572499-1930-Order-under-section-3-of-the-Dogs-Ordinance-1927 — Page 1

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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 1, 1930.

Hong Kong.

No. 474

Order made by the Governor in Council under section 3 of the Dogs Ordinance, 1927, Ordinance No. 21 of 1927, on the 30th day of July, 1930,

WHEREAS regulations 21, 22, 23 and 25 of the regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 3 of the Dogs Ordinance, 1927, and set forth in Government Notification No. 694 of 1927, amended as appears in Government Notification No. 377 of 1930, and read as directed by section 14 of the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1929, are as follows,-

21. No dog shall be allowed to go abroad in the public thoroughfares or elsewhere unless it is either muzzled or on the lead, and any dog found abroad in the public thoroughfares or elsewhere which is neither muzzled nor on the lead may be captured and detained, or may be shot or otherwise destroyed, by any police officer or by any person authorized by the Inspector General of Police: The owner of any dog so found shall be deemed to have allowed such dog to go abroad neither muzzled nor on the lead and to have contravened the provisions of this regulation: Provided that this regulation shall not apply to the New Territories (other than New Kowloon).

22. Except with the permission in writing of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon no dog shall be removed from or landed on the Island of Hong Kong.

23. Except with the permission in writing of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon no dog shall be brought from the New Territories (other than New Kowloon) into any other part of the Colony.

25. No dog shall be landed on Stonecutters Island.

AND WHEREAS it is enacted, inter alia, by sub-section (1) of section 40 of the Inter- pretation Ordinance, 1911, that discretionary power to make regulations shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including the power, exercisable in like manner, and subject to the same conditions, if any, to suspend the regulations made, or any part thereof:

AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council deems it proper and expedient, having regard to the absence of rabies in the Colony, to suspend the said regulations 21, 22, 23 and 25:

Now, therefore, IT IS ORDERED that the said regulations 21, 22, 23 and 25 be sus- pended until further order.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

30th July, 1980.

D. W. TRATMAN,

Clerk of Councils.

No. 475.-It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor in Council has given directions for the rescission of the Order of the 6th May, 1930, published in the Gazette of the 9th May, 1930, as Government Notification No. 272, declaring Saigon to be a place at which an infectious or contagious disease, namely, cholera prevailed, and the same is hereby rescinded.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

31st July, 1930.

D. W. TRATMAN,

Clerk of Councils.

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