CO129-532-8 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless services in Hong Kong to Imperial and International Communications- Ltd.... 19-12-1930 - 19-4-1932 — Page 223

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ANNIKURE TO ENCLOSURE,

DRAFT ARTICLES OF AGRE IT BUTVER THE GOVERNMENT OF

HONG KONG AND THE IMPERIAL AND INTERNATIONAL

COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED.

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Hong Kong,

December, 1930,

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT made on the

day of

One thousand nine hundred and thirty BETWEEN His

Excellency Sir William Pecl, K.B.E., C.M. G., Governor

and Comm nder in Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its

Dependencies and Vice Admiral of the same for and on behalf

of the Government thereof of the one part and Imperial

and International Communications Limited, hereinafter called the Company, of the other part.

ARTICLE 1.

Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained the Government of Hong Kong grants to the Company the sole right to supply and operate the external fixed station commercial radio-electric communications of the Colony of Hong Kong; but the Government roserves to itself the right to assume control of, and to make rogulations affecting, the Company' radio-clectric communication system in the Colony in time of

? emergency or public danger.

war

ARTICLE 2.

The right granted under this Agreement shall not include radio-electric communication service of the following nature:-

Mobilo station services.

Meteorological station services.

broadcasting services.

police services.

harbour services.

navigation services (lighthouses, beacons, etc). Naval services.

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