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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Draft Bill.

No. S. 401.-The following Bill is published for general information:

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[No. 23-7.8.40.-1.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendments of Ordinance No. 13 of

1914, s. 2.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Public Lighting Ordinance, 1914.

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 Public Lighting Amendment Ordinance, 1940.

2. Section 2 of the Public Lighting Ordinance, 1914, is amended-

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(i) by the insertion of the words or for the control of pedestrian and vehicular traffic therein after the word

Colony" in the fourth line.

(ii) by the insertion of the words

or control" after

the words such lighting" in the fifth line.

or control" after

(iii) by the insertion of the words the words "the lighting" in the penultimate line.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is as follows:-

2. It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works to cause a sufficient number of posts, standards and brackets for the lighting of the public or private streets, roads, ways and thoroughfares of the Colony to be provided and to be set up, fixed or erected in all suitable situations for such lighting, whether in any of the said streets, roads, ways or thorough- fares or in any place adjacent thereto or upon or against the wall of any house or building or the side of any wall or fence, or elsewhere, as he may think proper; and it shall also be lawful for him to cause to be provided and put up and affixed upon the said posts, standards and brackets such a number of lamps and of such sizes and sorts respectively as may be found requisite for the lighting of the said streets, roads, ways and thoroughfares respectively.

2. In view of the fact that when the Ordinance was passed, motor traffic was in its infancy and no provision was made for the beacons and traffic control lights which are now such a common feature of street lighting, doubts have been expressed as to whether the section is wide enough to cover such additional lights which are however, like the ordinary lamp-post, intended to give greater protection to the public. users of thoroughfares.

3. Clause 2 of this Bill is intended to remove those doubts by the addition of suitable words wherever required in the section.

C. G. ALABASTER,

August, 1940.

Attorney General.