundries, and wash- houses;
(xxi) the construction, licensing, and proper sanitary maintenance of pigsties in private premises;
(xxii) providing for the regular inspection of all places where animals are kept;
(xxiii) the breaming of vessels, and maintenance of clean- liness in the harbours, the waters of the Colony, and on the foreshores thereof;
(xxiv) the disposal of the dead, the regulation and sanitary maintenance of cemeteries, the fees to be charged in respect of graves and interments, the keeping of such registers as may be necessary, and all other matters connected therewith; also the regulation and sanitary maintenance of mortuaries and the disinfection of dead bodies; and
(xxv) the prescribing of forms.
(2) The Council may in any such by-laws impose fines for any breach thereof not exceeding fifty dollars in each case. If no specific penalty is prescribed by the Council for the breach of any by-law, the maximum penalty for such breach shall be a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
(3) No by-law made by the Council under this Ordinance shall be held to be invalid on the ground that it imposes obligations or confers powers which exceed the obligations imposed or the powers conferred by some section of this Ordinance dealing with the same subject-matter as the by-law in question.
5. All by-laws made by the Urban Council shall be sub- By-laws mitted to the Governor, and shall be subject to the approval subject to of the Legislative Council.
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