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[No. 44 18.1.35.-4.]

(C.S.O. 3626/1926 III.)

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment of Ordin- ance No. 23 of 1917, s. 2 (2).

Rules. Schedule.

Ordinance No. 23 of 1917.

Commence- ment.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Boarding-house Ordinance, 1917.

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 Boarding-house Amendment Ordinance, 1935.

2. Sub-section (2) of section 2 of the Boarding-house Ordinance, 1917, is amended by the repeal of paragraph (c) and the substitution therefor of the following paragraph:-

(c) Common lodging-houses or Ku Li Kun ().

3. The Rules in the Schedule shall be in force except in so far as they may be rescinded, added to or amended by rules of the Governor in Council, and shall be deemed to be rules made under the Boarding-house Ordinance, 1917.

4. This Ordinance shall come into force on such date as may be fixed by proclamation of the Governor.

SCHEDULE.

Common Lodging-house or Ku Li Kun () Rules.

1. In these Rules:-

common lodging-house" or "Ku Li Kun (

means any

building or part of a building in which persons of the labouring, artizan or mechanical classes, not being members of the same family, to the number of ten or upwards are housed;

"keeper of a common lodging-house" means any person licensed to keep a common lodging-house or Ku Li Kun (I).

2.-(a) No building or part of a building shall be used as a common lodging-house or Ku Li Kun() except under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who shall keep a register of all such houses.

(b) If any person who opens or keeps open any common lodging-

house or Ku Li Kun喱館 contrary to this rule cannot be found, or if the keeper of a common lodging-house is absent from the Colony, the householder, as defined by the Sanitation Ordinance, 1935, of the premises on which such common lodging-house or Ku Li Kun() is shall be deemed to be the person who has opened or kept open such house and shall be liable accordingly in respect of any contravention of these Rules.