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Report

on an Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to provide

for the public lighting of the Colony and for the

protection of the appliances used in connection

therewith.

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1/- The object of this Bill is to provide for the protection of

public lighting appliances turoughout the Colony. The existing

Ordinance, namely, the Victoria (Lighting) Ordinance, 1856, applies

only to the City of Victoria, and it has been found desirable that

the provisions dealing with the protection against damage to, or

improper interference with, public lighting appliances should be

extended to the whole Colony.

2/- Section 1 is formal,

Section 2 is practically the same as Section 2 of Ordinance

No. 3 of 1856, except that it applies to the whole Colony, and that as the Ordinance will cover rural as well as urban districts the

section has been thrown into a permissive form.

ern technical terms have also been introduced.

One or two mod-

Section 3 is practically the same as Section 4 of Ordinance

No. 3 of 1856.

Section 4 is practically the same as Section 5 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1856, except that it is now made an offence to interfere in any way with the light of a street lamp even if the light be

not actually extinguished.

Section 5 is the same as Section 6 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1856. Section 6 is practically the same as Section 7 of Ordinance

No. 3 of 1856.

Section 7 is the same as Section 8 of Ordinance No.3 of 1856. Section 8 saves the liability imposed by Section186 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903 upon the owers of the land adjoining private streets to contribute to the cost of pro-

viding lighting apparatus.

Section 9 is formal.