THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1939.
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No. 825.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 55 of 1936.
(LIGHTING CONTROL).
The Governor in Council has been pleased to direct and it is hereby directed-
That Friday, the 22nd of September, 1959, shall be an occasion for experiment or practice in lighting control by express command and that on that day and until 2 a.m. on the following morning the regulations made under the above Ordinance published as G.X. No. 565 in the Government Gazette of the 14th July, 1939, as subsequently amended by G.N. No. 824 of 1939 shall be in force;
And it is also further Directed-----
That the exemption contained in Regulation 19 relating to an occasion of an experiment or practice in lighting control as regards navigation and riding lights on ships and vessels under way or when anchored or moored to a buoy and navigation lights on aircraft and at aerodromes shall be suspended on the said day as from the sounding of an AIR RAID WARNING and during a BLACKOUT.
T. MEGARRY,
Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
19th September, 1939.
NOTE: The effect of these lighting control regulations as regards
lights on ships, aircraft and at aerodromes is as follows:
1. Ships and vessels tied or moored to a jetty or wharf must not carry lights of any kind during the hours of darkness ou an einergency or during an occasion of experiment or practice.
2. Navigation lights and riding lights on ships and vessels under way or when anchored or toored to a buoy and navigation lights on aircraft and lights on aerodromes may be lighted during an emergency and on an occasion of experiment or practice but these must be extinguished within 3 minutes of the sounding of an Air Raid Warning and must not be lighted during a Blackout.
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