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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 24, 1933.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 183.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 1 of 1903. (PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS).

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 210 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, the Governor in Counci! makes the following regulations.

Blasting Regulations.

1. These regulations apply to the blasting of stone in all Government quarries, whether leased or otherwise, except Government quarries worked by the Govern- ment for Government purposes and managed by the Public Works Department.

2. No blast shall be fired off in any quarry unless and until the stone, earth or other material to be affected shall have been fully covered over and weighted down with a sufficiently heavy timber shield, or other precautions have been taken effectually to prevent any fragments from being projected in such a manner as to be dangerous, and unless, in addition, warning to all persons within a radius of five hundred feet from the proposed blast shall have been given by means of red flags and by the beating of a gong, clearly audible throughout the area to which such radius relates, displayed and continued respectively for at least five minutes, previous to and until the firing off of such blast.

3. No blast shall be fired off except between 12 noon

and 12.30 p.m., and between 4.30 p.m. and 5 p.m.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

D. W. TRATMAN,

Clerk of Councils.

17th March, 1933.

1903,

NOTE. Any contravention of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance Ordinance. 1903, as regards the above matters renders not only the No. 1 of labourer doing the work, but the permit-holder, contractor, or sections foreman under whom such labourer is working, liable to the penalty 229 and provided by such Ordinance.

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