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Insertion of
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6. The following new sections are inserted immedi-
new sections ately after section 34 of the principal Ordinance :-
344 and 34B
in Ordinance Removal of No. 9 of 1925.
Amendment of Ordinance
No. 9 of 1925, s. 35.
Amendment
lines and instruments on change of address.
Making of and charges and security for trunk calls.
34A. In the event of any subscriber laving changed or being about to change his address and requiring his telephone or line to be removed from one place, office, or address to another or requiring the installation of a line and apparatus of a similar type at his new address then upon his notifying the Company of such his desire and upon payment of the charges in respect thereof set out in the Schedule the Company shall, subject to the pro- visions of section 33 carry out such re- moval or installation as aforesaid. addition to the charges mentioned in this section and the rates of subscription men- tioned in section 34 the Company shall be entitled to charge its subscribers in respect of other services mentioned in the Schedule such charges as are therein set out.
In
34B. No subscriber shall be entitled to make trunk calls from his telephone unless he shall have first notified the Company in writing of such his desire and unless he shall have deposited and kept deposited such sum not exceeding twenty dollars as the Company may demand of him as se- curity for charges in respect of such trunk calls.
7. Section 35 of the principal Ordinance is amend- ed :--
(a) by the insertion at the end of the second line
of the words
", including the takings in respect of trunk line services,”
(6) by adding at the end of the section the
words :--
"Provided always that nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorise the inclusion of accounts in respect of any trunk line service opened by the Com- pany without the written sanction of the Governor-in-Council or in respect of any trunk line service which in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council is not being managed, worked or con- ducted satisfactorily'
8. Section 37 of the principal Ordinance is amended
of Ordinance by the insertion junmediately after the word "subscrip-
No. of
1925, a. 37.
Amendment
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tion in the third line thereof of the words "and other charges".
9. Section 44 of the principal Ordinance is amended
of Ordinance by substituting the words "telephone lines" for the word "telephones" wherever that word occurs in the section.
No. 9 of 1925, 6. 44.
Amendment
No. 9 of
10. Section 52 of the principal Ordinance is amended of Ordinance by inserting the figure"(1)" at the commencement 1925, s. 52. thereof and by adding the following sub-sections at
the end thereof :—
Reservation
of Govern-
ment; rights
(2) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to make it obligatory for tho
in respect of Government to take over or purchase any undertaking portion of the undertaking of the Company outside the situate outside the Colony.
Colony,
Limitation of Company's
rights, etc.,
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(3) Nothing herein contained shall be construed as a grant by the Government
to the Colony, to the Company of any right, interest, benefit, privilege or franchise outside the Colony, or as entitling the Company to make any claim whatsoever against the Government in respect of any part of its undertaking outside the Colony.
11. The Schedule to the principal Ordinance is Repeal of repealed and the Schedule to this Ordinance is Schedule to substituted therefor.
Ordinance No. 9 of
1925, and substitution
of new Schedule.
Crown and
12. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be Saving of deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, rights of His Heirs or Successors, or of any bodies politic or of certain corporate, or other persons except such as are men- other rights. tioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from
or under them.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 14th day of August, 1930.
N. L. SMITH,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
SCHEDULE.
A. The following annual rates (payable quarterly
in advance) shall be paid by subscribers :-
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$117 per exchange line within (1) Victoria and Kowloon, as defined by the Inter- pretation Ordinance, 1911, and (i) with- in the Peak District, as defined by the Peak District Reservation Ordinance, 1904, but substituting *700 feet" for "788 feet".
$117 per exchange line within a radius of one mile from any exchange that may hereafter be opened outside the areas referred to in i.
An additional charge of $50 per mile or part of a mile measured outwards from the nearest point of the boundary of the areas referred to in i and 2.
io $1 per indicator on a private branch-
exchange switchboard.
e $81 per power-circuit to a private brauch-
exchange switchboard.
$6 per single switch.
vii $30 per internal extension.
vii $40 per external extension of* 50 yards.
ix $50 * $60
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100
200
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'Exterual extension" means a connection completed extern-
ally between a main exchange line telephone or private branch exchange and a point situated in another building from a main line instrument or private branch exchango; the term 'external exten- sion includes the internal wiring and lightning protector connecting to the external wiring at the main office, the external line (which may be cable or open wires or both) between the main and extension offices, also the lightning protector, internal wiring and extension telephone at the extension or sub-office end of the line.
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