593369-1939-Lighting-Control-Ord--1936--Regulations-relating-to-the-control-of-lighting — Page 5

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 14, 1939.

Navigation Lights.

19. The provisions of these regulations shall not on an occasion of experiment or practice apply to navigation or riding lights carried by any ship or vessel in accordance with Admiralty orders or order of the Harbour Master if such vessel or ship is under way or anchored or moored to a buoy nor to navigation lights carried by aircraft or at aerodromes in accordance with any regulations or directions in force in the Colony.

PROVIDED that all lights including riding lights on ships and vessels if tied or moored to a jetty or wharf or if inside a typhoon shelter, shall be extinguished within three minutes after the sounding of the AIR RAID WARNING and shall not be lit during a BLACKOUT.

PART III.

20. Relaxation of the provisions of regulation 4 and 5 on an occasion of experiment or practice.

(1) External lights whether public or private may be kept lighted until the sounding of an AIR RAID WARNING provided that effective provisions have previously been made so that all such lights can with certainty be extinguished within a period of three minutes.

(2) Internal lights in dwelling houses, hotels, shops, warehouses, factories, docks, shipbuilding yards, wharves, jetties and other premises of all descriptions, may be kept lighted until the sounding of an AIR RAID WARNING provided that effective provisions have previously been made so that all such lights can with certainty be extinguished or screened as required by regulation 5 within a period of three minutes.

(3) Lights on Ferry vessels may be kept lighted on an occasion of experiment or practice up to the sounding of an AIR RAID WARNING provided that effective provisions have previously been made for the extinguishment or screen- ing of all lights other than navigation lights so that all such lights can be extinguished or screened within a period of three minutes.

Provided that nothing in the above relaxations shall afford a defence to any prosecution for non compliance or contravention of these regulations if any lights required by these regulations to be extinguished or screened are not extinguished or screened within three minutes after the sounding of an AIR RAID WARNING.

PART IV.

21. At any time during a BLACKOUT or any period of emergency or public danger during which these regulations shall be made to apply, any instructions as to the further reduction or extinction of lights, given by or under the direction of competent military, naval, air force, Air Raid Precautions Officer or the Commissioner of Police shall be immediately obeyed.

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