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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 26, 1929.

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HONG KONG.

No. 12 or 1929.

1 assent.

L.S.

C. CLEMENTI,

Governor.

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 16 of 1903, s. 2 (a) (ii).

Insertion

of new section 2A in Ordinance No. 16 of 1903.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 16 of 1903, s. 5.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 16 of 1903, s. 23.

26th July, 1929.

An Ordinance to amend the Waterworks Ordi-

nance, 1903.

[26th July, 1929.]

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 Waterworks Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. Sub-paragraph (47) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is amended by the sub- stitution of the word "amount" for the word "allowance” in the third line thereof.

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3. The following section is inserted in the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, immediately after section 2 thereof :--

Meaning of quarter ".

2A. In this Ordinance references to a quar- ter in connexion with water supplied by meter shall be construed as references to the period between two consecutive readings of the meter in question as provided by any regulation made under this Ordinance with reference to the calculation of the quarterly consumption.

4. Section 5 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is amended by the insertion of the following words immedi- ately after the word "rent" in the sixth line thereof :-

", and the sum (if any) due in respect of the quarterly amount referred to in sub-paragraph () of paragraph (a) of section 2, "”.

5. Section 23 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is amended as follows :-

(a) by the deletion of the words "such price not to exceed one dollar per thousand gallons" in paragraph (1) thereof;

(b) by the addition of the following words at the

end of paragraph (3) thereof :-

", the regulation or restriction of the per- sons resorting or desiring to resort thereto, the apportionment or rationing or restriction of the supplies which may be taken there- from, and the giving of powers to police officers and others with a view to such

regulation, apportionment, rationing, and restriction".