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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 14, 1912.
No. 202.
Regulations made by the Officer Administering the Government- in-Council under Section 2 of the Advertisements Regulation Ordi- nance, 1912, (Ordinance No. 19 of 1912), on the 11th day of June, 1912.
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1. It shall not be lawful for any person by himself or by any bill-poster of section 6 employed by him to affix or otherwise exhibit any hoarding, notice board, or ch. 27. poster used for the purpose of advertising, upon or against private property without the.consent of the owner or his representative and of the occupier or upon or against Crown property without the consent in writing of the Captain Superin- tendent of Police or except by virtue of some other sufficient legal authority.
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2. (1.) It shall not be lawful for any person by himself or by any authorised of section 91- agent of his to erect or fix to or upon or in connection with any building, structure ch. 53. or erection of any kind any sky sign, and it shall not be lawful to retain any existing sky sign so erected or fixed for a longer period than three years after the confirmation of this regulation by the Legislative Council, nor during that period except with the licence of the Governor-in-Council, and in the event of such licence being granted then only for such period not exceeding three years from the said confirmation and under and subject to such terms and conditions as shall be therein prescribed.
(2.) There shall be paid for each such licence such fee as the Governor-in- Council may in each case prescribe.
(3.) A licence issued under this regulation shall become void in any of the following cases namely:-
(a.) if any addition to the sky sign be made except for the purpose of making it secure under the direction of an authorised architect (within the meaning of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903);
(b) if any change be made in the sky sign or any part thereof; (c.) if the sky sign or any part thereof fall either through accident,
decay, fire, tempest or any other cause whatever;
(d.) if any addition or alteration be made to or in the building, structure or erection on, over, or to which any sky sign is placed or at- tached if such addition or alteration involved the disturbance of the sky sign or any part thereof; or
(e.) if the building, structure or erection over or on or to which the sky sign is placed or attached become unoccupied or be demolished or destroyed.
(4.) For the purposes of this regulation "sky sign
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any word, letter, model, sign, device or representation in the nature of an advertisement, announcement or direction supported on or attached to any post, pole, standard, framework or other support wholly or in part upon over or above any building, structure or erection which, or any part of which, sky sign shall be visible- against the sky from some point in any public place in the Colony or in the waters thereof, and includes all and every part of any such post, pole, standard, framework or other support. The expression "sky sign" shall also include-
any balloon, parachute, search light, flash light or other similar device employed wholly or in part for the purposes of any advertisement or announcement on, over or above any building, structure or erection of any kind or on or over any public place in the Colony or in the waters thereof.
But it shall not include any flagstaff, pole, vane or weathercock unless adopted or used wholly or in part for the purpose of any advertisement or announcement.