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XCR (78)188 Copy No
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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
APPLICATION BY THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY CORPORATION FOR AN ORDER, UNDER REGULATION
42 OF THE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY REGULATIONS, EXEMPTING THE CORPORATION'S ELECTRICAL
INSTALLATIONS FOR THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY HK 1641
FROM INSPECTION BY CHINA LIGHT AND ROWER ID IN RUS
COMPANY LIMITED AND THE HONGKONG
ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED
4 AUG 1978
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Regulation 30 of the Electricity Supply Regulations provides that the Hong Kong power Companies may not connect their supply mains' with any consumers' wires or fittings that would cause an undue leakage or that are, in the opinion of the Companies, so constructed as to cause a danger of shock or fire. It consequently obliges the power Companies to inspect their consumers' electric lines, fittings and apparatus before supply ing electricity to their consumers.
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China Light and Power Company Limited (CLP) normally makes about 6,000 such inspections per month but the majority are usually simple inspections of electrical lines and fittings in domestic premises.
3
On 4th August 1978 at the very latest, and in order to keep to a very tight commissioning programme, the Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC) will require electricity to be supplied by CLP to the running lines in the vicinity of Kowloon Bay Station and the adjacent Depot, not only for the purposes of electrifying part of the existing rail system but also for the purposes of testing rolling stock. These electrical installations are very complex, comprising much specialised equipment, including DC equipment, the inspection of which, under Regulation 30, would entail such use of the power company's resources as to adversely affect its statutory obligations elsewhere.
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Although CLP has the expertise to carry out the inspections required it does not have the capacity to do so within the time scale envisaged, added to which there are three further considerations which militate against inspection by CLP in this instance. The first of these is that the MTRC already has a contractual duty to inspect its own electrical contractors' work, the second that it would be undesirable from the point of view of
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