THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD NOVEMBER, 1895. 1171
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 485.
The following Additional Police Pension Regulation, made by the Governor in Council under section 17 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1887, this 21st day of November, 1895, is substituted for the Additional Police Pension Regulation published under Government Notification No. 304 of the 9th July, 1895.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st November, 1895.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
ADDITIONAL POLICE PENSION REGULATION.
When Police pensioners are appointed to some other civil post under the Government of Hong- kong, provided that they have served 10 years in such employment, they will not, in the absence of any special arrangement to the contrary, retain a claim to pension under these regulations, but they will be entitled to a pension calculated as if their service in the Police Force and in such employment had been continuous service.
Should their service in such employment be for a less period than ten years they will be entitled to a gratuity in accordance with the Civil Service pension minute in respect of such service and to their Police Pensions, which may have been in the meantime in abeyance.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG.
J. G. T. BUCKLE,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 486.
The following alteration in the Rules and Regulations with regard to dangerous goods, made by the Governor in Council and published in the Government Gazette under Government Notification No. 282, dated the 14th June, 1892, is hereby notified.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd November, 1895.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
"DANGEROUS GOODS ORDINANCE, 1873."
Rule 6 of the Rules and Regulations made by the Governor in Council on the 14th day of June, 1892, is hereby revoked, and the following Rule made by the Governor in Council on the 21st day of November, 1895, under The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, as amended by Ordinance 8 of 1892, is hereby substituted :--
6 (a) When any dangerous goods as aforesaid are being transhipped, shipped, landed or moved from one place to another by water. they shall be conveyed in a covered boat, lighter or vessel on board of which there shall be no lights or fires, and the boat, lighter or vessel carrying such goods shall display a Red Flag and shall proceed without delay, or interruption, or anchoring, to her destination.
6 (b) No such boat, lighter or vessel shall lie alongside any pier, wharf or godown, (other than the licensed kerosene godowns), for the purpose of landing or shipping any dangerous goods or of otherwise dealing with or of disposing of such goods, for more than fifteen minutes, and, thereupon, such boat, lighter, or vessel shall, unless the dangerous goods have been wholly discharged, proceed forthwith, cither to the Dangerous Goods Anchorage or to the licensed godowns.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG.
J. G. T. BUCKLE,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.- No. 487.
Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Saturday, the 30th instant, for the construc- tion of a new steel Boiler for the Government Steam-launch Victoria.
Plan of Boiler and specifications may be seen at the Office of the Government Marine Surveyor, to whose satisfaction-the work will have to be executed.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd November, 1895.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
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