CO129-616-6 Hotels Ordinance- 1949 21-2-1949 - 21-2-1949 — Page 102

confine the application of prescribed rates to Hong Kong residents

accommodated in reserved accommodation, it is necessary to make

transitional provision (controlling rates and charges) applicable to

Hong Kong residents not so accommodated, The proposed regulation

16 will require that in such cases rates and charges payable shall

not exceed those prevailing on the 1st February, 1949.

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Form I in the Third Schedule to the Regulations which

appear in the Schedule to the pill to be amended by the deletion

of the word "entitled" appearing in the fourth line of the Form and

by the substitution therefor of the word "eligible".

Explanation

The amendment will enable the declaration to express

more clearly the purpose and intention of the declaration of the

Quartering Authority, i.e. that a person is a Hong Kong resident

and as such is a person qualified to be accommodated in accommodation

roserved for Hong Kong residents when and where such accommodation

is available.

5.

The Sixth Schedule to the Regulations which appear in the Schedule to the Bill to be amended by the deletion of the item

"Hot Plates

500 1000

Explanation

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It has been represented that by operation of Clause 7(a) of the Bill (upon enactment) a hotel management will be under obligation (unless and until excused by a Magistrate upon prosecution being brought) to supply a Hong Kong resident with electricity for a "hot plate". It has been represented that any such obligation should not be imposed upon hotel managements since to do so would make it impossible to prevent or curtail the practice of cooking in private rooms which entails risk of fire and causes

inconvenience to other users of a hotel.

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