GASHOLDERS EXAMINATION ORDINANCE

GASHOLDERS EXAMINATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 54.

GASHOLDERS EXAMINATION.

To make provision for the periodical examination of gasholders.

[14th April, 1938.]

1. This Ordmance may be cited as the Gasholders Examination
Ordinance,

2. The Governor in Council may make regulations for the
periodical examination of gasholders.

3. Regulations under section 2 may provide that if the proprietors
of any gasholder in the Colony wilfully fail to carry out any,
requirement of any such regulation they, and where the proprietors are
a corporation every director and manager thereof, shall be severally
guilty of an offence, and such regulations may prescribe penalties
therefor:



Provided that no penalty so prescribed shall exceed a fine of one
thousand dollars.

4. The Governor in Council may at any time call upon the
proprietors of any gasholder in the Colony to show cause why the said
gasholder should not be declared unfit for use. If on being so called
upon the proprietors

fail to show such cause to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council,
the Governor in Council may by Order declare the gasholder unfit for
use; and if, whilst such order remains unrevoked, the gasholder is used
to hold gas the proprietors, and where the proprietors are a corporation
every director and manager thereof, shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.
1 of 1938. Short title. Regulations. Penalty for breach of regulations. Power of Governor in Council to declare a gasholder unfit for use.

1 of 1938. Short title. Regulations. Penalty for breach of regulations. Power of Governor in Council to declare a gasholder unfit for use.

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