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21. Protection of Government or telegraph cables or lines
If any cable or line used for the purpose of telegraphic, telephonic or electric signalling communication, now or hereafter to be constructed and worked in the Colony by a Government department or by Cable and Wireless Limited, or any aerial or subterranean line connected with any such cable, or the sheathings, coverings or supports of any such cable or line, be injuriously affected by the construction or working of the undertaking, or by electrolysis or other cause arising or resulting from the undertaking, the company shall pay the expenses of all such alterations in or additions to such cable, line, sheathings, coverings or supports as may be necessary to remedy such injurious affection. For the purposes of this section a cable or line shall be deemed to be injuriously affected if telegraphic, telephonic or electric communication by means of such cable or line is, whether through induction or otherwise, in any manner affected by any act or work of the company.
(Amended 32 of 1902 s. 1; 50 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 17 of 1913 s. 2; 33 of 1939 Schedule)
22. Rights of departments, etc., to open roads
Nothing in this Ordinance shall take away or abridge any power to open or break up any road along or across which the tramway is laid or any other power now vested in any department or person for the doing of any matter or thing which such department or person is authorized to do, but in the exercise of such power all such departments and persons shall be subject to the following restrictions-
(Amended 50 of 1911 s. 4; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 21 of 1912 s. 5; 33 of 1939 Schedule)
(a) they shall cause as little detriment or inconvenience to the company as circumstances admit;
(b) before they commence any work whereby the traffic on the tramway will be interrupted they shall (except in cases of urgency, in which case notice of the commencement of such work shall be given to the company within 24 hours after such commencement) give to the company and the Director notice of their intention to commence such work, specifying the time at which they will begin to do so, such notice to be given 24 hours at least before the commencement of the work;
(Amended 33 of 1939 Schedule)
(c) they shall not be liable to pay to the company any compensation for loss of traffic occasioned thereby, or for the reasonable exercise of the powers so vested in them as aforesaid;
(d) whenever for the purpose of facilitating such work any such department or person so requires, the company shall either stop traffic on that portion of the tramway to which such notice refers,
1989 Ed.]
Tramway
[CAP. 107
15
21. Protection of Government or telegraph cables or lines
If any cable or line used for the purpose of telegraphic, telephonic or electric signalling communication, now or hereafter to be constructed and worked in the Colony by a Government department or by Cable and Wireless Limited, or any aerial or subterranean line connected with any such cable, or the sheathings, coverings or supports of any such cable or line, be injuriously affected by the construction or working of the undertaking, or by electrolysis or other cause arising or resulting from the undertaking, the company shall pay the expenses of all such alterations in or additions to such cable, line, sheathings, coverings or supports as may be necessary to remedy such injurious affection. For the purposes of this section a cable or line shall be deemed to be injuriously affected if telegraphic, telephonic or electric communication by means of such cable or line is, whether through induction or otherwise, in any manner affected by any act or work of the company.
(Amended 32 of 1902 s. 1; 50 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 17 of 1913 s. 2; 33 of 1939 Schedule)
22. Rights of departments, etc., to open roads
Nothing in this Ordinance shall take away or abridge any power to open or break up any road along or across which the tramway is laid or any other power now vested in any department or person for the doing of any matter or thing which such department or person is authorized to do, but in the exercise of such power all such departments and persons shall be subject to the following restrictions- (Amended 50 of 1911 s. 4; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 21 of
1912 s. 5; 33 of 1939 Schedule)
(a) they shall cause as little detriment or inconvenience to the
company as circumstances admit;
(b) before they commence any work whereby the traffic on the tramway will be interrupted they shall (except in cases of urgency, in which case notice of the commencement of such work shall be given to the company within 24 hours after such com- mencement) give to the company and the Director notice of their intention to commence such work, specifying the time at which they will begin to do so, such notice to be given 24 hours at least before the commencement of the work; (Amended 33 of 1939 Schedule)
(c) they shall not be liable to pay to the company any compensation for loss of traffic occasioned thereby, or for the reasonable exercise of the powers so vested in them as aforesaid;
(d) whenever for the purpose of facilitating such work any such department or person so requires, the company shall either stop traffic on that portion of the tramway to which such notice refers,
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