THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 25, 1927. 507
19. The fee payable by the owner of any dog while in the Dogs Quarantine Station shall be 10 cents per day. All fees shall be payable at the end of each month at latest, and in any case before the removal of the dog from the Dogs Quarantine Station. The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may destroy any dog in respect of which the fees due remain unpaid for a period of 15 days after becoming due, without prejudice to the recovery from the owner of all fees and other sums then due, or may sell such dog and out of the proceeds of sale thereof defray the amount of such fees. No compensation shall be payable to the owner of any dog so destroyed or sold.
20. Every dog while in the Dogs Quarantine Station shall be at the risk of the owner and no liability shall attach to the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon or to any other person in respect of such dog.
21. No dog shall be allowed to go abroad in the public thoroughfares or elsewhere unless it is either muzzled or on the lead, and any dog found abroad in the public thoroughfares or elsewhere which is neither muzzled nor on the lead may be captured and detained, or may be shot or otherwise destroyed, by any police officer or by any person authorized by the Captain Superintendent of Police: Provided that this regu- lation shall not apply to the New Territories (other than New Kowloon).
22. Except with the permission in writing of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon no dog shall be removed from or landed on the Island of Hong Kong.
23. Except with the permission in writing of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon no dog shall be brought from the New Territories (other than New Kowloon) into any other part of the Colony.
24. No dog which is kept on board a vessel of any description in the waters of the Colony shall be landed or be allowed to go ashore unless the permission in writing of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon to the landing or going ashore of such dog shall have been first obtained:
25. No dog shall be landed on Stonecutters Island.
26. The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon shall have absolute discretion to refuse any permit or permission which he is authorized by these regulations to issue or give.
27. It shall be lawful for the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon to attach any conditions whatsoever to any permit or permission issued or given by him under these regulations, and such conditions shall be duly observed and complied with by the grantee.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
24th November, 1927.
D. W. TRATMAN,
Clerk of Councils,
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. 695.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the KING, to the following Ordi- nance passed by the Legislative Council : ---
Ordinance No. 21 of 1927.--An Ordinance to make provision for regulating the keeping of dogs and for the prevention of the importation and spread of rabies.
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