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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1937.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 872.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 55 of 1936. (LIGHTING CONTROL).
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Lighting Control Ordinance, 1936, the Governor in Council makes the following regulations, by way of practice for an occasion of emergency or public danger, by express command:-
TEMPORARY REGULATIONS.
1. These regulations shall be in force during the whole period between the hours of 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thurs- day, the 9th day of December, 1937.
2. All lights, whether public or private, which, if unobscured, would be visible from the air, from the harbour or from the sea or from any navigable waters, must be extinguished, or, in the case of indoor lights, obscured so as to be invisible from outside and all other lights in the neigh- bourhood of any water front must be so masked as to prevent, as far as practicable, the reflection of their light upon the
water:
Provided that this regulation shall not apply to lights on vehicles or to indispensable navigation, railway or dock lights, or to any light which is approved by a competent naval or military authority.
3. Save as elsewhere provided by these regulations, all external lamps, flares and fixed lights of all descriptions (including sky signs, illuminated fascias, illuminated lettering and outside lights of all descriptions used for advertising or for the illumination of shop fronts) and all aggregations of lights, whether public or private, must be extinguished, except such public lamps as in the opinion of the Inspector General of Police are necessary for safety and any other lights approved by him.
All lights which are not extinguished must be reduced to the minimum intensity consistent with safety and shaded or obscured so as to render them invisible from above and to cut off direct light in all directions above the horizontal.
4. In factories, shops, hotels, institutions, dwelling houses, buildings and premises of all descriptions inside lights must be so shaded or reduced or the windows, skylights and glass doors so screened by shutters or dark blinds or curtains, etc. that no more than a dull subdued light is visible from any direction outside the premises.