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C.S.O. 571/20. Part II.
[No. 8-19.6.26.-1.]
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Peak Tramway
Ordinance, 1883.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Peak Tramway Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1926.
of Ordinance
2. Paragraph (b) of section 2 of the Peak Tramway Amendment Ordinance, 1883, is repealed, and the following para- No. 2 of 1885, graph is substituted therefor :-
(b) The company" means the Peak Tramways
Company Limited.
s. 2.
No. 2 of 1883, s. 13.
3. Section 13 of the Peak Tramway Ordinance, 1883, Ancudment is repealed and the following section is substituted of Ordinance therefor :-
Motive power, etc.
nery,
13. The carriages, motive power, machi- and apparatus of any kind whatsoever, used on or for the tramway shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, and no carriage, motive power, machinery, or apparatus, which has been disapproved by the Governor in Council shall be used on or for the tramway.
4. Section 16 of the Peak Tramway Ordinance, 1883, is amended as follows:-
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 2 of 1883,
(1) the words "Subject to the provisions of this 16. Ordinance" in the first line of sub-section
(1) are repealed;
(2) the proviso to paragraph (f) of sub-section
(1) is repealed;
(3) the words "Subject to this Ordinance
in
the first line of sub-section (2) are repealed and the words "Subject to the previous approval of the Governor in Council" are substituted therefor;
(4) sub-section (3) is repealed.
5. Section 17 of tlie Peak Tramway Ordinance, 1883, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :---
Penalties for breaches of rules and by-laws.
17.-(1) If the company or any other person contravenes any of the provisions of any rule made under section 16 (1), the company, or such other person as the case may be, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or, in the case of a continu- ing offence to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for each day during which the offence shall have continued: Provided that any such rule may prescribe lower maximum penalties than the maximum penalties speci- fied above.
(2) If any person contravenes any of the provisions of any by-law made under section 16 (2), he shall upon summary conviction
Amendment of Ordinance
No. 2 of 1883, S. 17.