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any part thereof or of its undertaking or any part thereof to any other person or grant any sub-licence in respect of the concession; and the Government shall not during the continuance of the concession permit any person other than the company to place or maintain telephone lines or telephone wires or cables within the Colony or the waters thereof, except in the case of the following telephone lines, namely-
• (a) all telephone lines whatsoever which were bona fide in operation on the 26th day of June, 1925; and
• (b) such telephone lines as may be constructed or maintained by the Colonial Government or by the Imperial Government in connexion with their Colonial and Imperial services; and
• (c) telephone lines constructed or maintained by Cable and Wireless, Limited, and the Great Northern Telegraph Company, Limited, in accordance with their agreements with or any licence from the Colonial or Imperial Governments or any modification or renewal thereof; and
• (d) such telephone lines as may be installed and maintained by any person solely for the private use of such person in his business:
Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council or such person as he may authorize in that behalf, at any time during the five years preceding the termination of this concession, to execute and do any works of a like nature to those specified in section 8 and any other works which the Governor in Council may think necessary or desirable for the purpose of continuing the supply of public telephonic communication after the termination of the concession.
48. The company shall during the whole term of the concession carry on its operations and use every endeavour to develop its system as though the concession were perpetual.
Company to operate as if tenure were perpetual.
49.-(1) It shall be lawful but not obligatory for the Government by notice in writing to the company, given not less than five years previous to the date of the termination of the concession, to require the company to continue the supply of telephonic communication in like manner and upon like terms
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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any part thereof or of its undertaking or any part thereof to any other person or grant any sub-licence in respect of the con- cession; and the Government shall not during the continuance of the concession permit any person other than the company to place or maintain telephone lines or telephone wires or cables within the Colony or the waters thereof, except in the case of the following telephone lines, namely-
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(a) all telephone lines whatsoever which were bona fide in operation on the 26th day of June, 1925; and
(b) such telephone lines as may be constructed or maintained by the Colonial Government or by the Imperial Government in connexion with their Colonial and Imperial services; and
(c) telephone lines constructed or maintained by Cable and Wireless, Limited, and the Great Northern Telegraph Company, Limited, in accordance with their agreements with or any licence from the Colonial or Imperial Governments or any modification or renewal thereof; and
(d) such telephone lines as may be installed and maintained by any person solely for the private use of such person in his business:
Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council or such person as he may authorize in that behalf, at any time during the five years preceding the termination of this conces- sion, to execute and do any works of a like nature to those specified in section 8 and any other works which the Governor in Council may think necessary or desirable for the purpose of continuing the supply of public telephonic communication after the termination of the concession.
48. The company shall during the whole term of the concession carry on its operations and use every endeavour to develop its system as though the concession were perpetual.
Company to operate as if
tenure were perpetual.
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49.-(1) It shall be lawful but not obligatory for the Procedure to Government by notice in writing to the company, given not be adopted
on expiration less than five years previous to the date of the termination of of term of the concession, to require the company to continue the supply concession. of telephonic communication in like manner and upon like terms
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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