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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH JULY, 1898.

Repeal of

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to further amend The Cattle Di- seases, Slaughter-Houses, and Markets Ordi- nance, 1887.

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

1. Sub-section 5 of section 2 of Ordinance No. 17 of sub-section 1887 is, hereby, repealed and in lieu thereof the words of Ordinance following are hereby substituted:

of section 2

17 of 1887.

Substituted sub-section.

Amendment of bre-law

13 of Sche. dule A.

“Authorizing the Sanitary Board to declare any place or area to be infected with disease and to prohibit or regulate the movement of animals and persons into, within, or out of, any such infected place or area, and the removal of car- cases, fodder, litter, utensils, pens, hurdles, dung, or other things, into, within, or out of, such infected place or area.

2. Bye-law 13 of Schedule A of Ordinance 17 of 1887 is, horoby, amended by adding at the end thereof the words following:aud any persons residing upou or visiting such infected premises may be detained thereon by any officer of the Sanitary Board, pending the disinfection of such persons and of their clothing, to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Live-stock or other officer appointed by the Board in that behalf."

Objects and Reasons.

Ordinance No. 17 of 1887 omitted to confer the power to authorize the Sanitary Board to prohibit or regulate the movement of persons into, within, or out of, an infected place or area. In a recent outbreak of rinderpest this omission was found to be inconvenient. In the English Act, 57 and 58 Vict. c. 57, section 22, sub-section (2), proper provision in that respect is made, and the locni Ordinance has accordingly been amended to bring it more into line with sub-sections (2) and (4) of section 22 of the English Diseases of Animals Act, 1894.

W. MEIGH GOODMAN,

Attorney General,

tion.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to further amend The Building Ordinance, 1889.

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

Short title 1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The and construe- Building (Amendment) Ördinance, 1898, and shall be read

and construed as one with the Building Ordinance, 1889. Repeal of sec- 2. Section 74 of the Building Ordinance, 1889, (No. tion 4 of Or- 15 of 1889) is hereby repealed.

dinance No.

16 of 1889,

Section subs-

3. In lieu of section 74 of the Building Ordinance, 1889, tituted for see the following section is hereby substituted:-

tion 74 of Or-

dinance No.

15 of 1889.

Drain connee- tions with main sewers.

All private house-drains shall be laid as may be direct-

ed by the Sanitary Board under the provisions of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887 and of any Ordinances, from time to time, amending the same; and upon completion, within private premises, such private house-drains shall be connected with the Government main sewer, by the Director of Public Works, who shall have power to regulate the number and posi- tion of the connections to be made.