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Company shall provide testing circuits, etc.
Specified
exchanges to be provided.
TELEPHONE.
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repair all lines, cables, posts, attachments, plant and appliances necessary for the provision and maintenance of such service.
31.-(a) The Company shall establish, at its own cost, and keep in proper condition such number of testing cir- cuits as the Director may reasonably direct for the pur- pose of testing the insulation resistance of the conductors, and shall supply and keep in proper condition all such instruments for testing as the Director may approve, and shall supply energy to every testing station for the purpose of testing.
(b) The Company shall afford to the Director all faci- lities for inspection and testing of its works and for the reading, testing and inspection of its testing instru- ments, and may, on each occasion of the testing of its works or the reading, testing or inspection of any testing instruments, be represented by an agent who may be present but shall not interfere with the reading, testing or inspection,
(c) On the occasion of the testing of any works of the Company by the Director reasonable previous notice in writing thereof shall be given to the Company, and the testing shall be carried out at such suitable hours as in the opinion of the Director will least interfere with the telephone service and in such manner as the Director may think fit, but, except under the provisions of a written order made in each case in that behalf by the Director, no person shall be entitled to have access to or interfere with the works of the Company at any points other than those at which the Company itself has access to the same.
Provided that the Company shall not be held respon- sible for any interruption of or irregularity in the telephone service which may be occasioned by or required by the Director for the purpose of any such testing as aforesaid.
Provided also that the testing shall not be made in regard to any particular portion of the works oftener than once in any one year unless in pursuance of a written order made in each case in that behalf by the Director.
32. The Company shall, on and from the 1st day of July, 1925, take over, maintain and operate the existing telephone exchanges of the China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company Limited, and shall within three and
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a half years from the date of the commencement of this Ordinance or such other extended period as may be approved of by the Governor in Council and published in the Gazette, provide and equip to the satisfaction of the Director, in reinforced concrete and brick or similar fire resisting material, in locations suitable for the purpose at Victoria, the Peak District, in the neighbourhood of Quarry Bay, at Kowloou, New Kowloon and Taipo, suitable and adequate telephone exchanges, capable of expansion to meet the following requirements :—~
In the City of Victoria 10,000 Subscribers.
In the Peak District 500 Subscribers.
In the neighbourhood of Quarry Bay 1,000 Subscribers.
In Kowloon 10,000 Subscribers.
In the New Kowloon 1,000 Subscribers.
In the Taipo 500 Subscribers.
And the Company shall from time to time hereafter furnish such exchanges with all such fittings and apparatus as shall be necessary to meet the requirements of such respective areas.
The Company shall also, within such period of time as the Governor in Council may decide to be reasonable and after receipt of notice in that behalf from the Director provide and equip in like manner such further exchanges as the Director shall from time to time during tho continuance of the concession by notice in writing require, but such further exchanges need not exceed in number two in that part of the Island of Hongkong outside the boundaries of the City of Victoria and four in the New Territories. Each of such last mentioned exchanges shall be adequate for the requirements of the area concerned, and shall be capable of such expansion as shall appear to the Governor in Council to be reasonably necessary, shall be furnished from time to time by the Company with all such fitting and apparatus as shall be necessary for the requirements of the area concerned.
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33. The Company shall, within a reasonable time after Lines to be the receipt of a request in writing in that behalf from any provided on person, and upon the payment in advance of the Company's request. usual charges (if demanded), and the signature of the Company's usual form of agreement for an exchange line (if required), install a telephone in such building within
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