THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 22, 1935.

HONG KONG.

No. 14 of 1935.

1 assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

22nd March, 1935.

An Ordinance to amend further the Telephone Ordinance,

1925.

[22nd March, 1935.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Telephone Amend- Short title ment Ordinance, 1935.

for section

2. Sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Telephone Ordin- Substitution ance, 1925, as amended by section 3 of the Telephone (1) of Amendment Ordinance, 1930, is repealed and the following Ordinance sub-section is substituted :—

No. 9 of 1925 as amended by

No. 9 of

3. (1) Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained section 3 the Government grants to the Company the sole right to of Ordinance supply and operate public telephonic communication within 1930. the Colony, including trunk line telephonic communication therein for communicating with places outside the Colony, for the period of 50 years commencing on and from the 1st day of July, 1925. Such trunk line telephonic com- munication shall include a right to establish and maintain inter-communication with any commercial Radio Telephony Station outside the Colony but this right shall be limited to the period during which inter-communication of the same or like kind or nature is not provided through or by some under- taking or service carried on or authorised by the Government of the Colony or by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom

rights of

3. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed Saving of to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or the Crown Successors, or of any bodies politic or corporate, or other and of persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and other those claiming by, from or under them.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 21st day of March, 1935.

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R. A. C. NORTH,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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