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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S. 10.-The following bills are published for general information :-

C.S.O. 3355/24.

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[No. 32.-20.12.30.-1.]

A BILL

Short title.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, s. 70.

Repeal of section 82 of Ordinance

No. 1 of 1903,

as enacted by Ordinance No. 19 of 1928,

8. 8, and

substitution

of two new sections.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, and an Enactment referring thereto.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

2. Section 70 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, is repealed.

3. Section 82 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, as enacted by section 8 of the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1928, is repealed and the following sections are substituted there- for :-

Sale and

82.-(1) No person shall sell or expose for possession of sale, or bring into the Colony or into any unwholesome market, or have in his possession without reasonable excuse, any food for man in a tainted diseased or unwholesome state, which is unfit for food for man.

food.

Penalty.

food.

or

(2) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceed- ing five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months.

Inspection of 83.-(1) Any member of the Board, or any unwholesome officer of the Department duly authorised by the Board in writing, may at all reasonable times enter into and inspect any place where he has reason to believe there is any food for man intended for sale, or where he has reason to believe there is any food for man in a tainted, diseased or unwholesome state, or which is unfit for food for man.

(2) Any member of the Board or any officer of the Department or of the police may inspect any food for man which he may find in any highway, street, road, pier, wharf, railway or vessel which he has reason to believe to be in a tainted diseased or unwholesome state, or unfit for food of man.

(3) Any such member or officer may seize any food which is or appears to be held in contravention of section 82; and, if authorised so to do in writing by the Head of the Depart- ment upon the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health or any Assistant Medical Officer of Health or of the Colonial Veterinary