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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939.

No. 711.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 26 of 1913. (EDUCATION).

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 12 of the Education Ordinance, 1913, the Governor in Council hereby rescinds the regulations made under the said Ordinance and published as Government Notification No. 772 in the Gazette of the 9th December, 1932, Government Notification No. 16 in the Gazette of the 13th January, 1933, Government Notification No. 329 in the Gazette of the 12th May, 1933, and Government Notification No. 801 in the Gazette of the 18th October, 1935, and makes the following regulations :-

PART I.

Interpretation.

1. For the purpose of these regulations:-

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boarding school" means a school in connexion with which hostels, dormitories or other rooms or premises are provided for the housing or lodging of some or all of the pupils of that school out of school hours, whether such hostels, dormitories, or other rooms or premises are in or part of the same building or group of buildings as the classrooms or not;

"boarders" means the pupils of a boarding school for whom housing or lodging accommodation is provided:

"classroom

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means any room used for teaching pur-

' dormitory means anv room provided as sleeping accommodation for boarders;

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infectious disease means any disease to which the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, 1936, applies;

"school" includes a boarding school:

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tenement-house means any domestic building con- structed, used or adapted for human habitation by more than one tenant.

PART II.

Conditions of Approval.

2. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of any enactment relating to buildings, no building shall be used as a school unless-