Continued validity of ship station licences.
Ordinance No. 11 of 1926.
Repeal of
Ordinances
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be paid to any person who has given such information as has led to the conviction of the offender or offenders, or if there are more than one such person may direct such part to be divided amongst them in such proportion as he may direct.
37. All ship station licences issued under the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1926, shall, notwithstanding the repeal of that Ordinance, continue in full force and validity until terminated by effluxion of time or by cancellation or in some other lawful manner.
38. The Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894, the Telegraphic Messages Amendment Ordinance, 1924, and the 1894, No. 12 Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance. 1926, and all Regulations
made thereunder, are repealed.
of 1924 and
No. 11 of
1926.
Regulations. Schedule.
Regulations to be laid before Legislative Council.
Application of Regula- tions of Madrid Convention.
Commence- ment.
Exemptions. Ordinances No. 9 of
1925, No. 9
of 1930 and
No. 14 of
1935.
39.-(1) The Regulations in the Schedule shall be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance and shall be in force until altered, rescinded or amended by the Governor in Council.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Cazette of the making thereof; and if a resolution is passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
40. Save in so far as they are repugnant to any regula- tions made under this Ordinance, the Telegraph Regulations (Final Protocol), the General Radiocommunication Regulations (Final Protocol) and the Telephone Regulations annexed to the International Telecommunication Convention of Madrid, 1932, shall be in force in the Colony, so far as they are applicable thereto, as if such Regulations had been made. under the authority of this Ordinance.
41. This Ordinance shall come into operation on such date as may be fixed by proclamation of the Governor.
42.--(1) The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to the case of any telegraph erected or maintained by the Naval, Military or Air Force Authorities or to the concession granted by Ordinance to the Hong Kong Telephone Company Limited.
(2) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to authorise the placing or maintenance of any telegraph line under, over, along or across, or of any telegraph posts in or upon, any immovable property, which is vested in or under the control of the Naval, Military or Air Force Authorities, without the previous consent of the authorities concerned.
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