PLEASURE GROUNDS AND BATHING PLACES ORDINANCE

PLEASURE GROUNDS AND BATHING PLACES ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 173.

PLEASURE GROUNDS AND BATHING PLACES.

To regulate certain pleasure grounds, bathing places.. and
places of public resort.

[24th July, 1936.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pleasure
Grounds and Bathing Places Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'custodian' means any watchman, keeper or other person
employed by any public department in any pleasure
ground ' bathing place or place of public resort to which
this Ordinance for the time being applies.

3. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations
with reference to any pleasure ground, bathing place or place
of public resort, or any part thereof, for the time being in-
cluded in the Schedule, for the following purposes- . ,
(a)the preservation of order aiid the prevention of
nuisances therein ;
(b) the days and times of admission thereto
(c) restriction of access by the public thereto
(d) preservation of property therein ;
(e)the appointment of committees to manage the same,
their tenure of office, their powers and procedure and
the audit of their accounts ;
the provision, setting apart, maintenance and use
therein, subject to such conditions as the Governor
in Council may think fit, by clubs and others of-
(i) rifle range;
(ii) grounds, lawns, courts or greens for cricket,
football, tennis, hockey, bowls, golf, polo or other
games;
(iii) swimming baths or pools;
(iv) apparatus and equipment for the same;
(g)the construction, maintenance and regulation of
buildings, sheds, tents and other structures therein'.
(h) the payment of fees in relation thereto -,
(i) the expenditure of the revenue derived' therefrom
and
generally, for the purposes of this Ordinance.





(2) With respect to any bathing place or any part
thereof for the time being included in the Schedule such
regulations may provide-
(a)for fixing the limits within which persons shall
bathe;
(b)for preventing any indecent exposure of the persons
of the bathers;
(c)for regulating the distance at which boats and vessels
shall be kept from the seashore.

4. The Governor in Council shall have power to amend
the Schedule by order signified in the Gazette in any manner
whatsoever.

5. A copy of the regulations relating to any pleasure
ground, bathing place or place of public resort shall be kept
conspicuously exhibited either at the entrance thereto or
within the same.

6. Any custodian of a pleasure ground, bathing place
or place of public resort to which this Ordinance for the time
being applies may-
(a)eject and remove therefrom any person who within
his view commits a breach of any regulation relating
to such pleasure ground, bathing place or place of
public resort ;
(b)arrest the offender without a warrant and deliver
him into the custody of a constable or the officer in
charge of the nearest police station.
Nothing in this section shall prevent any such custodian,
if he knows or can ascertain the name and address of the
offender, from proceeding by summons under the Magistrates
Ordinance.

7. (1) The regulations made under section 3 may
provide that a breach of any. such regulation shall be an
offence and may prescribe penalties therefor : Provided that
no penalty so prescribed shall exceed a fine of one hundred
dollars and imprisonment for one month.
(2) Every person who assaults, resists or uses abusive
language to any custodian of a pleasure ground, bathing
place or place of public resort to which this Ordinance for
the time being applies in the execution of his duty shall upon
summary conviction be liable to a fine of two hundred and
fifty dollars and to imprisonment for three months.





SCHEDULE.

The Island of Hong Kong. Kowloon and New Territories

RECREATION GROUNDS.
The Albany Boundary Street Recreation
Caroline Hill Recreation Ground. Grounds.
Children's Playgrounds at- Children's Playgrounds at-
Blake Garden. Chatham Road.
Jardine's Corner. Cox's Road.
Magazine Gap Road. McPherson Playground, Yim
Plantation Road. Po Fong Street, Yaumati.
Southorn Playground, Middle Road.
Wanchai. Kowloon Tong-
The Chinese Recreation Ground. (a) Junction of Cumberland
Queen's Recreation Ground. Road and Essex
Sookunpoo Valley Recreation Crescent.
Ground. (b) Rutland Quadrant.
Wongneichong Recreation Tong Mi Road.
Ground. King George's Field.
King's Park Recreation Ground.
Public Square, Yaumati.

PLACES OF PUBLIC RESORT.
Blake Pier. Chatham Road Park (South).
Botanic Gardens. Peninsula Garden.
The Cenotaph. The area of Crown land at
Queen's Pier. Kowloon known as the Sung
Wong T'oi, (an area to be
demarcated).
Tsim Sha Tsui Wharf.
BATHING PLACES.
Big Chai Wan. Castle Peak Bay.
Big Wave Bay, Shek O. Castle Peak Road Beaches.
Deep Water Bay. Cheung Chau Island (Morning,
Island Bay, Shek O. Afternoon, Italian and Sardinia
Kennedy Town. Beaches).
Little Chai Wan. Clear Water Bay.
North Point. Junk Bay (South of a line drawn
Repulse Bay (Main, Middle and due east from the westernmost
South Beaches). point of Tiu Keng Wan but
Rocky Bay, Shek O. excluding the villages of Sheung
Stanley Bay. Lung Wan and Tin Ha).
Telegraph Bay. Lai Chi Kok (Kau Pa Kang).
Turtle Cove, Tytam. Nam Tau Sha Beach.
Tai Wan Bay (Hung Hom).
29 of 1936. 22 of 1950. 24 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. Power to make regulations. Schedule. [s. 3 cont.] Schedule. Power to amend Schedule. Exhibition of regulations. Powers of custodian. (Cap. 227). Offences and Penalties. 22 of 1950, Schedule.

29 of 1936. 22 of 1950. 24 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. Power to make regulations. Schedule. [s. 3 cont.] Schedule. Power to amend Schedule. Exhibition of regulations. Powers of custodian. (Cap. 227). Offences and Penalties. 22 of 1950, Schedule.

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