CO129-559-4 Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1936 4-2-1936 - 4-2-1936 — Page 6

L. S.

HONG

KONG.

No. 7 of 1936.

I assent.

A. CALDECOTT,

Governor.

31st January, 1936.

An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to Quarantine and the Prevention of Disease among human beings.

[31st January, 1936.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Quarantine and Short title. Prevention of Disease Ordinance, 1936.

Part I.

GENERAL.

Interpretation.

2. (1) In this Ordinance :-----

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Aerodrome means a place set apart for the arrival Aerodrome and departure of aircraft and includes a place for the alighting of hydroplanes (and similar craft) on water. Whatever relates in this Ordinance to aerodromes is to be understood to apply mutatis mutandis to places for the alighting of hydroplanes (and similar craft) on water.

"Aircraft includes any machine which can derive sup- Aircraft. port in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air and is intended for aerial navigation.

aerodrome.

"Authorised aerodrome means any aerodrome declared Authorised by the Governor in Council by notification in the Gazette to be an authorised aerodrome on which aircraft may make their first landing on entering the Colony and which they may make their place of departure on leaving the Colony.

"Building" includes any house, hut, shed or roofed Building. enclosure, whether needed for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing stage or bridge.

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