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[No. 25-10.8.36.-2.]

Short title.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 13 of 1935, s. 2.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 13 of 1935, s. 4 (4).

Amendment

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Public Health (Food) Ordinance,

1935.

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 (Food) Amendment Ordinance, 1936.

2. Section 2 of the Public Health (Food). Ordinance, 1935, is amended by the repeal of the definitions "Dairy", "Dairyman" and Milkshop" and by the substitution therefor of the following definitions :-

or

"Dairy" includes any farm, cowshed, milk store, other place from which milk is supplied on, or for, sale or in which milk is kept or used for purposes of sale or manufacture into butter, cheese, dried milk or condensed milk for sale, and, in the case of a purveyor of milk who does not occupy any premises for the sale of milk, includes the place where he keeps the vessels used by him for the sale of milk, but does not include a shop from which milk is not supplied otherwise than in the properly closed and unopened receptacles in which it was delivered to the shop, or a shop or other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only.

"Dairyman" includes any keeper of cows or buffaloes for the purpose of trade in milk, any purveyor of milk, any occupier of a dairy, or any occupier of a milk shop, and in cases where a dairy or milk shop is owned by a corporation or company includes the secretary or other person actually managing such dairy or milk shop.

"Milk shop" includes any premises on which fresh milk is sold in the properly closed and unopened receptacles in which it was delivered to the premises, but does not include a shop or other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only.

3. Section 4 (4) of the Public Health (Food) Ordinance, 1935, is amended by the deletion of the words "the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services," and by the substitution therefor of the words "the Chairman of the Urban Council,".

4. Section 4 (5) of the Public Health (Food) Ordinance

of Ordinance is amended-

No. 13 of 1935, s. 4

(5).

(a) by the substitution of the word "twenty-four" for the word "forty-eight", and