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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH JUNE, 1883.
Provision as to yas and water
Companies
&c.
surplus paving, metalling or material not used for any of the purposes in this section mentioned shall be the property of the Company, and shall be removed by them. 20. For the purpose of making, forming, laying down, maintaining, renewing, altering, adding to, or removing any of their Tramways, the Company may, from time to time where it is necessary or appears expedient for the purpose of preventing frequent interruption of the traffic by repairs or works in connection with the same, alter the position of any mains or pipes for the supply of gas or water, or any tubes, wires, or apparatus for telegraphic or other purposes, subject to the following restrictions, that is to say:
(1.) Before the Company shall alter the position of any such mains or pipes, tubes, wires or ap- paratus they shall obtain the written assent of the Surveyor General to such alteration. (2.) Before laying down a Tramway in a road in which any mains, or pipes, tubes, wires or appa- ratus may be laid, the Company shall, whether they contemplate altering the position of any such mains or pipes, tubes, wires or apparatus or not, give seven days' notice to the Company, persons or person to whom such mains, or pipes, tubes, wires or apparatus may belong, of their intention to lay down or alter the Tramway, and shall at the same time deliver a plan and section of the proposed work. If it shall appear to such other Company, persons, or person that the con- struction of the Tramway as proposed would endanger any such main or pipe, tube, wire or apparatus, or interfere with, or impede the sup- ply of water or gas, or the telegraphic or other communication, such other Company, persons or person may give notice to the Company to lower, or otherwise alter the position of the said mains or pipes, tubes, wires or apparatus in such manner as may be considered necessary; and any diffe- rence as to the necessity of any such lowering or alteration shall be settled in manner provided by this Ordinance for the settlement of differences between the Company and other Companies or persons; and all alterations to be made under this section shall be made with as little detriment and inconvenience to such other Company or persons or person as the circumstances will admit and under the superintendence of such other Company, persons or person, or of their, or his Surveyor or Engineer.
(3.) The Company shall not remove or displace any,
of the mains or pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires or apparatus, or other works belong- ing to any such other Company, persons or per- son, or do anything to impede the passage of water or gas, or the telegraphic or other commu- nication into, or through such mains or pipes valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires or apparatus, without the consent of such other Company, persons or person, or in any other manner than such other Company, persons or person shall approve, until good and sufficient mains, pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires or apparatus, and other works necessary or proper for continu- ing the supply of water, or gas, or telegraphic or other communication, as sufficiently as the same was supplied by the mains or pipes, valves, syphons, pings, tubes, wires or apparatus proposed to be removed or displaced, shall, at the expense of the Company, have been first made and laid down in lieu thereof and be ready for use, to the reason- able satisfaction of the Surveyor or Engineer of such other Company, persons or person or, in case of disagreement between such Surveyor or En- gineer and the Company, in such manner as the Surveyor General, or other fit and proper person specially appointed by the Governor in Council,
shall direct.
(4.) The Company shall not lay down any such mains or pipes, valves, syphons, plugs, tubes, wires or apparatus contrary to the regulations of any Ordinance relating to water, gas, or other Companies, or to telegraphs.