HONG KONG.
No. 18 OF 1936.
I assent.
L. S.
A. CALDECOTT,
Governor.
24th April, 1936.
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to
Telecommunication.
[24th April, 1936.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
Part I.
PRELIMINARY.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Telecommunication Short title. Ordinance, 1936.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise Interpreta- requires-
(1) "Telecommunication" means any telegraphic or telephonic communication of signs, signals, writing, facsimiles and sounds of any kind, by wire, wireless, or any other system or process of electric or visual signalling or by means of pneumatic tubes.
(2) "Telegraph" means any electric, galvanic or magnetic telegraph, and includes appliances and apparatus for trans- mitting, receiving or making telecommunication, but does not include electric appliances and apparatus, other than radio, the operation and scope of which is limited to communications concerning the affairs of the sender or receiver thereof and confined to a single messuage or tenement or works area.
(3) "Telegraph officer" means any person employed, either permanently or temporarily, in connection with a telegraph established, maintained or worked by the Govern- ment or by a person licensed under this Ordinance.
(4) "Telegraph line" means any wire or wires used for the purposes of telecommunication, with any casing, coating, tube or pipe enclosing the same, and any appliances and apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of fixing or insulating the same.
(5) "Message" means any telecommunication sent by telegraph or handed to a telegraph officer to be sent by telegraph or to be delivered.
(6) "Post" means a post, pole, standard, stay, strut or other above-ground contrivance for carrying, suspending or supporting a telegraph line.
tion.