CO129-616-6 Hotels Ordinance- 1949 21-2-1949 - 21-2-1949 — Page 87

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to make provision for the control of accommodation

provided by and charges made by hotels.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice. and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:

1949.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hotels Ordinance, Short title.

2.

In this Ordinance-

"charge" includes any valuable consideration and any promise to do any act or perform any service passing to or to pass from or made or to be made by the person upon whom the charge is levied or attempted to be imposed;

"contravene" includes a failure to comply;

"hotel" includes a boarding house and every place where any person is harboured or lodged for any kind of rent, hire or reward but shall not include any place where no service other than the provision of accommodation and furniture is rendered upon the premises occupied by the person so harboured or lodged;

Interpreta- tion.

"manager" means, in the case of any person registered as the manager of a hotel pursuant to regulations made under this Ordinance or under the Boarding House Ordinance, 1917, such Ordinance person, and if there is no such person, or in the absence of any No. 27 of such person, then the person who is in fact in control whether on 1917. his own account or for any other person of the management of

the hotel;

"Quartering Authority" means such person as the Governor has appointed or from time to time shall appoint to be or act as Quartering Authority;

"service" includes provision of accommodation or of any appliance or facility;

"specified" means specified by regulations made under this Ordinance.

3. The Governor may by notification in the Gazette appoint Appointment any person to be the Quartering Authority for the purpose of this of Ordinance.

Quartering Authority.

Quartering

4. (1) The Quartering Authority may make regulations to- The

(a) require the manager of any hotel to reserve a Authority specified portion of its total accommodation (other than its public may make rooms) or a portion to be allocated in such manner as the regula- regulations tions may provide or any particular accommodation, for specified to control uses, including the use by particular persons or classes of persons; modation

and charges for hotel

services.

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