420
ORDINANCES Nos. 8 AND 9 OF 1858.
Regulation of Chinese-Census.
Markets.
3. The lodging house-keeper shall cause the means of ventilation provided in or in connection with the house to be kept at all times in good order and efficient action.
4. The lodging house-keeper shall not suffer any room not licensed as a sleeping room to be used as such.
5. The lodging house-keeper shall cause all filth and refuse matters to be removed from his premises daily.
6. No person of the male sex above 10 years of age shall occupy the same sleeping room as persons of the female sex.
7. No person of the female sex above 10 years of age shall occupy the same sleeping room as persons of the male sex.
8. Rules 6 and 7 do not apply to married couples.
9. The house shall be at all times open to inspection by members of the Sanitary Board or any of its officers.
[See Ords. No. 5 of 1867, and No. 3 of 1878.]
Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1854.
Governor in Council empowered to establish and close markets, and to make regulations and bye-laws.
[* See Ordinance No. 5 of 1837, s. 5.]
No market to be deemed established till notified in the Gazette.
Prohibition of other markets.
No. 9 of 1858.
The Markets' Ordinance, 1858.
[31st May, 1858.]
BE it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. Ordinance No. 2 of 1854 is hereby repealed.
2. All markets presently established within the district of Victoria shall be subject to this Ordinance; but it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council from time to time to close the same or any of them, and also to establish and continue or close any new market or markets within the said district, and to make such bye-laws for the letting of houses, shops, stalls, or standings therein, in any of the said markets, hereinbefore specified, and the durations and conditions of such lettings, and the rents to be received for the same, and also for the good government of the said markets, the repression or prevention of disorder therein, and the protection of the traffic thereof, as to His Excellency in Council shall seem meet: Yet so as that no such bye-laws shall be contrary to this Ordinance, or capable of being enforced until the same shall have been in English and Chinese published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, and, for the space of seven consecutive days, posted in all existing markets.
3. No new market shall be deemed to be established until after notification made by His said Excellency in Council, in the Hongkong Government Gazette, in English and Chinese, that the same is so established and open for public use.
4. From the passing of this Ordinance, no market shall be opened or kept open except under the provisions of this Ordinance; and every market which shall be opened or kept open otherwise than as aforesaid shall, together with the building or buildings (if any) wherein the same shall happen to be holden, be deemed a common nuisance.
420
ORDINANCES Nos. 8 AND 9 OF 1858.
Regulation of Chinese-Census.
Markets.
3. The lodging house-keeper shall cause the means of ventilation provided in or in connection with the house to be kept at all times in good order and efficient action.
4. The lodging house-keeper shall not suffer any room not licensed as a sleeping room to be used as such.
5. The lodging house-keeper shall cause all filth and refuse matters to be removed from his premises daily.
6. No person of the male sex above 10 years of age shall occupy the same sleeping room as persons of the female sex.
7. No person of the female sex above 10 years of age shall occupy the same sleeping room as persons of the male sex.
8. Rules 6 and 7 do not apply to married couples.
9. The house shall be at all time open to inspection by members of the Sanitary Board or any of its officers.
[See Ords. No 5
of 1867, and No. 3
1878.1
Repeal of Ordi- nauce No. 2 of 1854,
Governor in Council empow- ered to establish and close mark- ets, and to make regulations and bye-laws.
[* See Ordinance
No, 5 of 1837 s. 5.]
No market to be deemed estab- lished till notified in the Gazette.
Prohibition of other markets.
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No. 9 of 1858.
The Markets' Ordinance, 1858.
[31st May, 1858.]
E it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the
advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. Ordinance No. 2 of 1854 is hereby repealed.
2. All markets presently established within the district of Victoria * shall be sub- ject to this Ordinance; but it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor in Exe- cutive Council from time to time to close the same or any of them, and also to establish and continue or close any new market or markets within the said district, and to make such bye-laws for the letting of houses, shops, stalls, or standings therein, in any of the said markets, herein before specified, and the durations and conditions of such lettings, and the rents to be received for the same, and also for the good government of the said markets, the repression or prevention of disorder therein, and the protection of the traffic thereof, as to His Excellency in Council shall seem meet: Yet so as that no such bye-laws shall be contrary to this Ordinance, or capable of being enforced until the same shall have been in English and Chinese published in the Hongkong Government Gaz- ette, and, for the space of seven consecutive days, posted in all existing markets.
3. No new market shall be deemed to be established until after notification made by His said Excellency in Council, in the Hongkong Government Gazette, in English and Chinese, that the same is so established and open for public use.
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4. From the passing of this Ordinance, no market shall be opened or kept open except under the provisions of this Ordinance; and every market which shall be opened or kept open otherwise than as aforesaid shall, together with the building or buildings (if any) wherein the same shall happen to be holden, be deemed a common nuisance.
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