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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 25. 1941.

552

No. 467.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 15 of 1935. (PUBLIC HEALTH

[SANITATION]).

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 (XVI) of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, the Urban Council makes the following amendments to the by-laws under the heading Conservancy contained in Schedule A to that Ordinance, to take effect on 1st May, 1941.

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Amendments.

1. By-law 2 (1) is rescinded and the following by-law is substituted therefor:-

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2.-(1) The Council shall provide a departmental service or employ contractors for the removal of excretal matter from all buildings (where not fitted with water closets) in the following districts :-

(a) The Island of Hong Kong.

(b) The Island of Aplichau.

(c) Kowloon and that portion of New Kowloon lying to the west of a line drawn from a point on the sea-shore 200 yards east of the village of Ngau Tau Kok due north to the northern boundary of New Kowloon.

2. The following paragraph is added after by-law 7 (2) :—

(3) Any person other than a servant of a conservancy contractor to the Urban Council or a servant of the Sanitary Department who conveys or causes to be conveyed along any street or public place or upon the waters of the Colony any excretal matter, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to confiscation of all gear, cart, carriage, receptacle or vessel used for any such purpose.

Made by the Urban Council this 25th day of March, 1941.

C. J. ROE,

Secretary.

Approved by the Legislative Council this 24th day of April, 1941.

C. BRAMALL BURGESS,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.