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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1894.

Bye-laws.

Appletion of Ordin: new.

Suit not t be again et Sanitary

Land.

13. (1) The Sanitary Board are hereby empowered to make, vary and repoal bye-laws for or in regard to all or any of the following matters (that is to say):-

(1) For prescribing the material and the nature and thickness thereof to be used for covering over the ground surface of all buildings and of all yards in connection therewith.

(ii) For fixing and from time to time varying the number of persons who may occupy a domestic building or any part thereof and for marking on the exterior or interior of such buildings the number of persons permitted to occupy the same or any part thereof.

(iii) For prescribing the material to be used for en- closing the space to be left above any partitions in connection with section 7 of this Ordinance. (iv) For the periodical entry and inspection of all

buildings-

(a) For the purpose of ascertaining whether the same are in an overcrowded con- dition,

(b) For the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary condition, cleanliness and good order thereof or any part thereof and of any mezzanine floors, storeys or cocklofts therein or the condition of any drains therein or in connection therewith.

(v) (a) For promoting cleanliness and ventilation in

domestic buildings.

(b) For the cleansing and removal of filth at stated times in domestic buildings.

(2) The Sanitary Board may in any such bye-laws impose penalties for any breach thereof.

(3) All such bye-laws shall be subject to the provisions of section 15 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, as

if they had been made under such Ordinance.

(4) All penalties for any breach of such bye-laws shall be enforced in the same manner as penalties under this Ordi- nance may be enforced.

14. The provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to domestic buildings outside the European District as defined in The European District Reservation Ordinance, 1888, and within the districts of the City of Victoria mentioned in section 6 of Ordinance No. 13 of 1888 entitled The Regulation of Chinese Ordinance, 1888, and to such other domestic buildings in such other districts or places in the Colony as may hereafter be notified by the Governor in the Gazette and to the extent therein

mentioned.

15. No suit or action shall be commenced or lie, or if commenced be continued against the Sanitary Board or its Officers or the Permanent Committee thereof or any person acting under the authority of the Sanitary Board or the Permanent Committee for any loss or damage incurred by or resulting to any person by reason-

(a) Of the removal of the occupants of any house mentioned in the 1st and 2nd schedules hereto. (b) of the shutting up or closing of any such house

or any part thereof,

(c) of the destruction or removal of, or of the damage to any furniture, fittings, mezzanine floors, cocklefts, partitions or articles in any such house closed or disinfected by orders of the Sanitary Board, provided such destruction, removal or damage occurred during the preva- lence of the Bubonic Plague or during any operations which were necessary or deemed necessary for the cleansing and disinfecting of any such honses, or

(d) of any loss of reut whatever in respect of any

such house, or

(e) Of the continued possession of any such house or any part thereof by the Sanitary Board or the Permanent Committee thereof pending the carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance in respect thereof.