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24. Section 26 of this Ordinance amends the Third Schedule to the principal Ordinance by inserting therein the form of ship to ship removal permit already referred to in paragraph 10 above.

25. Section 27 of this Ordinance amends Ordinance No, I of 1903 so as to give the Sanitary Board the power to prescribe the fees to be paid in respect of eating house licences. This is in accordance with the policy referred to in paragraph 6 above. Ordinance No. 19 of 1928, section 4, has already given the Sanitary Board the power to make regulations with regard to eating houses.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General,

21st November, 1929.

C.S.O. 6355/11.

[No. 17-8.11.29.—2 ]

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903,

s. 16 (17).

Amendment of Ordinance

No. 1 of 1903,

s. 188.

An Ordinance to amend further the Public

Health and Buildings Ordinance, 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 Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. Paragraph (17) of section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, as amended by section 4 of the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1928, is further amended by the insertion of the words "and the prescribing of the fees to be paid in respect of eating-house licences," immediately after the words "and eating-houses".

3. Section 188 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, is amended as follows:--

(a) in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) by the dele- tion of the word fronts" wherever it occurs and by the substitution therefor of the word

'abuts";

(b) in paragraph (3) by the deletion of the third paragraph of the proviso, beginning “The amount of compensation " and ending “for human habitation ;

(c) in paragraph (4) by the deletion of the words on which it fronts in the last line and by

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the substitution therefor of the word “ upon which it abuts";

(d) by inserting immediately after paragraph (4)

the following new paragraph :-

"(5) No building which does not fall within the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) or (4) of this section shall be erected or re-erected or raised to a height