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THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 31ST MAY, 1894.
4. In cases where no householder as defined in the said section 3 exists or can be found, the owner of the building shall be served and upon such service being duly effected, he shall be liable as if he were the householder.
5. Any building or part of a building certified in writing by any duly qualified medical practi- tioner to be unfit for human habitation, even although cleaned and disinfected as hereinbefore provided, may be closed by order of the Permanent Committee and the occupants of the same removed if need be, by force, if they do not remove themselves and their furniture and effects within 24 hours after notice of the order to close the building or any part thereof has been served on the occupant or posted on the premises. And the Permanent Committee shall have power to erect matsheds, or hire empty godowns, or charter boats or vessels for the housing of persons so removed.
6. The expenses incurred under Bye-law No. 3 of these Bye-laws and the expenses of removing the occupants of any building or part of a building certified under Bye-law No. 5 to be unfit for human habitation, of housing them, and of feeding and clothing them for a period not exceeding one month in the event of their becoming, because of such removal, a charge on the Colony, shall be borne and paid by the householders or owners of such building as the case may be and shall be recoverable at the suit of the Colonial Treasurer in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court irrespective of the amount of such expenses, upon a certificate sigued by the Chairman of the Perma- nent Committee which shall be conclusive evidence of the facts certified therein:
Made by the Sanitary Board, this 31st day of May, 1894.
EDWARD A. RAM, Acting Segretarų“.
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