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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 447.-The following Bill is published for general information:-

C.S.O. 4855/34.

A BILL

[No. 48-5.12.34.-1.]

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance 1903, s. 16, para. (7).

No. 1 of

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Public Health and Buildings

Ordinance, 1903.

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, 1935.

2. Paragraph (7) of section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, is amended by the addition of the following words before the semi-colon at the end thereof :-

"and the prescribing of fees to be paid by householders in respect of such removal".

Objects and Reasons.

The purpose of the amendment effected by this Bill is to make possible the imposition of a charge on householders for the removal of night-soil and other excretal refuse from their premises where such removal is undertaken by the Sanitary Board. Such removal has been undertaken hitherto without charge in the Hill District only. In other districts house- holders make their own arrangements for night-soil removal.

December, 1934.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.