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Notes on the Boarding-house Amendment Bill.

1. This Bill carries out H.E.'s directions as to the transfer of the provisions governing common lodging-houses from the Sanitation Bill, in which they were originally included, to the Boarding-house Ordinance, 1917.

2. The Schedule comprises a separate and self-contained group of rules regulating these establishments, which is derived in part from the Boarding-house rules (Regulations of Hong Kong, p. 726 f) and in part from the Common Lodging-house by-laws in the Schedule to the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance which were reproduced in the Sanitation Bill.

3. A draft G.N. is also attached which effects the amendments of the present Boarding-house rules necessitated by the creation of the new group.