LABOURERS' LINES (N.T.) RULES

LABOURERS' LINES (N.T.) RULES

LABOURERS' LINES (N.T.) RULES.
(Cap. 97, section 4).
(Ordinance No. 34 of 1910).

[15th October, 1937.]

1. In these rules-
'employer' includes every person who and every firm which
enters into a contract of personal service, written or verbal,
for any period of time with any labourer, and the agent of
such person or firm;
'health officer' means a health officer under the Public Health
(Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935 ;
labourer includes every person employed for the purpose of
personally performing any manual labour, except a domestic
servant, gardener or agricultural labourer ;
'lines' means any building or shed used or intended to be used
temporarily or permanently for the housing of labourers.

2. All lines shall be situated, erected and maintained
to the satisfaction of the Director of Medical and Health
Services and constructed of such materials as he may approve.
In this rule, 'erected and maintained' includes the provision
of such mosquito-proofing as the Director of Medical and Health
Services may in any case prescribe.

3. In all lines each labourer shall be allotted riot less than 35
square feer of habitable floor space and 350 cubic feet of
unobstructed air space not less than ten feet in height, and no
labourer shall be housed or permitted to sleep in any lines in
contravention of this rule.

4. (1) On the report of a health officer the Director of
Medical and Health Services may by notice in writing require any
employer to cleanse, disinfect, whitewash, demolish, remove,
alter, repair, enlarge or replace any lines in his control.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such
notice may prescribe-





(a) the time within which the requirement shall be fulfilled;
(b) the site to which the lines shall be removed;
(c) the nature of the alterations or repairs to be made or the
manner in which and the extent to which the lines shall
be enlarged or replaced;
(d) that no labourer, or not more than the number of
labourers stated in the notice, shall be permitted to
occupy the lines pending such demolition, removal,
alteration, repair, enlargement or replacement.

5. (1) The employer in control of any lines shall keep the lines
and a space of not less than 200 feet round the lines in such a
state as not to favour the breeding or harbouring of mosquitoes
and in particular shall therein
(a) keep the lines and space clear of empty tins and other
receptacles capable of retaining water and prevent the
accumulation of such receptacles except in a place
suitable for their disposal and in such manner that they
do not retain water;
(b) prevent the formation of pools containing water and any
excavation calculated to retain water;
(c) keep every cistern, water-butt or other receptacle used
for storing water clean and covered or protected in such
manner as to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes.
(2) On the report of a health officer the Director of Medical
and Health Services may by notice in writing require any
employer to take such action as may be specified in the notice,
within a stated time, to prevent the breeding or harbouring of
mosquitoes in or near any pond, tank, well, spring, seepage, drain,
stream, water-logged ground or swamp or other
collection of water on any land in the employer's control on which
any lines are erected, or on any unleased Crown land within 1,000
yards of any lines in his control.
(3) An appeal to the Governor in Council from any
requirement of the Director of Medical and Health Services
under this regulation shall lie within fourteen days of the date of
the notice.





6. Failure to comply with any requirement of the
Director ofand Health Services mentioned in rule 4
or 5 shall be a breach of these rules.

7. Every employer, his agents and servants,, shall allow any health
officer at any time to enter and inspect any lines or land and every part
thereof in the control of the employer.

8. Any notice authorized to be given under these rules may be
served by leaving it with some adult person at the lines in connexion
with which the notice is given, or at the employer's residence or
business address.

9. Any person who acts in contravention Of rules 2, 3, 6 and 7 shall
upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars or
to imprisonment for six months.
10. These rules may be cited as the Labourers' Lines (N.T.) Rules.

AUTHORIZED CEMETERIES AND PROHIBITED
BURIALS (N.T.) RULES.

(Cap. 97, section 4).
(Ordinance No. 34 Of 1910).
[26th October, 1923.]

1. The Governor in Council has set apart to be used as cemeteries
or urn cemeteries the following places
Cheung Chau Cemetery
Cheung Chau Chinese Christian Cemetery

Extension to the Cheung Chau Chinese Christian Cemetery
New Territories Castle Peak Christian Cemetery

Sai Kung Catholic Cemetery
Sung Him Tong Sung Chan Wui Kei Tuk Kau Fan Cheung
Regulations Fraser, vol. 2, p.640. G.N.A. 75/51. (15 of 1935.)
G.N.A. 75/51. Regulations Fraser, vol. 2, pp. 642, 643. G.N. 571/41. G.N. 407/47. G.N.A. 151/49. G.N.A. 41/50. G.N.A. 76/50. G.N.A. 75/51.

Regulations Fraser, vol. 2, p.640. G.N.A. 75/51. (15 of 1935.)
G.N.A. 75/51. Regulations Fraser, vol. 2, pp. 642, 643. G.N. 571/41. G.N. 407/47. G.N.A. 151/49. G.N.A. 41/50. G.N.A. 76/50. G.N.A. 75/51.

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