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No. S. 228.-The following draft of regulations proposed to be made when the intended Waterworks Amendment Ordinance, 1929, is passed, is published for general information.

Draft Regulations.

'No.

Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 23 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 16 of 1903, on the day of July, 1929.

1. Regulation of the regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 23 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, and appearing on pages 307 to 322 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1914-1925, is rescinded and the following regulation is substituted therefor :-

Hong Kong: price of the

+4

quarterly

amount".

Hong Kong: price of

excess

consumption.

Hospitals and charita-

able institu- tions.

Naval

establish-

ments.

Certain military

establish-

ments.

Aberdeen,

Aplichau and Shaukiwan

Unfiltered

water. Pokfulam, Repulse Bay, Stanley and

Tai Tam.

Kowloon and

New Kowloon.

Tai Po.

Fan Ling.

1-(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (3) to (7), both inclu- sive, of this regulation, the price of all filtered water supplied by meter which falls within the quarterly amount referred to in sub-paragraph (7) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, shall be seventy-five cents per thousand gallons in the Peak District and fifty cents per thousand gallons in all other parts of the island of Hong Kong.

(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (3) to (7), both inclusive, of this regulation, the price of all excess consumption in the case of filtered water shall be one dollar and seventy-five cents per thousand gallons in the Peak District and one dollar and twenty-five cents per thousand gallons in all other parts of the island of Hong Kong.

(3) In the case of filtered water supplied by meter to hospitals or chari- table institutions no price shall be charged in respect of the quarterly amount referred to in sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Water- works Ordinance, 1903, and the price of all excess consumption shall be seventy-five cents per thousand gallons.

(4) In the case of water supplied by meter to naval establishments the price of all filtered water shall be seventy-five cents per thousand gallons, and of all unfiltered water thirty-five cents per thousand gallons.

(5) Any special price hitherto charged for filtered water supplied by meter to military establishments shall remain in force.

(6) In the case of filtered water supplied by meter at Aberdeen, Aplichan and Shaukiwan no price shall be charged in respect of the quarterly amount referred to in sub-paragraph (77) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Water- works Ordinance, 1903, and the price of all excess consumption shall be seventy-live cents per thousand gallons.

(7) The price of all unfiltered water supplied by meter at Pokfulam, Repulse Bay, Stanley, and Tai Tam, and elsewhere except at Tai Po or Fan Ling, shall be fifty cents per thousand gallous.

(8) In the case of filtered water supplied by meter in Kowloon or New Kowloon no price shall be charged in respect of the quarterly amount referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, and the price of all excess consumption shall be seventy-five cents per thousand gallons.

(9) The price of all unfiltered water supplied by meter at Tai Po shall be thirty-five cents per thousand gallons.

(10) The price of all unfiltered water supplied by meter at Fan Ling shall be one dollar per thousand gallons: provided that the special price hitherto charged for water supplied to the Royal Hongkong Golf Club at Fan Ling shall remain in force.

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