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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 64. The following Bill is published for general infor-

mation:-

[No. 5-22.2.35.-1.]

A BILL

Short title.

Substitution

for section

3 (1) of

Ordinance

No. 9 of

1925 as

amended by

section 3

No. 9 of

1930.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Telephone Ordinance,

1925.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, follows:-

as

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Telephone Amend- ment Ordinance, 1935.

2. Sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Telephone Ordin- ance, 1925, as amended by section 3 of the Telephone Amendment Ordinance, 1930, is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted :-

3.-(1) Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained of Ordinance the Government grants to the Company the sole right to supply and operate public telephonic communication within the Colony, including trunk line telephonic communication therein for communicating with places outside the Colony, for the period of 50 years commencing on and from the 1st day of July, 1925. Such trunk line telephonic com- munication shall include a right to establish and maintain inter-communication with any commercial Radio Telephony Station outside the Colony but this right shall be limited to the period during which inter-communication of the same or like kind or nature is not provided through or by some under- taking or service carried on or authorised by the Government of the Colony or by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom

Saving of rights of

the Crown

and of

certain other

rights.

4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or Successors, or of any bodies politic or corporate, or other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of this Ordinance repeals sub-section (1) of section 3 of the principal Ordinance, No. 9 of 1925, as amended by section 3 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1930, and re- enacts it with the addition of the words "Such trunk line telephonic communication shall include a right to establish