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A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 25 -10.8.36.—2.]

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 Short title. (Food) Amendment Ordinance, 1936.

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

"Dairy" includes any farm, cowshed, milk store, or 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.

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3. Section 4 (4) of the Public Health (Food) Ordinance, Amendment 1935, is amended by the deletion of the words "the Director No. 13 of of Medical and Sanitary Services," and by the substitution 1935, s. 4 therefor of the words "the Chairman of the Urban Council,".

(4).

4. Section 4 (5) of the Public Health (Food) Ordinance Amendment is amended---

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No. 13 of 1935, s. 4

(a) by the substitution of the word "twenty-four" for (5). the word "forty-eight", and