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No. 19 of 1912.
ADVERTISEMENTS REGULATION.
ADVERTISEMENTS REGULATION. No. 19 of 1912.
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Regulations.
(b) "Building" includes every house, hut, shed or roofed inclosure, whether used for the purposes of human habitation or for manufacture, storage, business or otherwise, and also every wall, fence, roof, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing stage or bridge;
(c) "Owner" includes any person holding premises direct from the Crown and also any person for the time being receiv- ing the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or on that of any other person and where such owner as above defined cannot readily be found or is absent from the Colony or is under disability the occupier shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed an owner;
(d) "Sky sign" means any word, letter, model, sign, device or representation in the nature of an advertisement, announcement or direction, supported on or attached
to any
post, pole, standard, framework or other support, wholly or in part upon, over or above any building, structure or erection, which, or any part of which, sky sign is visible against the sky from some point in any public place in the Colony or in the waters thereof, and includes all and every part of any such post, pole, standard, framework or other support. "Sky sign" also includes any balloon, parachute, searchlight, flashlight or other similar device employed wholly or in part for the purposes of any advertisement or announcement on, over or above any building, structure or erection of any kind or on or over any public place in the Colony or in the waters thereof; but does not include any flagstaff, pole, vane or weathercock unless adapted or used wholly or in part for the purpose of any advertisement
or announcement.
3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations with regard to the following matters—
(a) the licensing, control, prohibition and removal of advertisements of any kind whatsoever;
(b) the prescribing of fees to be charged in connexion with any of the above matters.
4. Every person who fails to comply with or commits any Penalties. breach of any regulation made under this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to an order for the removal of the advertise- ment. Every person who fails to comply with any such order shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars a day for every day that he is in default and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
5.-(1) If any person-
(a) against whom an order for the removal of an advertise- of Public ment is made by a magistrate; or
Power to Director
Works to
enter
premises
advertise.
(b) on whom a notice under the hand of the Clerk of and remove Councils is served requiring the removal of an advertisement on ments. such grounds as may be prescribed by regulations,
fails to remove the advertisement as required by such order or notice, then without prejudice to the liability of such person to any penalty for non-compliance with the order or the liability of such person or owner for any breach of regulations, it shall be lawful for any person authorized in that behalf by the Director of Public Works at any time in the daytime to enter into and upon the land or building on or in which the advertisement is erected or exhibited and to remove or obliterate the advertisement.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works, the Commissioner of Police or any persons deputed by either of them for that purpose to enter at any time into and upon any premises and remove any sky sign erected or maintained in contravention of regulations.
(3) The materials of any advertisement removed in pursu- ance of this section shall be forfeited to the Crown.
(4) The Director of Public Works, the Commissioner of Police and any person so authorized or deputed by either of them as aforesaid shall not be held liable for any damage done by him in course of the removal or obliteration of any advertise- ment in pursuance of this section.
6. (1) Any expenses incurred by the Director of Public Expenses of Works in consequence of any default in complying with an order removal of or notice requiring the removal of any advertisement shall be ment by
advertise-
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