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A BILL

Intituled

Short title.

Ordinance

No. 9 of 1925

Addition of

section 55A

to the

principal Ordinance.

An Ordinance to amend the Telephone Ordinance, 1925.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Telephone Amendment

Ordinance, 1943, and shall be read as one with the Telephone Ordinance,

1925, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.

2. The principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the

insertion therein of the following section as section 55A immediately after

section 55 thereof:-

"Power to order inspection of records and interception of messages.

55A. Where it appears to the Governor that such

a course is expedient in the course of investigation

of a suspected offence or offences against any law of

the Colony he may by warrant under his hand require the

Company to afford to any person named in the warrant

access to their records of subscribers or facilities for

the installation and maintenance of means of intercep-

tion or of making a record of any message or class of

messages to or from any person or class of persons or

relating to any particular subject transmitted or likely

to be transmitted by the undertaking",