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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1894.

Appliation of Ordinance.

Suits not to be against Sanitary Board.

Extension of operation of

*P. 32 to 38 of Public Health Ordinance.

Interpretation,

(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, 1837, 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 snit 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 bouse

or any part thereof,

(c) of the destruction or removal of, or of the damage to any furniture, fittings, mezzanine floors, cocklofts, partitions or articles in any such house closed or disinfected by orders of the Sanitary Board, provided such destruction, removal or tlamage 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 houses, or

(d) of any loss of rent 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,

16. Notwithstanding anything contained in The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, or any revocation of any procla- mation issued under section 31 thereof, sections 32 to 38 thereof shall continue in force and have operation for a period of one year from the coming into operation of this Ordinance unless the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, shall by notification in the Gazette have declared the same or any of them to have ceased to have force or operation.

17. In this Ordinance the expressions "Building" "domestic building," "tenement-house," shall bear the same meanings as are respectively given to them in The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

(Houses closed and not yet re-opened.)

SECOND SCHEDULE. (Houses closed and since re-opened.)