THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 14, 1938.
HONG KONG.
L.S.
No. 1 of 1938.
1 assent.
G. A. S. NORTHCOTE, Governor.
14th April, 1938.
An Ordinance to make provision for the periodical examina-
tion of Gasholders.
[14th April, 1938.]
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 Gasholders Short title. Examination Ordinance, 1938.
2. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations Power for the periodical examination of gasholders.
(2) The regulations in the Schedule shall be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance and shall be in force, except so far as they may be rescinded, suspended, added to or amended by regulations made by the Governor in Council under sub-section (1).
of the
Governor in Council to make
regulations. Schedule.
regulations.
3. If the proprietors of any gasholder in the Colony Penalty for wilfully fail to carry out any requirement of any regulation breach of made under this Ordinance they, and where the proprietors are a corporation every director and manager thereof, shall be severally liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Power of
Governor in Council to
declare a
unfit for
4. The Governor in Council may at any time call upon the proprietors of any gasholder in the Colony to show cause why the said gasholder should not be declared unfit for use. If on being so called upon the proprietors fail to show such gasholder cause to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, the use. Governor in Council may by Order declare the gasholder unfit for use; and if, whilst such order remains unrevoked, the gasholder is used to hold gas the proprietors, and where the proprietors are a corporation every director and manager thereof, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 13th day of April, 1938.
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B. C. K. HAWKINS,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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