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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 206.-The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 10th July, 1913 :—

A BILL

ENTITLED

Short title.

Amendment of section 3

An Ordinance to amend the New Territories

Regulation Ordinance, 1910.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the "New Territories Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1913," and shall be read and construed as one with the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910,” (hereinafter called the Prin- cipal Ordinance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordi- nance may be cited together as the New Territories Regulation Ordinances, 1910 and 1913.

2. Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the deletion of the definition of “land " con- of Principal tained therein and by the substitution therefor of the

following definition :-

Ordinance.

Definition

of "land".

Amendment of section 6 of Principal Ordinance.

"Land

includes land covered by water or within the flow of the sea and houses and other build- ings and any undivided share in land and every estate and interest in land and also includes any rent or profit issuing out of land and any case- ment affecting land and also any market-build- ing or portion of such building and any rent or profit issuing out of any market-building or portion of such building.

3. Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following sub-

sections:

“(3.) By notification"published in the Gazette and by notice in the Chinese language posted at such place as any District Officer may think fit:-

(a.) To declare that any specified place shall be the market for any area within the New Territories exclusive of New Kow- loon.

(b) To determine the boundaries of the place within which any such market so declared shall be held.

(c.) To determine the boundaries of the area for which any such market so declared shall be the market.

(d.) To make rules both with regard to any market already in existence in the New Territories exclusive of New Kowloon or which may be declared under the provisions of this sub-section to be a market therein :—

(1.) Prescribing the construction and form of any building erected or to be erected in any market.

(2) Providing for the management and inspection of any market and for the appointment, control and dismissal of the managers and inspectors thereof.

(. Prohibiting the sale or exposure for sale within any area delimited as aforesaid save and except in any market declared to be the market for such area of any article or substance of any kind whatsoever.