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the Ordinance) provides that the ferry service authorised by the Ordinance shall be maintained and operated upon the turns and conditions specified in the Schedule thereto;
(b) Suction 5 of the Ordinance providos that the Schedule
therate may be varied at any time, with the consent of the Company by Resolution of Legislative Council;
(c) A definition of the frontage of the Jordan Road Perry Pier appears in Appendix I of the Schedule to the Ordinance;
(d) By reason of the removal of the public pier at Kowloon
Foint from its original position to a poaition situated further to the Eastward, it is necessary to amend the definition of the frontage of the Jordan Road Pier appearing in Appendix I of the Sobedulo to the Ordinance;
(e) The Company has consented to the amendment of the said
definition of the frontage of the Jordan Road Fier;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, with the consent of the Company,
that Appendix I of the Schedule to the Ordinance bo varied by the deletion therefrom of the definition of the frontage of the Jordan Road Pier and the substitution therefor of the following
"North side of waterloo Road to the Southern boundary
of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 10, as such boundary existed on the lat day of October, 1959,"
(C) Ferries (Amendment) Bill, 1959.
The Attorney General to move the Pirat reading of:-
A Bill intituled; "An Ordinance to amend the Ferries Ordinance,
Chapter 104."
(7) Summary Offences (Abendment) Bill, 1959.
The Attorney General to move the First reading of:-
A Bill intituled: "An Ordinanco to acend the Soumary Offences
Ordinance, Chapter 228.
(8) Heung Tea Kuk Bill, 1959.
The Colonial Secretary to move the Second and Third readings of;-
A Bill intituled: "An Ordinance to provids for the Establishment
and Functions of an Advisory and Consultative Body for the New Territories and for purpoaus connsated therewith,”
(9) "Star" Ferry Company (Service) (Amendment) Bill, 1959.
The Attorney General to move the Second and Third readings of';--
A Bill intituled: "An Ordinance to amend the "Star" Ferry
Company (Service) Ordinance, 1951."
1.
LEG
TIVE
COUNCIL,
Meeting to be held on Wednesday, 16th December, 1959, at 2.30 p.m.
ORDER OF BUSINESS,
CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON 9TH DECEMBER, 1959.
PAPERS TO BE LAID.
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS.
(1) Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company (Services) Ordinance, 1951.
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The Attorney General to move the following resolution 1-
WHEREAS
(a) Section 4 of the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company
(Services) Ordinance, 1951 (hereinafter referred to ae the Ordinance) provides that the furry services autho- rised by the Ordinance shall be maintained and operated upon the terms and conditions specified in the Schedule thereto;
(b) Section 5 of the Ordinance provides that the Schedule
thereto may be varied at any time, with the consent of the Company, by Reaolution of the Legislative Council;
(c) It is now desired to vary the Schedule to provide for a temporary service for the conveyance of vehicles, gooda parried in vehicles and persons travelling in vehicles between Rumsey Street, Victoria, and Jordan Road, Kowloon;
(d) For the purpose of such service the Hong Kong and
Yaunati Ferry Company, Limited, hersinbefore and here- Laafter referred to as the Compaty, will al Kumaey Street, aforesaid, and at Jordan Road aforesaid provide, use and maintain, on such terma as may be agreed upon between the Government and the Company, such pontoons or landing- atagea, as may be necessary, to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works and the Director of Marine;
(e) The Company has consented to the variation of the Schedule until a date to be decided by the Governor and notified by him in writing to the Company, by the addition immediately after paragraph 20 thereof of a new paragraph in order to provide for the matters aforesaid.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, with the consent of the Ocopany,
that, as from the 16th day of December, 1959, until a date to be decided by the Governor and notified by him to the Company, the Schedule to the Ordinance be varied by the addition immediately after paragraph 20 thereof of the following new paragraph
A. CHAPMAN,
DEPUTY CLERK OF COUNCILS.
P.1.0.