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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TM APRIL, 1892.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 19 of 1890 and to amend "The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873.”

BE

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

1. Ordinance No. 19 of 1890 is hereby repealed but such repeal shall not affect any act or thing lawfully done or suffered thereunder nor be taken to revive section 8 of The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, thereby repealed.

2. This Ordinancé shall be read and construed together with The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, and in lieu of the said section 8 and of the words substituted therefor the following words shall be substituted therein :——

It shall be lawful for the Governor to make, vary and revoke rules and regulations in respect of any of the following matters; viz.:-

(a.) The movement, carriage, landing, shipment or transhipment of any dangerous goods to which The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873 applies from, into or within the Colony or the waters thereof and either by land or water, and the time and "mode thereof and the precautions to be` taken in connection therewith.

(b.) The place or places in the waters of the Colony ąt which any ship, vessel, lighter or boat of any description whatever carrying or about to carry or having on board any such dangerous goods may or may not moor, anchor or stop.

Such rules and regulations and any variation or revocation thereof shall not come into force until published in the Gazette and thereafter shall come into force from the date of publication or such other time as may be tlierein named.

Where any ship, vessel, lighter or other boat having on board any dangerous goods as aforesaid is moored, anchored or stopped or any such dangerous goods as aforesaid are carried, landed, shipped or transhipped, or otherwise dealt with in contravention of any rules and regulations for the time being in force, the owner and master of such ship, vessel, lighter or other boat or the owner of such dangerous goods, as the case may be, shall cach be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for each day during which such contravention continues, and it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or any other person acting under the orders of the Harbour Master to cause such ship, vessel, lighter or boat or dangerous goods to be removed at the expense of the owner thereof to such place as may be in conformity with the said rules and regulations and all expenses incurred in such removal may be recovered in the same manner in which penalties are by The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, as amended by section 3 hereof made recoverable.

3. In section 18 of The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, the words The Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, shall be and are hereby substituted for the words and figuros “Ordi- nance No. 10 of 1844.”

Title.

[No. of 1873.]

Repl

[No. 8 of 1873.]

Substitution

of new section.

Power to make regulations H

to the movement, de. of dangerous goods.

Amendment

of s. 1 of No. 8 of 1873,

(No. 10 of 1990.]

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 196.

Notice is hereby given that an application has been received from Messrs. SHEWAN & Co., of Hongkong, General Managers of the Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company, Limited, for the introduction in the Legislative Council of an Ordinance to provide for the construction of a single line of Tramway in Davis Street from the Rope Manufactory to the Praya.

Owners of property in the neighbourhood and other interested parties are requestel to lodge in the Colonial Secretary's Office any objections that they may wish to offer to the proposal within a period of thirty days from this date.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th April, 1892.

G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.