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C.S.O. 19 in 5392, 29.

673

A BILL

[No. 14-14.7.29.-2 |

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Waterworks Ordi-

nance, 1903.

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 Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. Sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of Amendment the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is amended by the sub- of Ordinance stitution of the word "amount" for the word "allowance" No. 16 of

1903, in the third line thereof.

s. 2 (a) (ii).

2. The following section is inserted in the Waterworks Insertion

of new Ordinance, 1903, immediately after section 2 thereof :— Meaning of quarter ".

1903.

section 2A 2A. In this Ordinance references to a quar- in Ordinance ter in connexion with water supplied by meter No. 16 of 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 3 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is Amendment amended by the substitution of the word "Governor" for of Ordinance the words "Governor in Council".

No. 16 of 1903, s. 3.

Amendment

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

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

No. 16 of 1903, s. 5.

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

of Ordinance No. 16 of

(a) by the deletion of the words “such price uot 1903, s. 23.

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".

7. Section 24 of the Waterworks Ordinance, 1903, is Amendment amended by the deletion of all the words after the word of Ordinance "therewith" in the eighth line thereof and by the sub- No. 16 of stitution therefor of the following:-

"shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to a further fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each day whilst the offence continnes".

1903, s. 24.