OFFENSIVE TRADES (N.T.) RULES

OFFENSIVE TRADES (N.T.) RULES

to contamination at the risk of the health of any person;
(d) any animal or bird so kept as to be a nuisance or dangerous to
the health of any person;
(e) any accumulation or deposit which is a nuisance or
dangerous to the health of any, person, except where
necessary for a business or manufacture and where a
magistrate is satisfied that it has not been kept longer than
necessary and that the best available means have been taken
to prevent injury to the public health ;
any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be
dangerous to the health of the inmates;
(g any work place, not being a factory or workshop within the
meaning of the Factories and Workshops Ordinance, which is
not kept in a cleanly state, properly ventilated, and free from
overcrowding.
For the purposes of this rule, 'premises' extends to and includes
vessels and boats.

2. On the application by summons of a Health Officer or Sanitary
Inspector, any magistrate may, if lie is satisfied that a nuisance exists or
has existed on any premises, require the owner or occupier of the
premises and the author of the nuisance to abate the nuisance within
such time as the magistrate considers reasonable; and whether the
nuisance has been abated or not before the making of the order, to
prevent the recurrence of the nuisance ; and without prejudice to the
generality of #he foregoing, to do or refrain from doing such things as
the magistrate deems necessary for the abatement and prevention of the
nuisance.

3. These regulations may be cited as the Nuisances Control (N.T.)
Regulations.

OFFENSIVE TRADES (N.T.) RULES.
(Cap. 97, section 4).
(Ordinance No. 34 Of 1910).
[10th September, 1948.]
1 . These rules may be cited as the Offensive Trades (N.T.) Rules.





2. These rules apply to and shall take effect within the New
Territories except New Kowloon.
3. In these rulesoffensive trade' includes
(a) the trades of blood-boiling, tripe-boiling, soapboiling, fat-
boiling, tallow-melting, resin-boiling, bone-boiling, bone-
crushing, bone-burning, bonestoring, rag-picking, rag-
storing, manure manufacture, blood-drying, fell-mongery,
leather-dressing, tanning, glue-making, size-making, gut-
scraping, storing, dressing, and preparing sharks' fins,
haircleaning, feather-storing, feather-cleaning, pigroasting
(except the roasting of pigs in any domestic building or
restaurant for consumption in such domestic building or
restaurant by the inmates or visitors thereof), the trades
of chromium-plating, wood-oil extraction, oil-burning for
the production of soot or lampblack, making chloride of
lime, commonly known as bleaching powder, crushing,
packing or dealing in any way with manganese ore or
manganese dioxide, and salting, drying, and/or storing for
wholesale purposes, of fish
(b) any trade, business or manufacture which is declared by
the District Commissioner by notice published in the
Gazette to be an offensive trade;
(c) any trade, business or manufacture which is carried on in
such a way as to be dangerous or injurious to the health
of persons engaged in it, or in such
a way as to be dangerous or injurious to the health
of persons residing in the neighbourhood; and
(d) any other noxious, offensive, noisome or unhealthy trade,
business or manufacture whatever.

4. No person shall establish or continue in an), part of the
New Territories any offensive trade except under and in
accordance with a licence granted him by the District
Commissioner.
5. Every such licence shall expire on the 31st day of
December and shall be for a period not exceeding one year. The
fee for such licence shall be $120 per annum : Provided that in the
case of any licence issued after the 31st of June in any year, only
half fee shall be payable.





6. (1) Every person who is desirous of establishing or
continuing any offensive trade within the New Territories shall
(a) in the first instance apply in writing to the District
Commissioner for permission to use the site selected for
the purpose of such trade; and
(b) at the same time submit an accurate plan to the
satisfaction of the District Commissioner of the site
intended to be used and of all buildings, structures and
outhouses thereon, and of the drainage thereof.
(2) Upon receipt of such application the District
Commissioner shall take such steps as fie may think fit to
ascertain whether any person living in the neighbourhood of such
intended site has any objection to the use of the intended site for
the purpose of such trade.
(3) The District Commissioner shall specify the time limit
within which objections shall be made to him. On the expiry of
such time limit no further objections shall be entertained.
(4) The District Commissioner may in his absolute discretion,
on being satisfied as to the suitability of the intended site and that
the objections received by him are without substance, issue the
required licence.
(S) No person shall at any time deviate from the plan
submitted under paragraph (b) of sub-rule (i) without the written
consent of the District Commissioner.
7. (1) Licences shall only be issued in respect of premises that
are substantially built, and adequately lighted, ventilated, and
drained to the satisfaction of the District Commissioner. The
ground surfaces of such premises shall be paved with good
cement concrete laid down at least six inches thick and the
surface thereof shall be rendered smooth and impervious with
asphalt, cement, or other material approved by the District
Commissioner. The interior surfaces of all walls, which must be
substantially built of brick or stone, as well as the surfaces of any
brick or stone supports of pans and other utensils, shall be
rendered smooth and impervious to the height of at least seven
feet with asphalt, cement or other material approved by the
District Commissioner.





