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1056 [ 16 or 1888. ) EUROPEAN DISTRICT RESERVATION .
officer deputed by him for the purpose, to inspect such tene
ment, and any person in any way obstructing such inspection
shall be deemed to be acting in contravention of this ordinance.
Penalties.
5. Every person contravening any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be liable on summary conviction by a Magis
trate 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 contra
vention of this ordinance shall be deemed aa nuisance within the
meaning of Ordinance No. 8 of 1856 which nuisance may be
abated accordingly.
Existing 6. Nothing in this ordinance shall be held to prevent the
tenements ,
repairs, and
Chinese
owners of Chinese tenements now existing within the European
owners . District or Hill District froin repairing such tenements in accord
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1888.]
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 tenement in the
European District or Hill District.
Land in
7. This ordinance shall not apply to any land in the occupa
occupation of tion of the War Department but shall apply to any land now
ment.
in the occupation of the War Department whenever any such
land ceases to be in such occupation .
As to existing 8. Nothing contained in this ordinance shall be held to affect
practice of
submitting the right, which has hitherto been exercised by the Government,
plans to of forbidding the erection in any part of the Colony, ( whether
Surveyor
General.
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in the European District or Hill District or elsewhere) ofbuild
1888. ] ings 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 alter
ation of old ones for the approval of the Surveyor General , and
such right is hereby expressly declared to exist, and such
practice is declared to be obligatory.
Any person erecting any new buildings or making any sub
stantial alteration in any buildings already existing without the
approval of the Surveyor Generalinrespect 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 exceeding one hundred dollars
for each week subsequent to such conviction during which such
buildings remain in situ without the authorization of the Sur
veyor General as aforesaid.
Buildings for 9. Notwithstanding anything in this ordinance contained,
useful public
purpose other the Governor may, in his discretion, permit the erection within
than habita .
tion , the European District or Hill District of buildings of any type
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of architecture if he be satisfied that they are intended for a
useful public purpose, other than habitation .