The Emergency (lighting Control) Act

• Coming into Force: 19 January 1939
• Year: 1939
• Type of Document: Revised Statutes

EMERGENCY (LIGHTING

CONTROL)

1

Cap.

110.

Ad

a;;fL9:

THE EMERGENCY (LIGHTING CONTROL)

ACT

[192h

January,

195'9.1

1.

This

Act may be cited

as

the Emergency (Lightkg

short

title.

Control) Act.

2.

On any occasion which the Governor-General may

POWC~~O

consider to

be

an

occasion

of

emergency or public danger,

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and also whenever he may consider it necessary by way

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of

experiment or practice for any such occasion, the

Governor-General may make such regulations as he may

consider desirable providing, either by express command or

by request for co-operation, for the total or partial cessation

of

lighting in the Island.

any such request for co-operation

shall

exonerate any

i'zity

of

person

from any liability contractual

or

otherwise for

Ed&,s

damage resulting from such compliance, provided that

such

tviviLati0..

person has taken all other reasonable measures possible

to

avoid such damage.

maLC

3.

Compliance with any such express command

or

with

Exoneration

4.

Any person who refuses

or

fails

to comply with any

penalty

for

reiuaal

or

such express command shall be liable on summary

tailurc

to

comply

with

mPmdatory

conviction before a Resident Magistrate

to

a penalty not

exceeding two hundred dollars.

r:gdations.

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inclusion

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