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THE HONGKONG GOVT. GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 9TH DEC., 1891.
Penalty for injuring
lights, &c.
(Ibid.
Mac. 35.)
Sections 32, 33 and 34 to
apply to Gap Rock Lighthouse. (No.35 of 1889.)
Harbour
Master may
prohibit false lights.
(No. 8 of 1879, s. 36.)
If not obeyed, he may abate such lights. (Ibid. sub-s. 2.)
[See Ord. No. 8. of 1873.]
Vessels and buildings to be provided for storage of gunpowder. (Ibid, sec. 37.)
To be termed Government depot for the storage of gunpowder. (Ibid.sub-s. 2.)
who shall refuse to have his ship measured to ascertain her burden in tons, or who shall obstruct any person in the duties of his office, shall be liable to a penalty not exceed- ing two hundred dollars.
Damage to Lights, Buoys and Beacons. 34. If any person wilfully or negligently commits any of the following offences, that is to say :-
(a.) Injures any lighthouse, or the lights exhibited therein, or any buoy or beacon, or any cables wires or other apparatus in connection there with.
(b.) Removes, alters, or destroys any lightship, buoy, or beacon, or any cables wires or other apparatus in connection therewith.
(c.) Rides by, makes fast to, runs foul of, any light- ship, or buoy, or any cables wires or other ap- paratus in connection therewith. He shall, in addition to the expenses of making good any damage so occasioned, incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
Gap Rock Lighthouse.
35. The powers and provisions contained in sections 32 33 and 34 of this Ordinance in respect of Lighthouses Buoys beacons, cables wires or other apparatus in connec- tion therewith and dues within the Colony shall equally apply to the lighthouse now in course of erection upon an island commonly known as The Gap Rock, situate about twenty-eight miles from the Colony, within the Dominions of the Emperor of China, and any cables wires and other apparatus for the purpose of telegraphic or other communi- cation in connection therewith.
Prevention of False Lights.
36. (1). Whenever any fire or light is burnt or ex- hibited at such place, or in such manner, as to be liable to be mistaken for a light proceeding from a lighthouse, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to serve a notice upon the owner of the place where the fire or light is burnt or exhibited, or on the person having charge of such fire or light, either personally, or by delivery at the place of abode of such owner or person, or by affixing the same in some conspicuous spot near to such fire or light, and by such notice to direct such owner or person, within a reasonable time to be therein specified, to take effectual means for the extinguishing or effectually screening such existing light; and for the preventing for the future any similar fire or light, and any owner or person disobeying such notice, shall be deemed guilty of a common nuisance, and in ad- dition to any other penalties or liabilities of any kind thereby incurred, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to six months' imprisonment with or without hard labour.
(2.) If any owner or person served with such notice, as aforesaid, neglects for a period of twenty-four hours to ex- tinguish or effectually screen, the light or fire therein men- tioned, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master, by his servants or workmen, to enter into the place wherein the same may be, and forthwith to extinguish such fire or light doing no unnecessary damage; and all expenses in- curred by the Harbour Master in such extinction, may be recovered from such person or owner as aforesaid in the same way as penalties are hereby declared to be recover- able.
CHAPTER III.
IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES." 37. (1.) The Governor is hereby empowered to pro- vide, at the expense of the Colony, all necessary vessels and buildings for the storage of gunpowder, or other explosives and no gunpowder or other explosives arriving in this Colony shall be stored in any other building or vessel except as provided by sub-section 10 and subject to the observance of the rules and regulations to be made under sub-section 12 of this section.
(2.) Such vessels or buildings shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be termed a Government Depôt or Govern- ment Depôts for the storage of gunpowder, and shall be under the control and management of the Harbour Master, subject to such orders as may, from time to time, be re- ceived from the Governor; and such vessels or buildings shall be fitted and manned in such manner as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, shall deem expedient.