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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JUNE, 1890.

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Preamble.

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

DRAFT BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to provide for and regulate the supply of Water in the Colony of Hongkong and for the maintenance and repair of the works in

connection therewith.

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HEREAS large sums have from time to time been expended and may hereafter be expended in the ostablishment and maintenance of waterworks to secure a proper and adequate supply of water for the inhabitants of the Colony and it is expedient to provide for and regulate the supply of water from such works as well as the main- teuance and repair of all works in connection therewith and also to make provision for the payment of all such sums as aforesaid not otherwise provided for and for the repayment of any loans in connection therewith and of the interest to accrue thereon. Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Waterworks Ordinance, 1890.

2. In this Ordinance and in any regulations made here- under unless there be something in the context repugnant to or inconsistent with such construction the following words and expressions shall have or shall include the mean- ings respectively set against them, viz. :-

Waterworks.-All reservoirs, dams, weirs, tanks, cis- forms, tunnels, filter-beds, conduits, aqueducts, pipes, fountains, sluices, valves, pumps, steam- engines, and all other structures or appliances used or constructed, or to be used or constructed, for the storage, conveyance, supply, measurement or regulation of water which are so used or have been constructed by, or on behalf of, the Crown, and are the property thereof or which shall here- after be used or constructed by the Water Autho- rity.

Water Authority.-The Resident Engineer of the waterworks or such other person, persons or body corporate as the Governor in Council may, from time to time, appoint to manage, or supervise the waterworks or water supply of this Colony. Service. All pipes, valves, cisterns, cocks, fittings, and other appliances (excepting any meter as hereinafter defined) by or through which water flows or is intended to flow from the waterworks or which are or may be used for the purpose of supplying any tenement from the waterworks and which service is the property of the owner or occupier of such tenement.

Public Fountain.-Any fountain, stand-post, valve, tap, or appliance used or intended to be used for, or in connection with, the supply of water to the public from the waterworks, and erected or here- after to be crected by the Crown or the Water Authority and which is the property of the Crown. Meter-Any appliance used to measure, ascertain or regulate the amount of water taket or used from the waterworks by means of any service as well as any orifice or gauge or other appliance used in estimating the flow of water in or from any part of the waterworks.

Owner. The holder of any tenement direct from the Crown whether under case, licence or otherwise, or the immediate landlord of any tenement, or the agent of any such holder or landlord who is absent or under disability, or, if there is no such agent, the occupier of the tenement. Tenemerd.-Any land with or without buildings which is held or occupied as a distinct or separate holding or tenancy, or any wharf or pier in the waters of the Colony.

Domestic Supply.---Water from the waterworks used in any tenement for drinking, washing, cooking or for bathis or any other purpose of domestic life.

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