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in reserved accommodation, it is necessary to make transitional pro- vision (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 pre- vailing on the 1st February, 1949.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL:-I move that the Form I in the Third Schedule to the Regulations which appear in the Schedule to the Bill 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".
Sir, 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 reserved for Hong Kong residents when and where such accommodation is available.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL:-Sir. I move that the Sixth Schedule to the Regulations which appear in the Schedule to the Bill be amended by the deletion of the item-
"Hot Plates
500
1000
10
12"
It has been represented that by operation of Clause 7(d) 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 n hotel.
The amendments were agreed to.
Council then resumedl.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL reported that the Hotels Bill, 1919, had passed through Committee with five amendments to the Schedule to the Bill, and moved the Third reading.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a Third time and passed into law.
ADJOURNMENT.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR :—That concludes the day's business. Gentlemen. When is it your pleasure that we should meet again?
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL:-A fortnight's time. Sir.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR :—Council will adjourn until this day fortnight.
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