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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 22, 1935.

(b) By the substitution of the following for sub-section (2):----

"(2) Except with the permission of the Building Authority and in accordance with the terms of such permission no person shall construct any water closet or urinal: Provided that any person aggrieved by the grant or refusal of such permission or by the terms thereof may refer to the Council, whose decision, subject to the right of appeal given by section 84, shall determine the matter."

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

The third reading of the Bill was postponed to enable the Bill as amended to be

published in the Gazette as required by Standing Order 28 (1).

12. Public Health (Food) Bill.-The Attorney General presented the report of the Standing Law Committee on "A Bill to make better provision for the main- tenance of Public Health in relation to Food," and moved that the Bill as amended by the Standing Law Committee and published in the Gazette of the 8th March, 1935, be substituted for the Bill as read a second time, and that it be considered in the Committee of the whole Council.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Council in Committee on the Bill.

On Council resuming, the Attorney General reported that the Bill had passed through Committee without amendment, and moved that it be read a third. time.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time and passed.

ADJOURNMENT.

13. The Council then adjourned until Thursday, the 21st day of March, 1935,

at 2.30 p.m.

Confirmed this 21st day of March, 1935.

R. A. C. NORTH,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

W. PEEL,

Governor.

No. 233.-His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the KING, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council:

Ordinance No. 14 of 1935.-An Ordinance to amend further the Telephone

Ordinance, 1925.

Ordinance No. 15 of 1935.- An Ordinance to amend the law relating to town cleansing, nuisances, domestic sanitation, the licensing of certain premises and trades and the disposal of the dead.

Ordinance No. 16 of 1935.—An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law

relating to Quarantine and the Prevention of Disease among animals and birds.