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(2.) For regulating, restricting or preventing the exhibition of advertisements in such places and in such manner or by such means, as to affect injuriously the amenities of any public place or to disfigure the natural beauty of a landscape or of the waters of the Colony or of the clouds or sky.

3. Any person who fails to comply with or commits any breach of any regulation made under this Orlinance shall be liable on summary cenviction to a finc not exceeding fifty dollars.

Objects and Reasons.

The Bill is based in a measure on the Advertisements Regulation Act 1907 which allows local authorities to make byelaws which are subject to the confirmation of the Secretary of State for the regulation and control of adver- tising on hoardings over 12 feet in height and for regulating and restricting or preventing the exhibition of advertise- ments in such places and in such manner or by such means as to affect injuriously the amenities of public parks or promenades or to disfigure the natural beauty of a land- scape.

C. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General.

A BILL

Short title.

Amends

section 7 of Ordi-

nance No.

10 of 1902,

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Tramway Ordinance,

1901, (Ordinance No. 10 of 1902).

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council there- of, as follows:--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Tramway Amen:ment Ordinance, 1912.

2. The Tramway Ordinance, 1901, that is to say Ordi- nance No. 10 of 1902, is hereby amended in section 7 by the insertion after the words "such approval" in the third line thereof of the words " and after such approval has been confirmed by a resolution of the Legislative Council”, and after the words "all such" in the eighth line thereof of the word "lines" and after the words “addition to in the tenth line thereof of the words "or as extension of ".

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Objects and Reasons.

This bill amplifies the powers vested in the Tramway Electric Co. under the Tramway Ordinauce, 1902, by giving them the right of extending the tramways subject to the approval of the Governor-in-Council, and as the Company has a monopoly, subject also to the approval of the Legislative Council.

Timely and adequate notification by public advertise- ment or otherwise of the intention of the Company to apply to the Governor-in-Council for such approval has first to be made. The object of the Bill is to render the passing of a fresh amending Ordinance unnecessary where the system is extended.

C. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General,

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