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A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 46-18.12.35.—4.]

An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to Quarantine and the Prevention of Disease among human beings.

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 Quarantine and Short title. Prevention of Disease Ordinance, 1936.

Part I.

GENERAL.

Interpretation.

2.--(1) In this Ordinance

Aerodrome means a place set apart for the arrival and departure of aircraft and includes a place for the landing of hydroplanes (and similar craft) on water. Whatever relates in this Ordinance to aerodromes is to be understood to apply mutatis mutandis to places for the landing of hydroplanes (and similar craft) on water.

Aerodrome

Aircraft" includes any machine which can derive sup- Aircraft. port in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air and is intended for aerial navigation.

Authorised aerodrome

means any

aerodrome declared Authorised by the Governor in Council by notification in the Gazette to

aerodrome. be an authorised aerodrome, on which aircraft may make their first landing on entering the Colony and which they may make their place of departure on leaving the Colony.

"Building" includes any house, hut, shed or roofed Building. enclosure, whether needed for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing stage or bridge.