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Power to . authorize entry and

No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG : [A.D, 1801 (4.) any stable, cow-house, pig-sty, or other premises for the use animals which is in such a condition as to be injurious to health (5.) any accumulation or deposit of stagnant water, sullage-water manure, dirt, house-refuse, or other matter, wherever situated which is unhealthy;

(6.) any noxious matter or waste waters flowing or discharged from any premises, wherever situated, into any public street or road, or into the gutter or side-channel of any street or road, or into any nullah or water-course or the bed thereof;

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(7.) any manufacture, trade, or business of a noxious, noisome, for

unhealthy nature;

(8.) any cemetery or place of burial so situated or so conducted as to

be unhealthy;

(9.) any chimney (not being the chimney of a private dwelling house) sending forth black smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance

and

(10.) any act, omission, or thing which is or may be dangerous to life

or injurious to health or property.

24.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Board, on reasonable presumption of the existence of a nuisance on any premises, by an order in writing, inspection of to authorize any officer, with an assistant or assistants, to enter such premises, at any time between six o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening, and to inspect the same.

premises with reference to nuisance.

Penalty for refusing

admittance to

inspecting

officer.

Service of

notice requir-

of nuisance.

(2.) The inspecting officer shall produce and show the order to any person being or claiming to be the occupier of such premises: Provided that the inspecting officer shall not enter any house upon any land which may be occupied at the time, except with the consent of the occupier thereof, without previously giving the said occupier six hours' notice in writing of his intention to do so.

25. Every person who refuses admittance to the said inspecting officer, after such notice has been given, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

26. On the receipt of any information respecting the existence of a ing abatement nuisance, the Board shall, if satisfied of the existence of a nuisance, serve a notice on the person by whose act, default, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues, or, if such person cannot be found, on the owner or occupier of the premises on which the nuisance arises, requiring him to abate the same within a time to be specified in the notice, and to execute such works and do such things as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided-

(1.) that where the nuisance arises from the want or the defective

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