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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH APRIL, 1895.

No. 7 or 1895.

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

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WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

Title

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[9th April, 1895.]

Eit emneted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

Be advice

of, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Building (Amendment) Ordinance, 1895, and shall be read and construed as one with The Building Ordinance, 1889, as amended by Ordinance No. 25 of 1891.

2. Sectious 70, 84 and 85 and schedule 4 of The Build- ing Ordinance, 1889, are hereby repealed.

3. In lieu of section 70 of The Building Ordinance, 1889, the following section is hereby substituted :-

"It shall not be lawful to commence any building or "works or to resume the same if they have been

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suspended for a period exceeding three months "until four days' notice in writing of the intention to "commence or resume the same in or according to "the form contained in schedule A shall have been

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given to the Director of Public Works by leaving "such notice at his office. Every such notice shall "specify the number, if any, and the position or locality of the intended building or work together "with the Land register number of the lot on which "it is intended to build or carry on the work, and shall give any special or material particulars in "connection with the same which it has not been possible to denote on the plans. Such notice shall "also state the name and address of the owner or occupier of the lot or building, or the name and "address of the duly authorized agent of the owner or occupier of the lot or building, and "shall be signed by such owner or occupier or agent; and the party signing the said notice "shall state whether he sigus as owner or occupier "or such agent, and the person so signing shall be liable for every act, failure, neglect, omission 'or refusal whereby any section of this Ordinance "is contravened during the progress of such work "or building or pending the issue of the certifi- "eate required under section 53 of The Building "Ordinance, 1889. The person signing such "notice shall, in the event of the information con- "tained therein being proved to be materially "incorrect, be liable ou summary conviction before

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a Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding $25 "in respect of every such notice."

4. In lieu of sections 84 and 85 of The Building Ordi- nance, 1889, the following section shall be substituted, viz.

"Fine for Buisan- ces and offences."

“Every person committing a nuisance within the meaning of section 77, or offending against any of the provisions, of this Ordinance, shall be liable on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding $100.”

5. The schodule A hereto is hereby substituted for schedule A in The Building Ordinance, 1889.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 4th day of April, 1895.

ARATHOON SETHI, Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by His Excelleney the Governor, the 9th

day of April, 1895.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

Short title.

Construction.

Repeal of secs. 70, 84 and 85 and schedule A of No. 15 of 1589. Substituted rection for 8. 70 of No. 15 of 1892.

Notice of

COMIDIÉTICA - nient of

works.

Substituted section for sections 84 and 85 of Ord. No. 15 of 1889.

Subotivated schedule for schedule A of Ord. 15 of 1859.