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the existing Sanitary Board never had been, and

never could be, other than an advisory body, to

give opportunities to unofficial opinion to air its views on the" Municipal" affairs of the

Colony for the consideration of the Sanitary

Department, at the head of which was a senior

It is clear from the new scheme

Cadet Officer.

that one of the chief results of the replacement

of the Sanitary Board by the new Urban Council

will, be to substitute a Municipal Authority with definite executive and

enacting, administrative powers which will be

carried out through the Sanitary Department.

In these three Ordinances, No.7 of 1935,

provides for the creation of the Urban Council

in place of the Sanitary Board, and also repeals

the various Public health and Buildings Ordin-

ances, the important parts of which will be re-

enacted in one or other of the remaining Ordinances

in the new scheme.

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No.9 of 1935, assembles in one Ordinance

the powers which have hitherto been divided in

relation to the control of common lodging houses

in Hong Kong. The licensing of this class of

property will remain in the hands of the Secretary

of Chinese Affairs, but will depend upon the

officers of the Urban Council being satisfied as

to their sanitary etc. efficiency after inspection.

No.8 of 1935, re-organizes the regula-

tions with regard to the sale of food and drugs

and places in the hands of officers of the Urban

Council full powers of inspection and seizing

and destruction of food etc. unsuitable for con-

sumption.

Subject to the views of the Legal

Advisers