866 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 23rd JULY, 1887.
Hill-side.
Householder.
8. Hill-side. The face of the natural hill, or the face
of any scarp or retaining-wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining-wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building.
9. Householder. The actual tenant or occupier of the whole of any building or in cases where there shall be no such person, then the immediate landlord of the whole of such building and in the case of Corporations, Companies and Associa- tions the Secretary or Manager thereof shall be deemed the Householder and shall be liable under this Ordinance.
[Injurious to health.]
[10.
Keeper of a
Common
Lodging-
House.
New Building.
Occupier.
Owner.
Person.
Fremises
Tanant.
Tenement- House.
[Unhealthy.]
Vessel.
Constitution
of the Board.
President, Vice-President and Chairman.
Substitute members.
10.
Injurious to health. Anything which, in the
opinion of the Board, is injurious to health.] Keeper of a Common Lodging-House.-Any person
licensed to keep a Common Lodging- House. 11. New Building.-Any structure, begun after the commencement of this Ordinance or of which the enclosing walls have not been carried higher than the footings, or such old buildings as shall for the purposes of reconstruction be taken down to an extent exceeding one half, such half to be measured in cubic feet.
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12. Occupier. The person in actual occupation of any
premises.
13. Owner-Any house-owner, or the person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint-tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person, or where the owner cannot be found or ascertained the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an Owner.
14. Person (and words applied in this Ordinance to any individual). Corporations, Companies, and Associations.
15. Premises. Any land, building, or structure of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, paddy-field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered, or enclosed, cess- pool or foreshore, also any vessel or boat lying within the waters of the Colony.
16. Secretary.The Secretary to the Sanitary Board duly appointed under the provisions of Section 5 of this Ordinance.
17. Tenant.-Any person who leases direct from any Householder the whole of any floor or floors of any building or tenement-house.
18. Tenement-House.-Any domestic building let to and inhabited by more than one occupier or family, as tenants of a common landlord, or as sub-tenants of a tenant of any portion of such domestic building.
[20. Unhealthy. Any thing which is in the opinion of
the Board injurious to Health.]
19. Vessel. Any steam or sailing ship, launch, junk,
lighter, sampan, or boat.
4. The Board shall consist of the Surveyor General, the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Colonial Surgeon, and not more than six addi- tional members, four of whom, (two being Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor, and one elected by the Chamber of Commerce and one by the Justices of the Peace. Non-official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.
5. The Governor shall appoint the President, Vice- President, and Secretary of the Board, and the names of all members appointed to the Board shall be forthwith notified in the Government Gazette, and any number of the Government Gazette containing a notice of any such ap- pointments shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof before any Magistrate or Court of Law.
6. If any member of the Board be at any time pre- vented by absence or other cause from acting for more than six months, the Governor may appoint or if the member has been elected the electors may nominate some other person to replace such member, until he shall be able to resume his functions.
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