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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 444.-The following Bill is published for general information:-

Short title.

Power of the Governor in Council to make regulations. Schedule.

Penalty for breach of

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 29-9.12.37.-2.1

An Ordinance to make provision for the periodical examina-

tion of Gasholders.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Gasholders Examination Ordinance, 1938.

2. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the periodical examination of gasholders.

(2) The regulations in the Schedule shall be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance and shall be in force, except so far as they may be rescinded, suspended, added to or amended by regulations made by the Governor in Council under sub-section (1).

3. If the proprietors of any gasholder in the Colony regulations. wilfully fail to carry out any requirement of any regulation made under this Ordinance they, and where the proprietors are a corporation every director and manager thereof, shall be severally liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

Power of Governor in Council to declare a gasholder unfit for

use.

4. The Governor in Council may at any time call upon the proprietors of any gasholder in the Colony to show cause why the said gasholder should not be declared unfit for use. If on being so called upon the proprietors fail to show such cause to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, the Governor in Council may by Order declare the gasholder unfit for use; and if, whilst such order remains unrevoked, the gasholder is used to hold gas the proprietors, and where the proprietors are a corporation every director and manager thereof, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SCHEDULE.

[s. 2 (2)].

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations-

Gasholder means a water sealed gasholder which has a storage capacity of not less than five thousand cubic feet.

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