THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH MAY, 1888.
5. Every person contravening any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable ou summary conviction by a Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding one hundred Dollars or in default of payment to imprisonment not exceeding three months and every tenement built, sub-divided or occupied in contravention of this Ordinance shall be deemed a nuisance within the meaning of Ordinance No. 8 of 1856 which nuisance may be abated accordingly.
6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be held to prevent the owners of Chinese tenements now existing within the European District from repairing such tenements in accord- ance with their present structure nor shall anything in this Ordinance be held to preclude any Chinese or other person from owning or occupying or residing in, any lawful tene- ment in the European District.
7. This Ordinance shall not apply to any land in the occupation of the War Department but shall apply to any land now in the occupation of the War Department whenever any such land ceases to be in such occupation.
8. Nothing contained in this Ordinance shall be held to affect the right, which has hitherto been exercised by the Government, of forbidding the erection in any part of the Colony, (whether in the European district or elsewhere) of buildings of a different character from those previously existing on the same site, or the practice which has hitherto existed of submitting plans for the erection of new buildings or the alteration of old ones for the approval of the Surveyor General, and such right is hereby expressly de- clared to exist, and such practice is declared to be obligatory.
Any person erecting any new buildings or making any substantial alteration in any buildings already existing without the approval of the Surveyor General in respect of the plan of such buildings or alterations having been first obtained, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding Five hundred dollars, and to a further fine not exceding One hundred dollars for each week subsequent to such conviction during which such buildings remain in situ without the authorization of the Surveyor General as aforesaid.
9. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance contained, the Governor may, in his discretion, permit the erection within the European District of buildings of any type of architecture if he he satisfied that they are intended for a useful public purpose, other than habitation.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 27th day of April, 1888.
Penalties.
Existing tenements, repairs, and Chinese owners.
Land in occupation of War Department.
As to existing practice of Bubmitting
plans to Surveyor General.
Buildings for useful public purpose other than babits- tion.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 5th day of May, 1888.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary.
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