LAWS OF SOLOMON ISLANDS

[1996 EDITION]

CHAPTER 17
LIGHTING CONTROL

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TOTAL OR PARTIAL CESSATION OF LIGHTING

[18th July 1939]

7 of 1939
LN 46A of 1978

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Lighting Control Act.

Power to make rules

2. On any occasion which the Prime Minister 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 Prime Minister may make such rules 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 Solomon Islands.

Exoneration from liability of persons complying with rules

3. Compliance with any such express command or with any such request for co-operation 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.	

Penalty for refusal or failure to comply with mandatory rules

4. Any person who refuses or fails to comply with any such express command shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars.

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(No Subsidiary Legislation.)