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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 498.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 5th December, 1929 :-

C.S.O. 6355/11.

[No. 17-23.11.29.-3 1

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 1 of

1903, s. 8 (1).

Amendment

No. 1 of

1903,

INTITULED

Au 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. Sub-section (1) of section 8 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, is amended by the substitution of the words "Director of Medical and

Medical Officer of

Sanitary Services" for the words

Health" in the fourth line thereof.

3. Paragraph (17) of section 16 of the Public Health of Ordinance 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".

s. 16 (17).

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 1 of 1903,

s. 188.

4. 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" ;

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

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(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 exceeding such height as the Building Authority may authorise, but in the case of a building on land abutting upon a street the Building Authority shall have no power to require such building to be of a less height than that specified in such of the foregoing paragraphs as would apply if such building had been so arranged as to abut upon such street";

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