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26. Clause 21 gives the police power to arrest and prosecute for offences against sections 78, 82, 185, 210 and 211 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903. Section 78 of that Ordinance probibits the sale outside market limits of articles of food usually sold in markets. Section 82 prohibits the sale of unwholesome food. Section 185 prohibits stalls and other obstructions in private streets. Section 210 deals with the pre- cautions to be observed in connection with blasting. Section 211 deals with earth-cutting, etc., on Crown land. The necessity for the clause arises from the fact that sections 230 and 256 of the Ordinance in question appear to contemplate only proceedings at the suit of the officers therein specified.

27. Clause 22 repeals a section of the principal Ordi- nance which imposes increased penalties for second and subsequent offences. This section is considered unne- cessary in view of the general raising of the maximum penalties which this bill proposes to affect throughout the principal Ordinance,

21st January, 1918.

A BILL

INTITULED

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

Short title and con- struction.

Ordinance No. 9 of 1900.

Prohibition of smoking on board

An Ordinance to amend the Dangerous

Smoking Prevention Ordinance, 1900.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dangerous Smoking Prevention Ordinance, 1918, and shall be read and construed as one with the Dangerous Smoking Prevention Ordinance, 1900, and the said Ordinance and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Dangerous Smoking Prevention Ordinances, 1900 and 1918.

2. No person shall smoke on board any vessel what- soever which is in any naval dock or naval dockyard or alongside any naval premises, provided that this section shall not apply to any person who is a member Naval Dock- of His Majesty's Naval Forces.

vessels in or alongside

yards.

Power of exemption.

Penalty.

3. It shall be lawful for the Senior Naval Officer in Hongkong to grant such exemptions from the pro- visions of this Ordinance as he may think fit.

4. Every person who contravenes any of the provi- sions of this Ordinance shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars.

Objects and Reasons,

This bill has been introduced at the request of the Naval Authorities, and it is intended to provide a pen- alty for smoking on board vessels in or alongside any naval dockyard.

19th May, 1918.

J. II. KEMP,

Allorney Generul.

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