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Explanatory Note.
(This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended
to indicate their general purport).
The Traffic Regulations enacted in 1935 provided for silent zones where motor car horns are prohibited at night, and in 1948 certain zones on the island were made silent in the day-time, It is considered that
these measures have contributed to safety as well as the convenience of the public. Upon the advice of the Traffic Advisory Committee, silent zones are accordingly prescribed over larger areas on the island and Kowloon, and the whole Colony is made a late night silent zone,
The Commissioner of Police is required to erect warning signs and it is therefore provided that the regulations will not become operative until the 8th day of March, 1954.
WATERWORKS ORDINANCE, (Chapter 102).
WATERWORKS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1954-
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 29 of the Waterworks Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations---
1. These regulations may be cited as the Waterworks Citation. (Amendment) Regulations, 1954.
2. Regulation 7 of the Waterworks Regulations (hereinafter Amendment referred to as the principal regulations) is amended by the deletion of regula-
tion 7. of paragraph (a) thereof and the substitution therefor of the (Val. IX, following-
p. 158).
**(a) under paragraph (a) of section 7 of the Ordinance
notice will be given either-
(i) in newspapers approved by the water authority;
or
(ii) by letter sent by hand or post to the consumers affected ¡".
a.
The principal regulations are amended by the insertion. Addition after regulation 16 of the failowing new regulation-
of new regulation 16A.
“16A. Any person who prevents any other person from obtaining water for domestic purposes from a public standpipe shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars."
4. The principal regulations are amended by the insertion Addition after regulation 17 of the following new regulation-
"17A. (c) The owner of any premises in or on which any water closet, latring or urinal is flushed by means of water from the waterworks in contravention of regulation 17 shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars unless he proves that, at the time of such contravention, be had provided and had taken all reasonable steps to maintain a constant and adequate supply of water other than water from the waterworks to such water closet, latrine or urinal.
of new regulation 17A.