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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH APRIL, 1896.

Title

No. 5 OF 1896.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend The Buildings Ordinance, 1889.

LS

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

Repeal of s

6/ of 15 of

1829.

[16th April, 1896.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,

as follows:

1. Section 67 of Ordinance No. 15 of 1889 is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following section is substituted :—

"67. It shall not be lawful for the owner of any building or land to sink any well or to permit

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any well to be sunk within such building or "land without the permission of the Director "of Public Works who may graut the same on a written application, provided there be no "structural or other objection.

"Every well shall be so constructed as to "exclude surface water as far as possible, and "due provision shall be made for the convey-

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ance of the drip or waste water to the nearest "drain inlet or other channel into which it may "be lawfully discharged."

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 2nd day of April, 1896.

F. J. BADELEY,

Acting Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by Ilis Excellency the Governor, the 16th

day of April, 1896.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary,

Factors Ordinance, 1896.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Preliminary.

Section.

1.

2.

3.

Definitions.

Dispositions by Mercantile Agents,

Powers of mercantile agent with respect to disposition

of goods.

Effect of pledges of documents of title.

4. Pledge for antecedent debt.

6. Agreements through clerks, &c.

5.

Rights acquired by exchange of goods or documents.

7.

Provisions as to cousignors and consignees.

Dispositions by Sellers and Buyers of Goods.

8. Disposition by seller remaining in possession.

9. Disposition by buyer obtaining possession.

10.

Effect of transfer of documents on vendor's lien or

right of stoppage in transitu.

Supplemental.

11. Mode of transferring documents.

12. Saving for rights of true owner.

13. Saving for common law powers of agent.

14. Repeal.

15.

Commencement.

16. Short title.

SCHEDULE.