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Addition of
new section 29A.
Ord. No. 21/81
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY (AMENDMENT)
(2B) In any prosecution for an offence against any regulation made under subsection (2A), a plan purporting to be certified the general manager as a plan of a restricted area or as a copy a plan of a restricted area certified by the general manager, shall be admitted in evidence in proceedings before a court on its production without further proof and until the contrary is proved-
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(a) the court before which such certified plan or copy is produced shall presume that the signature to the plan or copy is genuine and that the general manager was duly appointed when he certified it;
(b) shall be conclusive proof of the area and boundaries of any part or parts of the railway delineated or described therein as a restricted area.".
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 29, the following-
"Operation
of through trains to China.
29A. (1) It shall be lawful for the general manager to do all things which may be necessary for the purpose of establishing a through train service between Hong Kong and The People's Republic of China and for this purpose he may-
(a) negotiate and conclude contracts with the Guangz- hou Railway Administration or other competent authority of The People's Republic of China;
(b) settle the time-tables and alter the same as may
from time to time be necessary;
(c) temporarily suspend the service either wholly or in
part;
(d) fix and alter as occasion may require the fares to be paid by passengers and to issue tickets for the same;
(e) fix the different rates payable for the carriage of various goods and to classify such goods and to alter such rates by either increasing or decreasing them as he may deem necessary from time to time; (f) do any other thing that may be necessary for the
operation of such through train service.
(2) (a) The Governor may give to the general manager such directions as he thinks fit with respect to the exercise or performance of his powers under this section, either generally or in any particular case.
(b) The general manager shall, in the exercise or performance of his powers given under this section, comply with any direction given by the Governor under paragraph (a).
(3) With regard to the through train service referred to in subsection (1), the provisions of this Ordinance and subsidiary legislation made hereunder shall apply to that service only to the extent that they are not inconsistent with any contract made with the Guangzhou Railway Administration or other competent authority of The People's Republic of China.".
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY (AMENDMENT)
Ord. No. 21/81
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4. Every act or thing done by the general manager before the Validation. mmencement of this Ordinance that would have been lawful if section A of the principal Ordinance had been in force at the time when it was done is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully done by him.
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 29th day of April 1981.
LORNA LEUNG,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
LORNA LEUNG,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.