(2) All such premises shall be provided to the satisfaction of the
District Commissioner with proper and adequate ablution, urinal and
privy accommodation for the use of persons working therein.

8. Every licensee shall cause all materials which have been received
upon the premises where his trade is carried on, and which are not
immediately required for use, to be stored in such manner and in such a
situation as to prevent the emission of noxious or injurious effluvia or
the spread of vermin therefrom.
9. Except with the permission in writing of the District
Commissioner no unsalted flesh-meat shall be brought into the premises
of a pig-roasting establishment or used therein except that which has
been slaughtered in a Government slaughterhouse or in a
slaughterhouse approved in writing by the District Commissioner, or
imported from Canada, Australia, or New Zealand or such other localities
as the District Commissioner shall from time to time approve.
10. Every licensee shall cause the internal surface of every wall
upon the premises where his trade is carried on to be thoroughly
cleansed and limewashed with hot limewash during the months of
January and July each year.

11. Every licensee shall, at the close of every day, cause all fat,
tallow, grease, refuse or filth which has been spilled or splashed or has
fallen or been deposited upon any, floor, pavement or wall of the
premises where his trade is carried on to be collected therefrom by
scraping or some other effectual method of cleansing and, unless it is
intended to be subjected to further trade processes on the premises, to
be removed forthwith from the premises. All apparatus must be kept in a
cleanly condition at all times.

12. Every licensee shall cause every part of the internal surface of
the walls, pavements, and floor of the premises to The kept at all times in
good order and repair so as to prevent the absorption therein of any
filth, refuse or noxious or injurious matter which may fall or be splashed
thereon.
13. No persons other than two caretakers in respect of each block
of buildings shall pass the night in any part of





the premises used in connexion with the trade. Where any part of
the premises is used for sleeping purposes such part shall be
partitioned off from the remainder of the premises to the
satisfaction of the District Commissioner, and no part of the trade
shall be carried on and no storage of raw materials or finished
products shall be permitted therein.
14. The. District Commissioner may by an order in writing
prohibit the occupation for domestic purposes of an), building in
which any offensive trade is carried on.

15. The District Commissioner may in his absolute discretion
exempt a licensee by endorsement on his licence from the
provisions of any of the above rules 8 to 14.
16. Every licensee shall at all times afford free access to the
District Commissioner and his Officers, and any Health Officer
or Health Inspector.
17. No person under the age of fourteen years shall be
permitted upon any, premises licensed for the carrying on of any
offensive trade.
18. The licensee shall cause a duly authenticated copy of
these rules in English and Chinese to be posted up in a prominent
position in his premises.
19. Any person who acts in Contravention of rules 4, 6 (5), 9,
10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17 and 15 shall upon summary conviction be liable
to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six
months.

CONSERVANCY (N.T.) RULES
(Cap. 97, section 4).
(Ordinance NO. 34 Of 1910).

1. These rules may be cited as the Conservancy (N.T.)
Rules and shall come into force on such day as the Governor in
Council shall notify in the Gazette.
* These rules are not yet in force.
[r. 1 cont.] (Cap. 59.) G.N.A. 223/48. G.N.A. 75/51. Citation.
Applicability of Rules. Interpretation. Licence necessary to carry on offensive trade. Term of licence.
Mode of applying for licence. Method of ascertaining suitability of site for the purpose of offensive trade. Time limit for objections. Issue of licence. Offence to deviate from plan. Requirements to be filfilled before a licence is granted.
Storage of materials. Use of meat. Limewashing. Daily cleaning. Repair of walls. Use for sleeping purposes.

[r. 1 cont.] (Cap. 59.) G.N.A. 223/48. G.N.A. 75/51. Citation.
Applicability of Rules. Interpretation. Licence necessary to carry on offensive trade. Term of licence.
Mode of applying for licence. Method of ascertaining suitability of site for the purpose of offensive trade. Time limit for objections. Issue of licence. Offence to deviate from plan. Requirements to be filfilled before a licence is granted.
Storage of materials. Use of meat. Limewashing. Daily cleaning. Repair of walls. Use for sleeping purposes.

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