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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 242. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 4th October, 1917:—

A BILL

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Rutes.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide for the licensing and control of places where persons are lodged for hire.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Boarding House Ordinance, 1917.

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2.--(1.) In this Ordinance the term "boarding house shall include every place where any person is harboured or lodged for any kind whatsoever of hire or reward and where any domestic service whatsoever is rendered by the owner, lessee, principal tenant, occupier, or master, to the person so harboured or lodged: provided that the term shall not include any boarding house for non- Chinese seamen within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.

(2.) In particular, and without prejudice to sub-section (1) of this section, and notwithstanding anything therein contained, the term boarding house in this Ordinance shall include the following:-

(a) hotels;

() boarding houses;

(c) common lodging houses as defined in the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903;

(d) places where employers lodge their employees, of either sex and of whatever occupation; and

(e) the premises of societies within the meaning of the Societies Ordinance, 1911, where per- sons pass the night.

3.--(1.) The Governor in Council shall have power to make rules for the following purposes:—~

(a) the classification and definition of different

kinds of boarding houses;

(b) the registration and licensing of boarding

houses;

(e) the suspension and cancellation of such

licences;

(d) the fixing of fees to be paid in respect of

such licences;

(e) the management and control of boarding

houses;

(f) the fixing of penalties for breaches of rules made under this section, provided that such penalties do not exceed the scale specified in section 6 of this Ordinance;

(g) the authorisation of persons to make searches

for the purposes of this Ordinance ;

(h) the carrying out of this Ordinance generally. (2.) Any such rules may refer only to some particular class of boarding house.

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