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Firing signals.
Offences
(3) Such Officer shall also cause to be published notice of intending practice firing and of the Firing Areas affected in the Gazette of the week preceding that in which the firing is to take place and shall supply copies of such notice to the persons enumerated in the Second Schedule, not less than forty-eight hours before the firing commences.
(4) Such notice shall contain warnings to masters of vessels or pilots of aircraft exempt from the operation of this Ordinance under section 10, to assist the carrying out of the firing practice by hastening through the Firing Area affected or by consenting to be towed out of such area, if necessary, by any vessel acting under the orders of the local Military Authorities.
5.-(1) Notice that firing is taking place in any of the Firing Areas shall be given by the hoisting or display of the following signals—
A. In respect of firing by day---
(a) by red flag flown by the battery concerned.
(b) (i) For Firing Area A, by a red flag, with below it the International Code Flag "A", flown from Lyemun Typhoon Signal Mast.
(ii) For Firing Area B, by a red flag, with below it the International Code Flag "B", flown from Lyemun and Waglan Typhoon Signal Masts.
(iii) For Firing Area C, by a red flag flown from Aberdeen and Stanley Typhoon Signal Masts.
(iv) For Firing Area D, by a red flag flown from Aberdeen, Cheung Chau and Green Island Typhoon Signal Masts.
(v) For Firing Area E, by a red flag flown from Green Island Typhoon Signal Mast.
(c) by a large red flag on the Range Target Towing Vessel. The display of this flag is a signal that the target is ready to be, or is being, fired at.
B. In respect of firing by night—-
(a) by a red lamp hoisted at the battery concerned.
(b) by the appropriate signal referred to in paragraph A, sub-paragraph (b) of this sub-section.
(2) The signals in respect of firing by day shall be hoisted or displayed two hours before firing is due to
commence.
The signals referred to in respect of firing by night shall be hoisted or displayed two hours before sunset.
Signals shall remain hoisted or displayed until firing has ceased, when they shall at
be hauled down or extinguished.
once
6. While notice that firing is taking place over any of while Firing the Firing Areas is given by the hoisting or display of the displayed. signals as provided in section 5, then in respect of the areas
Signals are
affected by the said notice--
(i) No person shall enter or remain within the area, nor bring, take suffer to remain therein any vessel, aircraft or thing, except as provided in section 10.
or
(ii) No vessel shall be employed in fishing in the area. (iii) No pleasure boat shall cruise in the area.
(iv) No vessel shall anchor or remain anchored in or ground on the area.
(v) No aircraft shall alight on, remain in or travel upon the area.
(vi) In the event of any vessel or aircraft being from any cause within the area, the Master or Pilot or other person in charge thereof shall use his utmost endeavours to pass out of the area without loss of time.
7. No person shall trawl, dredge or search for or other Offences and wise interfere with any shot, shell or other projectile or provisions
relating to portions thereof within any of the Firing Areas, or take or the recovery retain, or be in possession of, any such shot, shell or other of pro-
jectiles. projectile, or portions thereof, found within any of such
areas.
Any person who, when trawling, dredging, or in any manner whatsoever, shall come into possession of any such shot, shell or other projectile, or any portion thereof, within any of the areas, shall not retain it, but shall immediately return it in its existing condition, and without tampering with it, into the water:
Provided, nevertheless, that the provisions of this section shall not apply in cases of persons who recover projectiles under written instructions from the local Naval or Military Authorities.
8.—(1) Any person doing anything prohibited by or Penalty for otherwise contravening sections 6 or 7 shall be deemed to commit an offence against this Ordinance.
(2) If any person commits an offence against this Ordinance he shall be liable, on summary conviction before
a magistrate, to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and may be removed by any Officer authorised by section 9 from the areas to which the Ordinance applies, and taken into custody without warrant, and brought before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law, and any vessel or thing found in the areas in contravention of this Ordinance may be removed by such Officer as aforesaid and on due proof of such contraven- tion may be declared by a magistrate to be forfeited to His Majesty.
offences.
55 & 56 Vict., c. 43, s. 17 (2).
authorised
9. The following officers are hereby authorised to Officers remove or to take into custody without warrant any person to arrest contravening sections 6 or 7, or to remove any vessel, aircraft or thing found on any area affected:-
(i) the officer in charge of the batteries, that is to say the Officer Commanding, Royal Artillery, Hong Kong;
(ii) any officer, warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or military policeman, for the time being under the command of the said officer in charge of the batteries;
or remove
trespassers,
etc.
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