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[接上页] Cap 107 s 20 Protection of sewers, etc. Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 62 of 1999 s. 3 If the tramway or any works connected therewith interfere with any sewer, drain, watercourse or subway, or in any way affect the sewerage or drainage of Hong Kong the company shall not commence the construction of the tramway or works until it has given to the Director 14 days' previous notice in writing of its intention so to do, and has left with such notice all necessary particulars relating thereto, nor until the Director has signified his written approval of the same, unless he does not signify his approval, disapproval or other directions within 14 days after service of the said notice and particulars as aforesaid; and the company shall comply with the directions of the Director in the execution of the said works, and shall provide by new, altered or substituted works, in such manner as the Director may require, for the proper protection of and for preventing injury or impediment to the sewers, drains, watercourses, subways, sewerage or drainage hereinbefore referred to by or by reason of the tramway, and shall save harmless the Director against the expense occasioned thereby; and all such works shall be done by or under the superintendence of the Director at the cost and expense of the company, and when any new, altered or substituted works are completed by or at the cost or expense of the company under this Ordinance, the same shall thereafter be as completely under the control of the Director, and be maintained by him, as any other sewers, drains, watercourses, subways, sewerage or drainage. (Amended 50 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 33 of 1939 Schedule; 62 of 1999 s. 3) Cap 107 s 21 Protection of Government or telegraph cables or lines Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 62 of 1999 s. 3 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 Hong Kong 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; 62 of 1999 s. 3) Cap 107 s 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, where such traffic would otherwise interfere with such work, or shore up and secure such portion of the tramway at its own risk and cost during the execution of the work there: Provided that such work shall always be completed with all reasonable expedition; (Replaced 33 of 1939 Schedule) (e) such work so far as it immediately affects the tramway shall not be executed except under the superintendence of the company, unless the company does not give such superintendence at the time specified in the notice for the commencement of the work or permanently discontinues the same during the progress of the work, and such work shall be executed without cost to and to the reasonable satisfaction of the company. (Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 2 of 1912 Schedule) |