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Ord. No. 41/78

L.S.

RAILWAYS (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

No. 41 OF 1978

I assent.

Short title.

Amendment of long title. (Cap. 99.)

Amendment of section 2.

MURRAY MACLEHOSE,

Governor.

25th May, 1978.

An Ordinance to amend the Railways Ordinance

[26th May, 1978]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Railways (Amendment) Ordinance 1978.

2. The long title of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting “railways” and substituting the following—

"the Kowloon-Canton Railway”.

3. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended by-

(a) inserting after the definition of "assistant general manager" the

following definition--

66.66,

'deputy general manager" means the person appointed by the Governor to act as deputy general manager of the railway;";

(b) deleting the definition of "railway" and substituting the follow-

ing-

"the railway" means the Kowloon-Canton Railway, or any

section thereof, and-

(a) all land within the fences or other boundary marks indicating the limits of the land belonging to the railway;

(b) all railway tracks, sidings or branches worked over for the purposes of or in connexion with the railway; (c) all stations, offices, warehouses, wharves, workshops, manufactories, fixed plant, machinery, and other works, which belong to, or are constructed for the purposes of or in connexion with, the railway; (d) all railway locomotives or other motive power, trains, rolling stock and vessels which are used for the traffic of the railway and belong to the railway or are hired or worked by or by the authority of the general manager;

(e) any extension of the railway in process of con-

struction; and

all works connected with or for the purposes of the railway authorized to be constructed;"; and