TELEPHONE.
No. 9 of 1925.
1639
"Company" means "Hong Kong Telephone Company Limited";
"Concession" means sole right to supply telephonic communication which is granted to the company by this Ordinance;
"Director" means the Director of Public Works or his duly authorized representative;
"Person" includes any person, firm, company or corporation;
"Peak District" includes all that area in the Island of Hong Kong situated above the 700-feet contour and to the west of a line drawn in a north and south direction through Middle or Cemetery Gap, including the hills known as Mount Cameron, Mount Gough, Mount Kellett and Victoria Peak;
"Street" includes any square, court or alley, highway, lane, road or passage whether a thoroughfare or not;
"Subscriber" means subscriber to a telephone of the company;
"Undertaking" includes all works, goods, trunk line apparatus and cables and property of whatever nature belonging to the company.
3. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained the Government grants to the company the sole right to supply and operate public telephonic communication within the Colony, including trunk line telephonic communication therein for communicating with places outside the Colony, for the period of fifty years commencing on and from the 1st day of July, 1925. Such trunk line telephonic communication shall include a right to establish and maintain intercommunication with any commercial radio telephony station outside the Colony but this right shall be limited to the period during which intercommunication of the same or like kind or nature is not provided through or by some undertaking or service carried on or authorized by the Government of the Colony or by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.
* As amended by No. 14 of 1935 [22.3.35] and Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.