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1732 ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1883 .


Tramways.


Right of user 140. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance contained the
only acquired.
company shall not acquire any right other than that of user of the roads
along or across which they lay any tramway.

Power to 141. Nothing in this Ordinance shall limit the powers of the Police
Police to
regulate to regulate the passage of any traffic along or across any public road
traffic.
along or across which any tramway is laid down, and the Police may
exercise their powers as well on as off the tramway, and with respect as
well to the traffic of the company as to the traffic of other persons , and
in particular nothing in this Ordinance shall limit the power of the
Captain Superintendent of Police to make regulations under and exercise
the powers conferred on him by Ordinance No. 10 of 1869.

Rights of 142. Nothing in this Ordinance or in any regulation or bye-law
public
reserved. made hereunder shall take away or abridge the right of the public to
pass along or across every or any part of any public road along or across
which any tramway is laid , whether on or off the tramway, with carriages
not having flange-wheels, or wheels suitable only to run on the rail of
the tramway .

Savi for 143. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance contained the
general
Ordinances. company and any persons using the tramways shall be subject and

liable to the provisions of any general Ordinance now in force or which
may hereafter be passed in the Colony of Hongkong relating to tramways.
or by which any tax or duty may be granted or imposed for or in respect
of tramways, or the passengers or traffic conveyed . thereon , or to any
future revision or alteration under the Legislature of the said Colony of
the maximum rates of tolls or charges authorized by this Ordinance and
to any condition, regulation , or restriction , which may be imposed upon
the use of tramways or upon the use on tramways of animal power,
steam power , or any mechanical power, by any such general Ordinance
as aforesaid .

Reservation 144. The powers and privileges given by this Ordinance are so
of rights of
the Crown. given saving and reserving always the rights of Her Majesty and of all

bodies politic and corporate, and of all other persons and those claiming
by, from, and under them , except as is herein otherwise provided .


Suspending 145. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Ma
clause.
jesty's confirmation thereof is proclaimed by the Governor.