TRAMWAY.
Protection of Government or telegraph Cables or lines.
Rights of departments, etc., to open roads.
with such notice all necessary particulars relating thereto, nor until the Director of Public Works has signified his written approval of the same, unless he does not signify his approval, disapproval or other directions within fourteen days after service of the said notice and particulars as aforesaid; and the company shall comply with the directions of the Director of Public Works in the execution of the said works, and shall provide by new, altered or substituted works, in such manner as the Director of Public Works may require, for the proper protection of and for preventing injury or impediment to the sewers, drains, water-courses, subways, sewerage or drainage hereinbefore referred to by or by reason of the tramway, and shall save harmless the Director of Public Works against the expense occasioned thereby; and all such works shall be done by or under the superintendence of the Director of Public Works at the cost and expense of the company, and when any new, altered or substituted works are completed by or at the cost or expense of the company under this Ordinance, the same shall thereafter be as completely under the control of the Director of Public Works, and be maintained by him, as any other sewers, drains, water-courses, subways, sewerage or drainage.
21. If any cable or line used for the purpose of telegraphic, telephonic or electric signalling communication, now or hereafter to be constructed and worked in the Colony by a Government department, by Cable and Wireless Limited or by the Great Northern Telegraph Company Limited, or any aerial or subterranean line connected with any such cable, or the sheathings, coverings or supports of any such cable or line, be injuriously affected by the construction or working of the undertaking, or by electrolysis or other cause arising or resulting from the undertaking, the company shall pay the expenses of all such alterations in or additions to such cable, line, sheathings, coverings or supports as may be necessary to remedy such injurious affection. For the purposes of this section a cable or line shall be deemed to be injuriously affected if telegraphic, telephonic or electric communication by means of such cable or line is, whether through induction or otherwise, in any manner affected by any act or work of the company.
22. Nothing in this Ordinance shall take away or abridge any power to open or break up any road along or across which
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.