Ordinances

OF THE

GOLD COAST COLONY.

Vol. II.

Gold Ceast (Calory) _ awa-talites, at..
statites. Co pilations

Ordinances

OF THE

GOLD COAST COLONY

WITH AN

APPENDIX

CONTAINING RULES UNDER ORDINANCES, ORDERS IN COUNCIL, ETC.;

ORDERS OF THE QUEEN IN COUNCIL; LETTERS PATENT,

AND VARIOUS ACTS OF PARLIAMENT IN FORCE IN THE COLONY;

AND AN INDEX.

Prepared under the Authority of "The Reprint of Statutes Ordinance, 1896,"

BY

SIR WILLIAM BRANDFORD GRIFFITH,

CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE GOLD COAST COLONY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED,

119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE,

Law Publishers.

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Rec. Dec. 27, 1904.

Ordinances

OF THE

GOLD COAST COLONY.

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TOWNS AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

Ordinance No. 13 of 1892.

AN ORDINANCE for better regulating Towns and promoting
the Public Health.*
[4th November, 1892.

BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Gold Coast
Colony, with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council thereof, as follows:-

I. PRELIMINARY.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Towns Ordi- Short title. nance, 1892."

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise Definitions. requires,

"Health officer," "peace officer," "Director of Works,"

and "writing" have the same meanings as in the
Criminal Code;

"Street" includes any public way, alley or passage,
(whether a thoroughfare or not,) the sea-beach,
and any open space;

"Town" means any place to which this Ordinance

for the time being applies.

3.-(1.) This Ordinance applies to the following Application places:

In Accra District,-Accra, Christiansborg, Labadi,

Teshi, Victoriaborg;

In Ada District,-Ada, Big Ada;

When a town council is established, see sect. 38 of No. 17 of 1894.

of Ordinance.