211. Hearing Standard No. 1 In neither ear shall the applicant's hearing loss when measured in the manner specified in sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 210 exceed 25 decibels at frequencies 500, 1000, and 2000 cycles per second and 40 decibels at a frequency of 3000 cycles per second.
212. Hearing Standard No. 2.-The applicant must be able, using both ears simultaneously and standing with his back to the examiner, to hear accurately and readily con- versation carried on by the examiner in normal tones at a distance of 8 feet from him in a room in which the intensity of the background noise does not exceed 50 decibels.". Given at Hong Kong this 18th day of November. 1957.
By His Excellency's Command.
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT.
The following Royal Warrant dated 21st March, 1956, relating to the Colonial Police Long Service Medal, is published for general information.
Colonial Secretary.
rgth November, 1957.
ROYAL WARRANT,
Colonial Sekrétary.
Explanatory Note."
(This Note sa not part of the Regulations, but is intended to indicate their peneral purport).
These regulations amend the Hong Kong Air Navigation (General) Regulations, 1955, to bring them into line with similar regulations existing in the United Kingdom.
2.
The purpose of the amendmenta is—
(a) to remove from the "A Conditions" under which airgraft may By
within the Colony unregistered or without a certificate air worthiness the condition confining flights by such aircraft to a limited distance from the aerodrome of departure.
(b) to impose revised requirements specifying the food and water to be carried in dinghis forming part of the safety equipment of public transport seroplanës;
(c) to specify the types of fight upon which public transport aircraft are required to carry a flight navigator as an additional member of the operating crew:
(d) to impose revised Visual, Colour Perception, and Hearing Standards to be applied to applicants for the grant or renewal of aircrew licences; and
(e) to take account of the provisions of the Air Navigation (Fifth Amendment) Order, 1967, (relating to flying hours) by deleting (see regulation 5) the requirement for a further modical examina- tlon if a total of 125 hours has been exceeded.
(Secretariat GR16/951/50)
THE COLONIAL POLICE LONG SERVICE MEDAL.
HONG KONG.
ELIZABETH R.
ELIZABETH THE SECOND. by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!
Whereas Our Royal Grandfather His late Majesty King George the Fifth in consideration of the long and good services rendered by subordinate members of the Police Forces and Fire Brigades in Our Colonies and in Territories under Our Protection or Administration did by Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual dated the Twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, institute a new Medal to be awarded for such services as aforesaid;
AND WHEREAS We are desirous of having separate Medals for the subordinate members of Police Forces and for subordinate members of Fire Brigades, We are graciously pleased to make, ordain and establish the following rules and ordinances for the governance of the Decoration to be awarded to subordinate mem- bers of Police Forces :-
First: Style.-The Medal shall be designated and styled
"The Colonial Police Long Service Medal",
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