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CONFIDENTIAL

ANNEX 'C' TO XCC(71)20

Present Mandatory & Permissible Functions of the Urban Council & Changes Recommended

by the Government

Authority

Present Mandatory

Functions

Present Permissible Functions

PUBLIC HOUSING

Resettle-o ment Ord. (Cap 304)

Pt IV & V

P.H.&U.S. Ord.

(Cap 132) Sec 56

P

Sec

35

49

40

42

41

Sec 88

· " ~ 55

Resettlement

Competent authority for the management of resettlement areas and estates and

resettlement factory areas in the urban area.

ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH (including hygiene & sanitation)

Control & Licensing Restaurants/light refreshment restaurants/ food factories/cooked food stalls/frozen con- fections/milk/bakeries/ fresh provision shops/ Siu Mei & Lo Mei shops

Commercial bathhouses, offensive trades (in- cluding the declaration of such trades), laundries, swimming pools (other than public pools and private pools not open to the public, i.e. not a club or association pool) Wash-houses (no licence

required)

Labourers' lines

Basements

Control of use for human habitation

Tenements, hotels and

boarding houses

Overcrowding and pro-

tection of health

Control of food

Colouring matter in food Dried milk

Food adulteration

(metallic contamination) Food (composition &

labelling)

Mineral oil in food

Preservatives in food

1

1

CONFIDENTIAL

Changes Recommended by Government

No change at present.

Expand to include the control & licensing of barber shops, liquor licensing, billiard saloons, cinemas (Police to retain power to license live shows), bowling alleys, skating rinks, table tennis saloons.

No change

No change

No change

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