No. 922.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1922. (EMERGENCY REGULATIONS).
WHEREAS by section 2 of Ordinance No. 5 of 1922 intituled the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, it is provided among other things that, on any occasion which the Governor in Council may consider to be an occasion of emergency or public danger, he may make any regulations whatsoever which he may consider desirable in the public interest:
AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council considers that such an occasion of emergency or public danger continues to exist:
NOW THEREFORE, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor in Council makes the following regulation, which shall be added as regulation 38 to the regulations made under the said section 2 on the 28th September, 1938, and published in the Gazette of the 7th October, 1938, as Government Notification 775 and subsequently amended:--
METERED WATER CONSUMPTION.
38. Where until the date of this regulation any premises. have been supplied with water, the metered consumption or excess consumption of which has been payable by an owner or landlord and recovered, in whole or in part, from his tenants by way of rent, such owner or landlord shall, not- withstanding any notices he may have given to his tenants. or the water authority, continue to be deemed the consumer and shall be liable for payment of any moneys due in respect of such consumption, or excess consumption, until he has made arrangements satisfactory to the water authority for the continued supply of water to any persons lawfully occupying such premises, and, until such arrangements are made, the Water Authority may continue the metered supply of water to the said premises.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
30th November, 1938.
T. MEGARRY,
Clerk of Councils.
(Extract from the Hong Kong Government Gazette No. 57 of the 2nd December, 1938.)
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