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(iv) By a red flag flown at East Brother Island (map reference 349049);

(v) By a red flag flown at Chu Lu Kok Island (map reference 305027);

(vi) By red flags flown on two safety launches patrolling outside the boundaries of the firing area,

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DOGS AND CATS ORDINANCE,

(Chapter 167),

Dogs and Cats (Amendment) Regulations, 1954.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

7th December, 1954.

(Secretariat 1/4945/52)

Clerk of Councils.

Sof

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Dogs

"

and Cats Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-

1. These regulations may be cited as the Dogs and Cats Citation. (Amendment) Regulations, 1934.

2. Regulation 21 of the Dogs and Cats Regulations is Rescission rescinded and replaced by the following-

"Dogs not

Lo bu aliowed

out except

under

control,

absolute

lability

of owher.

and replace- ment of

21.

21. (1) No dog shall be allowed to go abroad regulation on a public thoroughfare or on any premises aburting (Vol. X, on any thoroughfare which are not so enclosed as to

p. 260). confine such dog within the enclosed area unless it is on the lead or is otherwise under control.

(2) A breach of this regulation shall be decined to have occurred if any dog is abroad as aforesaid and is not on the lead or otherwise under control or if a dog bites any person or any other dog, at a time when, and place at which it is required by this regulation to be on a lead or otherwise under control.

(3) In every such case the owner of such dog or, if the owner is absent from the Colony, the person having the custody or care of such dog shall be guilty of such breach, notwithstanding that such breach occurred without his knowledge or without any default on his part and, in the case of a dog biting a person or another dog, notwithstanding any proof that the dog was on a lead or was otherwise under control.