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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 28, 1909.

(2.) Sub-section (2) of section 153 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and 'the following sub-section shall be substituted for and read in lieu thereof :-

(2.) No cubicle shall be constructed maintained or used in any room of any domestic building erected on any site which on the third day of July 1908 was either vacant or occupied by a domestic building of the European type or by any non-domestic building; and in the case of any domestic building erected as a tenement house for Chinese tenants on any such site as aforesaid the Building Authority shall (unless such building is on the reclama- tion formed under the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889, and is not more than 100 feet deep) require the provision of such windows as shall admit of the sub-division of every storey above the ground storey into rooms of a suitable arca."

8. The following sub-section is hereby added to sectiou Amends 222 of the Principal Ordinance and shall be read at the section 222 end thereof :---

** (8.) In the event of a notice in writing having been given to the Building Authority and plans and drawings having been subinitted to him as required by sub-section (1) of this sertion the Building Authority may refuse to receive any further notice or any further plans or drawings in respeer of the building operations or work to which the former notice and plans and drawings relate until he has received from the person by whom, or on whose behalf, the former notice plans and drawings were given or submitted or from his duly authorised agent revocation in writing of the former notice plans and drawings."

9. Section 235 of the Prinepial Ordinance is hereby re- pealed and the following shall be substituted for and read in lieu thereof :—

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"235. Any notice, summous or order given, issued or Method of

made under the provisions hereinbefore con- service of tained in this part of this Ordinance may be notice, sum- served upon the person affected by the docu- order. ment to be served, either personally or by leaving the same with any occupier of the premises to which such document relates, or by leaving the same with some adult inmate at the usual or last known place of business or residence of the person to be served, or, if there is no occupier of the premises to which such document relates by putting up the document to be served on a conspicuous part of the premises to which the same relates: Provided that any notice, summons or order required by this Ordinance to be given, issued or made to the owner of any premises shall be served either by leaving the same at the place of business or residence within the Colony of such owner or of his authorised agent or if the whereabouts of such owner or of his authorised agent be unknown, by post by a registered letter addressed to such owner, or to 'his authorised agent, at his last known place of residence or of business in the Colony."

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 27th day of May, 1909.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 28th day of May, 1909.

F. H. MAY,

Colonial Secretary.

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