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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936.

851

HONG KONG,

No. 37 of 1936.

I assent.

LS.

A. CALDECOTT, Governor.

11th September, 1936.

An Ordinance to amend the Public Health (Sanitation)

Ordinance, 1935.

[11th September, 1936.]

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 Public Health Short title. (Sanitation) Amendment Ordinance, 1936.

2. The definition 'Urban District' in section 3 of the Amendment

of Ordinance Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, is amended by No. 15 of the deletion of the words "the City of Victoria," and the 1935, s. 3. substitution therefor of the words "the Island of Hong Kong."

3. The definition 'Workshop' in section 3 of the Public Amendment Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, is amended-

(a) by the substitution of a full stop for a comma after the word "article" in the sixth line thereof; and

(b) by the deletion of the words "provided that at least twenty persons are employed in manual labour in the said premises or in the close, curtilage or precincts thereof."

of Ordinance No. 15 of 1935, s. 3.

of Ordinance

4. Section 3 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, Amendment 1935, is amended by the insertion immediately after the No. 15 of definition 'Pail latrine' of the following definition :

1935, s. 3.

'Laundry' means any place at which articles of clothing Laundry. or of household use are washed, and includes any place wherein any such articles are dried, aired, ironed or stored after washing or where any such articles are received for the purpose of being forwarded to or returned from any place where they are to be or have been washed.

Amendment No. 15 of

of Ordinance

5. Sub-section (1) (xx) of section 4 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, is amended by the deletion of the words "the regulation of" and by the substitution 1935, s. 4

(1) (xx). therefor of the following words "the construction, licensing, regulation and proper sanitary maintenance of".

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