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By-laws subject to

approval of

Legislative

Council.

Schedule A.

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(xvi) conservancy and the removal and disposal of excretal matter;

(xvii) the erection of public latrines and applications for permission to erect such latrines; and the sanitary mainten- ance of public latrines, urinals, dust-bins and manure depots;

(xviii) the sanitary maintenance of eating houses, restaurants, factories, workshops, breweries, distilleries, theatres and places of public instruction, recreation or assembly;

(xix) the control of dangerous, unhealthy and offensive trades, the prohibition of the continued maintenance of any such trade without a licence from the Council, the prohibition of the establishment of any such trade without a licence from the Council, and the revocation of licences to carry on such trades;

(xx) the regulation of public baths, laundries and wash- houses;

(xxi) the construction, licensing and proper sanitary maintenance of places and buildings in which animals are kept in private premises;

(xxii) providing for the regular inspection of all places where animals are kept;

(xxiii) the breaming of vessels and the maintenance of cleanliness in the harbours, on the foreshores and in the waters of the Colony;

(xxiv) the disposal of the dead, the regulation and sanitary maintenance of cemeteries, the fees to be charged in respect of graves, exhumations, interments, embalmings and storage of corpses, the keeping of such registers as may be necessary, and all other matters connected therewith; also the regulation and sanitary maintenance of mortuaries and the disinfection of dead bodies; and

(xxv) the prescribing of forms.

(2) The Council may in any such by-laws prescribe fines for any breach thereof not exceeding fifty dollars in each case. If no specific penalty is prescribed by the Council for the breach of any by-law, the maximum penalty for such breach shall be a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

(3) No by-law made by the Council under this Ordinance shall be held to be invalid on the ground that it imposes obligations or confers powers which exceed the obligations imposed or the powers conferred by some section of this Ordinance dealing with the same subject-matter as the by-law in question.

5.-(1) All by-laws made by the Urban Council shall be submitted to the Governor, and shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.

(2) The by-laws in Schedule A shall be in force except as they may be rescinded, suspended, amended or added to by by-laws made by the Council under section 4.

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