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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 300.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 31st July, 1930:-
C.S.O.
[No. 11-30.7.30.---4.]
A BILL
Short title.
Amendment
No. 9 of
1925, s. 2.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Telephone Ordi-
nance, 1925.
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 Telephone Amendment Ordinance, 1930.
2. Section 2 of the Telephone Ordinance, 1925, of Ordinance hereinafter called the principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion in the interpretation of the word Undertaking" immediately after the word “ goods", in the first line thereof of the words trunk line apparatus and cables".
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 9 of 1925, s. 3.
Amendment
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3. Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion immediately after the word "Colony in the fourth line of sub-section (1) of that section of the words “including trunk line telephonic communi- cation therein for communicating with places outside the Colony".
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4. Section 33 of the principal Ordinance is of Ordinance amended by the insertion immediately after the word charges in the fourth line thereof of the words "and of any other moneys due under this Ordinance from such person to the Company".
No. 9 of 1925, s.
33.
Insertion of
new section 33A
in Ordinance No. 9 of 1925,
Insertion of
5. The following new section is inserted immediately after section 33 of the principal Ordinance :-
Connection 33A. Whenever a system of wireless of company's
telephony is established in the Colony, the telephony system with
company shall permit its system of tele- wireless phony to be connected therewith on such telephony
terms as the Governor in Council after dis- system.
cussion with the company shall consider reasonable. Provided always that nothing in this section shall be construed as impos- ing on the company any liability to have its system of telephony connected with more than one system of wireless telephony established in the Colony at any one time.
6. The following new sections are inserted immedi- new sections ately after section 34 of the principal Ordinance
34A and 34B
in Ordinance Removal of No. 9 of lines and 1925.
instruments on change of address.
34A. In the event of any subscriber having changed or being about to change his address and requiring his telephone or line to be removed from one place, office, or address to another or requiring the installation of a line and apparatus of a similar
type
at his new address then upon his notifying the Company of such his desire and upon payment of the charges in respect thereof set out in the Schedule the Company shall, subject to the pro- visions of section 33 carry out such re- moval or installation as aforesaid. In addition to the charges mentioned in this section and the rates of subscription men- tioned in section 34 the Company shall be