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Section 5 prescribes the penalty for the unlawful ès- tablishment of Installations or the working of any apparatus for Wireless Telography without a licence and gives power to the proper authorities to search unlicensed premises or places and to seize any apparatus, found on any such un- icensed premises or places, which appears to be used or intended to be used for Wireless Telegraphy.
Under Section 6 the Governor-in-Council is given power to make regulations, prescribing the form and method of application for licences; the fees payable on the grant thereof; for regulating the working in the waters of the Colony of Wireless Telegraphy on board Merchant ships. so as to prevent the interference by such working with the Naval signalling or with the working of any lawfully established local Installation or with the transmission of Wireless messages between local stations and ships at sea; for prohibiting the working or using of Wireless Telegraphy on board a Merchant ship whilst such ship is in the har- bours of the Colony except under special or general permissiou and for prohibiting or regulating, in
any ex- ceptional emergency in which in the interests of the public service it is necessary that His Majesty's Government should assume complete control over the transmission of messages, the use of Wireless Telegraphy on board Merchant ships in the waters of the Colony. To the section is added a Proviso that the limiting or prohibitory regulations shall not apply to distress signals.
Under Section 7 special licences may be granted for experimental purposes.
Section 8 provides penalties for contravention of the provisions of the Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder or for breach of any conditions or restrictions upon which a licence has been granted.
Section 9 repeals the existing enactments.
JOHN A. BUCKNILL,
Attorney General,
Preamble.
Short title.
Construction
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documents
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A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to give effect to the change in the name and style of the office heretofore known as that of the Registrar General.
WHEREAS the Governor has been pleased to direct that the officer hitherto known as the "Registrar General" of this Colony shall be known as and styled the "Secretary for Chinese Affairs" AND WHEREAS it is expedient to give effect to such direction:
BE it therefore 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 Registrar General's (Change of Name) Ordinance, 1913,
2. Whenever, in any Ordinance, Order of the Governor- of Ordinance in-Council, Order of the Governor, Rule, Regulation, Minute, By-law, deed, contract, official letter, or other document, the expression "Registrar General" occurs and, in order to give effect to such Ordinance, Order-in-Council, Order of the Governor, Rule, Regulation, Minute, By-law, or other document as aforesaid, it is necessary to substitute the expression Secretary for Chinese Affairs", such Ordinance, Order-in-Council, Order of the Governor, Rule, Regulation, Minute, By-law and other document shall be read and construed accordingly.
Registrar General"
occurs.
Objects and Reasons,
It has been thought desirable to effect a change in the name of the office known as the 66 Registrar General ” which is in fact responsible for Chinese affairs and to designate the office by the more appropriate title of
Secretary for Chinese Affairs ".
JOHN A. BucknILL,
Attorney General.
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