The Colony's existing substantive law governing the topic of newspapers, printers, publishers, and printing presses, has also been amended, and consolidated by the Control of Publications Consolidation Ordinance, 1951, as has also the law relating to the telephone service of the Colony by the Telephone Ordinance, 1951.
The Emergency (Registration of British Subjects) Regulations, promulgated in January of this year, have now been followed by the Compulsory Service Ordinance, 1951, which came into force in September, and which makes provision for compulsory service, with certain exceptions, by citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, resident in Hong Kong, in the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force, the Special Constabulary, or the Essential Services Corps, recruitment for which had previously been on a voluntary basis.
The two main plans for land reclamation, that at Causeway Bay and Connaught Road Central, have necessitated the passing of three Ordinances this year. The Public Works (Causeway Bay) Ordinance, 1951, and the Public Reclamation and Typhoon Shelter (Causeway Bay) Ordinance, 1951, make it possible to commence reclaiming the existing typhoon shelter of approximately fifty-seven acres at Causeway Bay, and to construct a new shelter of an area of approximately sixty- five acres to the north of the land reclaimed. The first Ordinance authorizes the construction of a breakwater approximately 1,650 feet in length, approximately 810 feet north of and parallel to the existing breakwater, approximately 1,440 feet long which forms the northern The second boundary of the typhoon shelter in Causeway Bay. Ordinance authorizes the actual reclamation of the area of the existing The third typhoon shelter and the construction of the new shelter. Ordinance, namely the Public Reclamation and Piers Ordinance, 1951, authorizes the reclamation of approximately 388,000 square feet abutting Connaught Road Central, and the construction of a public pier approximately 80 feet long and 200 feet wide, and a ferry pier approximately 360 feet long and 350 feet wide, these piers to be placed on the seaward face of the proposed reclamation.
The Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third Party Risks) Ordinance 1951, has introduced into the Colony a much needed addition to the Before the enactment existing legislation governing motor vehicles.
of this Ordinance a person who was entitled to recover damages as a result of personal injury caused by another's negligent driving might in fact have been unable to do so, owing to that person's lack of means to satisfy any judgment obtained against him; and therefore the primary object of this Ordinance is to compel, in some degree, owners and users of motor vehicles to take out insurance against the liability to pay compensation to other persons (third parties) which may arise in
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