THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 19, 1911.
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If on any such testing the officer discovers an undue leakage from the consumer's wires or if the consumer does not give all due facilities for inspection and testing, the company shall forthwith discontinue the supply of energy to the premises in question, giving immediate notice of the discontinuance to the consumer, and shall not recommence the supply until they are reasonably satisfied that the leakage has been removed.
Public
32. If any consumer is dissatisfied with the action of Appeal to the company in refusing to give, or in discontinuing or Director of in not recommencing the supply of energy to his pre- Works. mises, the wires and fittings of that consumer shall, on his application and on payment of a fee of ten dollars, be tested for the existence of leakage by the Director of Public Works.
This regulation shall be endorsed on every notice given under the provisions of either of the two last pre- coding regulations.
addition to
33. Any consumer making any addition to the clec- Penalty on trical installation on his premises without giving due consumer for notice to the company to enable them to test the same electrical before connecting it to the existing installation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for every without such addition.
Are Lighting.
installation
notice to campany.
34. Are lamps used in any street for public lighting Height from shall be so fixed as not to be in any part at a less height ground. than 10 feet from the ground.
35. All are lamps shall be so guarded as to prevent are lamps pieces of ignited carbon or broken glass falling from to be them, and shall not be used in situations where there is guarded. any danger of the presence of explosive dust or gas.
Connection of Circuits with Earth.
of a three-
36. Where the pressure of a supply between the ad- Connection jacent conductors of a three-wire system of mains with earth exceeds 125 volts, the intermediate conductor shall be wire system. connected with earth in accordance with the following conditions:-
(a.) The connection with earth of the intermediate conductor shall be made at one point only
trans-
On each distinct circuit, namely, at the generating station, sub-station, or former, and the insulation of the circuit shall be efficiently maintained at all other parts. (b) The current from the intermediate conductor to earth shall be continuously recorded, and, if it at any time becomes excessive, steps shall be immediately taken to improve the insulation of the system.
37. The company shall not connect any other circuit Connection with earth except with the approval of the Director of of other Public Works and subject to such conditions as he may rout prescribe.
Extra High Pressure.
circuits with
s to extra
38.(1.) This regulation shall have effect in the case Special of a supply at extra high pressure and shall be in addition regulations to and not in substitution for the obligations imposed high by the foregoing regulations.
(2.) An extra high pressure main shall not be brought into use unless, after it has been placed in position and before it is used for the purposes of supply, the insula- tion of every part thereof has withstood the continuous application, during half-an-hour, of pressure exceeding the maximum pressure to which it is intended to be sub- jected in use, that is to say, in the case of every electric line to be used for a pressure not exceeding 10,000 volts twice the said maximum pressure, and in the case of a line to be used for a pressure exceeding 10,000 volts, a pressure exceeding the said maximum pressure by 10,000 volts: and the company shall record the results of the tests of each main or section of a main.
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