Similar Ordinances
Other historical racially based zoning law in Hong Kong.
- Light and Pass Ordinance
- The law exclusively required Chinese residents to carry a lamp when passing at night. The law was believed originally established under the assumption that all Chinese residents of the colony were potential criminals.
- Peak District (Residence) Ordinance, repealed in 1946
- Cheung Chau (Residence) Ordinance, repealed in 1946
Other historical zoning laws in Hong Kong.
- European District Reservation Ordinance (April 1888)
- It applied to parts of the City of Victoria that already had European-style Single-family detached houses. The Ordinance was classified as a town planning and rent control law under Governor Des Vœux's administration. It required buildings in certain areas of Hong Kong to comply with the single-family detached home model, rather than the native, extremely crowded, Chinese model that land owners usually offered, which maximized profits. There was no exclusion by race, only by the type of buildings that could be built and a limit on the number of occupants.
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