The Lighting Control Ordinance

l o£1938. Short title. Power to make Order in Council. Exoneration from liability of persons complying with Order. Penalty for refusal or failure to comply with Order. Cap. 167] Lighting Control CHAPTER 167. LIGHTING CONTROL. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. SECTION.

CHAPTER 167. LIGHTING CONTROL. An Ordinance to Provide for the Total or Partial Cessation of Lighting in the Colony by Order of the Governor in Council on Occasions of Emergency or Public Danger or by way of Experiment or Practice for such Occasions. (10TH JUNE, 1938.] 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Lighting Control Ordinance. 2. On any occasion which the Governor in Council may consider to be an occasion of emergency or public danger, and also whenever he may consider it necessary by way of experiment or practice for any such occasion, the Governor in Council may make such Order as he may consider desirable providing for the total or partial cessation of lighting in the Colony. 3. Compliance with the provisions of any such Order shall exonerate any person from any liability, contractual or otherwise, for damage resulting from such compliance, provided that such person has taken all other reasonable measures possible to avoid such damage. 4. Any person who refuses or fails to comply with the provisions of any such Order shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction thereof, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.