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ANNEX

PRESENT MANDATORY AND PERMISSIBLE FUNCTIONS OF THE URBAN COUNCIL

Authority

Present Mandatory Functions

Resettlement

Ordinance (Cap. 304) Pt. IV & V

PUBLIC HOUSING

Resettlement

Competent authority for the management of resettlement areas and estates and resettlement factory areas in the urban area.

ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH (including hygiene and sanitation)

P.H. & U.S. Ordinance (Cap. 132) Sec. 56

Control and Licensing

Restaurants/light refreshment restaurants/food factories/cooked food stalls/frozen confections/ milk/bakeries/fresh provision shops/ Siu Mei and Lo Mei shops.

Sec. 35, 49, 40, Commercial bathhouses, offen-

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Sec. 41

Sec. 88

sive trades (including the declara- tion 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 protection of health.

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Present Permissible Functions