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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 2, 1909.
Breach of rules.
Apprehen- sion of offenders,
Rules for the
construction of the Ordin-
ance.
Liability of offenders to pay eosts of conviction.
expenses.
60. Any person who wilfully does any act which is forbidden or neglects to do any act which is required by the provisions of any rules framed under this Ordinance and for which no penalty is specially provided by such rules shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars.
61. Every person who shall be guilty of any offence under this Ordinance may be lawfully apprehended without any warrant or written authority by any railway official or by any other person whom sneb railway official shall call to his aid or by any Police Officer and every person so apprehended shall with all convenient despatch be carried and conveyed before a Magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
62. In the construction of this Ordinance every railway official shall be legally bound to do everything necessary for or conducive to the safety of the public, and every such official shall be legally prohibited from doing every act which shall be likely to cause danger.
63. In case of any summary conviction under this Ordinance a Magistrate may order the offender to pay the costs of such conviction in addition to any penalty or expenses to which he may be liable. Such costs may be assessed by the Magistrate and may be levied and recovered in the same manner as any penalty imposed under this Ordinance.
Recovery of
64. In every ease in which any person shall be liable under the provisions of this Ordinance to pay any sum of money due damages and money damages or expenses the same may be levied and recovered in the same manner as any penalties under this Ordinance and if necessary the amount thereof may be fixed and assessed by a Magistrate before whom the case shall be tried.
Limitation
of time for
commence-
ment of actions and prosecutions.
Enforcing payment of fare by pas senger not proch eing ticket.
A copy of Ordinance to
be shown at
railway stations.
Penalty for removing documents or notices.
Ordinance of
65. All actious and proscentions which may be lawfully brought against any person for anything done or intended to be done or omitted to be done under this Ordinance shall be commenced within three months after the occurrence of the matter complained of and not otherwise.
66. The payment of any fare for which any passenger not producing or delivering up his ticket is liable may be enforced in the same manner as any fiue imposed by this Ordinance.
67. A copy of this Ordinance and of the rules time tables and tariff of charges in respect of the railway which shall from time to time be duly made and published shall be exhibited in some conspicuous place at each station of the railway so that they may be easily seen and read and all such documents shall be so exhibited in English. There shall also be exhibited in like manner within and also without each station of the railway a schedule in English and Chinese of all offences punishable muder this Ordinance or any Rules made thereunder, and of the penalties attaching to each offence respectively.
63. Any person who shall wilfully or maliciously remove deface or in any way injure any document exhibited by the railway authorities as required by the last preceding section or any notice or document posted by them at the station or anywhere upon the railway shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding three months.
summary
69. The provisions of "The Steam Boilers Ordinance 1909* shall not apply to boilers kept and used by the not to apply railway administration.
to the rail-
way.
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