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that any buildings or works other than Government buildings or works have been or may hereafter be erected or carried out upon designs or plans or of type, con- struction or materials consented to or approved of by the Government or by any Government officer or by reason of the fact that any such works or buildings are subject to the approval or inspection of any Government officer.
Objects and Reasons.
1. The general object of this Ordinance is to make certain further amendments in the principal Ordi- nance, i.e. the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, which seem desirable.
2. Section 2 amends the definition of Colonial Veterinary Surgeon so as to include any Assistant Veterinary Surgeon.
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3. Section 3 (a) which refers to the removal of Architects from the register for good cause shown is intended to take away the ambiguity which exists from the use of the words "and remove any such names in section 7 of the principal Ordinance.- The amendment makes it clear that any architect may be removed from the list.-Section 3 (b) authorizes the name of an Architect, who has ceased to practise in the Colony, to be removed from the Register.
4. The licensing of eating houses is now undertaken by the Sanitary Department and it is convenient that the Board should be given the power to make by-laws with respect to them. Hence the small amendments effected by sections 2 (2) and section 4.
5. The amendment effected by section 5 (b) of this Ordinance is rendered necessary by the fact that a new Officer has recently been appointed with the title of Second Medical Officer of Health; provision is also made for the appointment of a Deputy Medical Officer of Health; whilst section 5 (a) provides for the appointment of Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeons and meat and food Inspectors.
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6. Section 6 deletes the words in any market from section 70 as it is found that these words cause a troublesome limitation on the operation of the section.
7. The object of section 7 is to prevent places for sale of food being maintained in the Hill District unless they are licensed and properly controlled. Ex- perience has shown the danger of the establishment at the Peak of shops in which the sale of food is not kept under proper sanitary conditions. Such shops tend also to attract rats and might possibly become centres of infection if plague were to return to the Colony.
8. Section 8 of this Ordinance repeals sections 82, 83 and 83A of the principal Ordinance the language and arrangement of the repealed sections 82 and 83 being unsatisfactory. The new section 82, enacted by section 6 of this Ordinance, is based, subject to differ- ences hereafter mentioned, upon the language of sub- sections (1) to (3) of section 47 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.-Accordingly the fine under sub-section (2) of the new section 82, i.e. $500, is the
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