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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 19, 1940.
4. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of regulation 9 (1) are rescind- ed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor:
(d) In every lamp (except traffic direction indicators), any glass through which light may pass must be completely obscured with at least two thicknesses of ordinary blue close woven cloth or paint, and no such cloth or paint may be wetted, oiled, varnished or treated in any other way to increase its transparency.
5. Paragraph (2) of regulation 9 is rescinded and the following paragraph is substituted therefor:
(2) No head light may be lit on any vehicle which is also fitted with side lights: Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall, in relation to any head light, confer any exemption from compliance with paragraph (1) of this regulation.
6. The proviso at the end of regulation 9 is numbered as paragraph (3) of that regulation and the words “Provided that at the beginning of that proviso are rescinded.
7. Regulation 11 is amended by the rescission of the letters and word “(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e)" at the end thereof.
8. Regulation 17 is rescinded and the following is sub- stituted therefor:
17.-(1) Such lights on trains and such signal lights on any railway as are necessary to bring traffic on the railway to a stop may remain lit during the hours of darkness but all such lights must be extinguished within three minutes after the sounding of an AIR RAID WARNING or within three minutes after traffic on the railway has stopped, whichever is the later, and no such light may be lit during a BLACK- OUT,
(2) the fire boxes of engines must be effectively screened during the hours of darkness so that no light proceeding there- from is visible from the outside.
9. The second paragraph of regulation 24 is amended by the addition of the words "or in the newspapers" between the word Gazette and the word or in the second line
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thereof.
15th January, 1940.
T. MEGARRY,
Clerk of Councils.
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