CO129-562-16 Lighting Control Ordinance 1936 31-12-1936 - 5-1-1937 — Page 14

Objects and Reasons.

1. The Emergency Regulations Ordinance, No. 5 of 1922, enables the Governor in Council to make Regulations in the public interest on occasions of emergency or public. danger but contains no power to secure the total or partial cessation of lighting by command, or by request for co- operation, in normal times.

2. It is necessary in normal times, however, for experi- mental or practice "black-outs" to be undertaken occasionally so that they can be successfully applied when emergencies

occur.

3. The object of this Bill is therefore to make provision for such "black-outs" whenever the Governor in Council considers them necessary.

4. The object of clause 3 of the Bill is to exonerate persons from liability, contractual or otherwise, resulting from compliance with any command, or request for co- operation, in effecting the "black-outs."

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

December, 1936.

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