ADVERTISEMENTS REGULATION ORDINANCE, 1912

ADVERTISEMENTS REGULATION ORDINANCE, 1912

No. 19 of 1912.

An Ordinance to control the exhibition of advertisements.

[17th May, 1912.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Advertisements
Regulation Ordinance, 1912.

2. In this Ordinance
(a) 'Advertisement' includes any structure or apparatus
erected or intended only for the display of advertisements but
does not include any advertisement or structure or apparatus
which is not visible from any street, or from the waters of the
Colony, or from any other place to which the public have
access, or from any land or building not belonging to or in the
possession of the owner or occupier of the land or building on
or in which such structure or apparatus is erected or on or in,
which the advertisement is exhibited;
(b) 'Building' includes every house, hut, shed or roofed
inclosure, whether used for the purposes of human habitation or
for manufacture, storage, business or otherwise, and also every
wall, fence, roof, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame,
hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing stage or
bridge;
(c) 'Owner' includes any person holding premises direct
from the Crown and also any person for the time being receiv-
ing the rent of any premises whether on his, own behalf or on
that of any other person and where such owner as above

The provisions of this Ordhiance, which are set out in full in the Schedule
to, and re-enacted by, the Law Revision Ordinance, 1939, have been
rearranged and amplified.





defined cannot readily be found or is absent from the Colony
or is under disability the occupier shall for the purposes of this
Ordinance be deemed an owner;
(d) 'Sky sign' means any word, letter, model, sign,
device or representation in the nature of an advertisement,
announcement or direction, supported on or attached to any
post, pole, standard, framework or other support, wholly or in
part upon, over or above any building, structure or erection,
which, or any part of which, sky sign is visible against the
sky from some point in any public place in the Colony or in
the waters thereof, and includes all and every part of any such
post, pole, standard, framework or other support. 'Sky sign'
also includes any ballood, parachute, searchlight, flashlight or
other similar device meployed wholly or in part for the purposes
of any advertisement or announcement on, over or above any
buildinga, structure or erection of any kind or on or over any
public place in the Colony or in the waters thereof; but does not
include any flagstaff, pole, vane or weathercock. unlessadapted
or used wholly or in part for the purpose of any advertisement
or announcement.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make
regulations with regard to the following matters-

(a) the licensing, control, prohibition and removal of
advertisemeDts of any kind whatsoever

(b) the prescribing of fees to be charged in connexion with
any of the above matters.

4. Every person who fails to comply with or commits any
breach of any regulation made under this Ordinance shall upon
summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars and to an order for the removal of the advertise-
ment. Every person who fails to comply with any such order
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding
ten dollars a day for every day that he is in default and to
imprisonment for any term notexceeding three months.

5.-(1) If any person-

(a) against whom an order for the removal of an advertise-
ment is made by a magistrate ; or

(b) on whom a notice under the hand of the Clerk of






Councils is served requiring the removal of an advertisement on
such grounds as may be prescribed by regulations,

fails to remove the advertisement as required by such order or
notice, then without prejudice to the liability of such person to
any penalty for non-compliance with the order or the liability
of such person or owner for any breach of regulations, it shall
be lawful for any person authorized in that behalf by the Director
of Public Works at any time in the daytime to enter into and
upon the land or building on or in which the advertisement is
erected or exhibited and to remove or obliterate the advertisement.

It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works, the
Commissioner of Police or any persons deputed by either of
them for that purpose to enter at any time into and upon any
premises, and remove any sky sign erected or maintained in
contravention of regulations.

(3) The materials of any advertisement removed in pursu-
ance of this section shall be forfeited to the Crown.

(4) The Director of Public Works, the Commissioner of
Police and any person so authorized or deputed by either of
them as aforesaid shall not be held liable for any damage done
by him in course of the removal or obliteration of any advertise-
ment in pursuance of this section.

6.---(1) Any expenses incurred by the Director of Public
Works in consequence of any default in complying with an order
or notice requiring the removal of any advertisement shall be
deemed to be money paid for the use and at the request of the
person against whom the said order or the person or owner on
whom, the said notice was served and shall be recoverable from
him in the ordinary course of law at the suit of the Director of
Public Works.

(2) The provisions of the Crown Remedies Ordinance, 1875,
shall apply to the recovery of all such expenses and the certificate
required by that Ordinance shall be signed by the Director of
Public Works.

7. Any notice to be given under the provisions of this
Ordinance or any regulations thereunder may be served either
personally or by leaving the same at or by sending the same by





post to the last known place of business or residence in the
Colony of the person to be served and any notice sent by post
shall be deemed to be duly served at the time when it ought in
due course of post to be delivered at the address to which it is
sent: Provided that in addition to the foregoing means of
service a notice to be served upon the owner of any land or
building whereon any advertisement is erected or exhibited may
be served by affixing the same upon a conspicuous part of such
land or building.

No. 20 of 1912, incorporated in NO. 10 of 1902.

Not. 21, 22 and 23 of 1912, incorporated generally.

Nos. 24 and 25 of 1912, repealed by No. 43 Of 1912.

No. 26 of 1912, repealed by NO. 25 Of 1930.

No. 27 of 1912, repealed by No. 8 of 1933.
No. 28 of 1912, incorporated in No. 5 of 1865,
repealed by No. 32 of 1935.

No. 29 of 1912, incorporated in NO. 3 of 1870.

No. 30 of 1912, incorporated in No. 3 of 1890,
repealed by No. 41 of 1932.

No. 31 of 1912, repealed by No. 6 of 1913.

No. 32 of 1912, incorporated in No. 6 of 1900,
repealed by No. 7 of 1926.
No. 33 of 1912, incorporated in No. 3 of 1890,
repealed by No. 41 of 1932, and in
No. 9 of 1899.

No. 34 of 1912, in.corporated in No. 10 of 1899.
[Originally No. 19 of 1912. No. 3 of 1925. No. 6 of 1937. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretation. Regulations. Penalties. Power to Director of Public Works to enter premises and remove advertisements. Expenses of removal of advertisement by Director of Public Works and recovery thereof. Ordinance No. 6 of 1875. Service of notice. [5.12.30.] [24.3.33.]

[Originally No. 19 of 1912. No. 3 of 1925. No. 6 of 1937. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretation. Regulations. Penalties. Power to Director of Public Works to enter premises and remove advertisements. Expenses of removal of advertisement by Director of Public Works and recovery thereof. Ordinance No. 6 of 1875. Service of notice. [5.12.30.] [24.3.33.]

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