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(7) Auy order of a magistrate made under this section shall be a complete authority to the person against whom it is made to remove the water closet or urinal in question.
(8) If the water clost or urinal is uot removed within such time as may be limited by the magistrate it shall be lawful for a magistrate, without prejudice to any penalty to which any person may be liable, to make an order empowering the Board and the Colo- nial Secretary and any person authorised by it or him to enter the premises and to remove the water closet or urinal in question; and all expenses incurred by the Board or the Colonial Secretary in causing such removal shall forth- with be paid by the person against whom the original order of removal was made, or failing him by the owner of the premises in question, without prejudice to any right of such person Or OWBET to recover the amount of such expenses from any other person liable for the
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(9) In this section urinal means a water
Hushed urinal.
10. Section 180 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment by the addition of the following sub-section at the end of Ordinance thereof :-
(5) For the purpose of this section re-crection includes every alteration of a previously existing building in such a manner as to make the resulting build- ing a new building or in such a manner as to make the resulting building or any part thereof an exceptional building.
No. 1 of 1903, s. 180.
Objects and Reasons.
1. This Ordinance amends the Public Health and Build- ings Ordinance, 1903, on three points
() Sanitary Board elections: see sections 5 and 6 of the bill, and paragraphs 1 to 12 of the Objects and Reasons.
(b) Reinforced concrete buildings: see sections 3, 4, 7. 8 and 10 of the bill, and paragraphs 13 to 18 of the Objects and Reasons.
(c) Water closets and urinals: see section 9 of the bill, and paragraphs 19 to 22 of the Objects and
Reasons.
2. The close attention which was directed last year to the procedure at Sanitary Board elections has revealed certain defects in the existing law. This Ordinance at- tempts to remedy some of these defects. Others will be dealt with in new rules to be made under section 9 of the principal Ordinance.
It is
3. One difficulty is that there is no register for one part of the electorate, so that it is necessary, during the hurry of a ballot, to investigate and decide upon various claims to vote based on various gronads. Where there is a register the only question is one of identity. The reason why there is no register for part of the electorate is to be found in the peculiar nature of the qualification. The main basis of the qualification is liability to jury service, and the main body of the electorate consists of persons whose names appear in the current jurors lists. obvious, however, that if persons liable to jury service have a right to vote, persons who are exempt from jury service should also have a right to vote. Accordingly the electorate includes all persons who are by s. 4 of the Jurors Ordinance. 1887, Ordinance No. 6 of 1887, declared to be not liable to serve as jurors, subject only to this, that servants of the Crown are not entitled to form part of the electorate. The result of this is to include in the electorate the twelve classes of persons who are under the Jurors Ordinance exempt from jury service. It is
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