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Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the regulations but is intended to indiente their gameral purport).

Under regulation 179 of the Places of Public Entertainment Regulations considerable numbers of applications for the reduction of licence fees for places of public entertainment by organizations of a cultural or charitable nature have been made to the Governor in Council. Regulation 2 provides for the addition of a new regulation empowering the Commissioner of Police to deal with such applications.

(Scretariat 75/3231/47)

PLEASURE GROUNDS AND BATHING PLACES

ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 173).

CHILDREN'S Playgrounds (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1954.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Pleasure Grounds and Bathing Places Ordinance, the Governor

in Council has made the following regulations—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Children's Play- Citation. grounds (Amendment) Regulations, 1954.

2. Regulation 13 of the regulations contained in the Second Rescission

and replace- Schedule to the Pleasure Grounds and Bathing Places Ordinance,

ment of 1936, under the heading "CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS", regulation set forth on page 202 of the annual volume of the Ordinances of la Hong Kong for the year 1936, hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations, is rescinded and replaced by the following regulation-

3.

"13. The playgrounds shall be opened during the following hours ; —

(2) From April 1st to September 30th-

From 7.30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

(b) From October 1st to March 31st-

From 7 a.m. to 6.30 p.m."

The principal regulations are amended by the addition, Addition after regulation 13, of the following new regulations→

"14. Any person who acts in contravention of regulation 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for one month.

as the

15. These regulations may be cited Children's Playgrounds Regulations, 1936.'

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

6th April, 1954-

GHLI

(Secretariat L.M.G. 1905/54)

Clerk of Councils,

of new regulations 14 and 15.