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(c) That no individual light-source in the shop window exceeds
in light output that of a 60 watt tungsten filament general
service electric lamp.

Order No. 7 : Seaside Abodes.

1. In this order, unless the context otherwise requires,
   “Abode” includes any building, house, bach, caravan,
   tent, or structure, whether or not completely enclosed,
   whether movable or fixed to the soil, and irrespective
   of the material of which it is made:
   “Seaside abode” means any abode at a seaside holiday
   resort that may be sited for the night at a place that is
   visible from the open sea, or that might, if its windows
   were not suitably screened, contribute to sky glow that
   might be visible from the open sea:
   “Owner of any seaside abode” means the person who lets
   the abode for short periods, whether he be the true owner
   or a lessee or other tenant of the true owner.

2. The owner of any seaside abode, before giving possession
   hereafter of the whole or any part thereof to any other person
   or persons, shall fit or provide a blackout screen for each window
   and skylight thereof, and thereafter shall maintain every such
   blackout screen in good repair and condition for use by all persons
   occupying, or who may occupy, such seaside abode.

3. The occupier of every seaside abode for which the owner
   has provided blackout screens shall, before yielding up vacant pos-
   session thereof, put every blackout screen provided for the abode
   in good order and condition.

PART III.—PROVISIONS FOR LIGHTING RESTRICTIONS DURING
PERIODS OF EMERGENCY.

EXTERNAL LIGHTING.

Order No. 8 : Centralized Switch Control.

1. In every external lighting system, except where exemption
   in writing is given by the Controller, provision shall be made so that
   every light may be disconnected immediately upon the sounding
   of any emergency warning signal.

2. Road and street lighting circuits in any lighting system shall
   be so grouped that they can be immediately switched off on the
   sounding of any emergency warning signal.

3. For the purposes of this order the expression “external
   lighting system” includes road and street lighting, harbour wharf
   lighting, yard lighting, external premises lighting, road traffic
   signal lighting, and tramway track lighting.

Order No. 9 : Torches.

1. Any person may, for any necessary purpose, use a hand
   torch-light during any period of emergency so long as the light so
   used complies with the provisions of clause 2 hereof.

2. Every torch used during any period of emergency shall
   have the aperture through which light is emitted totally obscured
   with the exception of a circular area of ½ in. diameter, covered
   with a diffusing medium equivalent in light obscuration properties
   to not less than those of a single thickness of white tissue paper.

Order No. 10 : Aids to Movement.

At every place to which the public have unrestricted access
and at which the interests of public safety usually require the
provision of special warning lights, or of added lighting, provision
for safety shall be made by the responsible person or authority
by means of white painted surfaces, or white painted barriers, to
give warning of the danger.

Order No. 11 : Permitted Lights.

Nothing in this part of these Orders shall apply to any lights
expressly permitted or required to be displayed under the Lighting
Restrictions Emergency Regulations 1941, or by direction of the
Controller.

INTERNAL LIGHTING.

Order No. 12 : Provision for Blacked-out Space.

1. Every occupier of premises shall forthwith make, and
   at all times hereafter maintain, provision for the complete blacking
   out at any time for an indeterminate number of hours of a room or
   rooms that provide enough accommodation for the greatest number
   of persons that may be in the premises at any time during hours
   of darkness.

2. In all premises where any person or persons may be required
   to work during any period of emergency every window and every
   skylight and every doorway shall be provided with a blackout
   screen which can be placed in position immediately on the sounding
   of any emergency warning signal.

3. In any premises, other than a dwellinghouse, apartment,
   boardinghouse, flat, lodging, or hotel, that are not used during
   hours of darkness, or in respect of which a scheme of evacuation
   in any period of emergency has been approved by the Chairman
   of the Emergency Precautions Service in the district in which
   the premises are situated, the Chairman may, in writing signed by
   him, exempt the occupier of the premises from the requirements of
   clause 1 hereof: Provided that, notwithstanding any such exemption,
   the occupier shall provide sufficient blacked-out space for the
   accommodation of all persons required to be on duty or directed
   to remain on the premises during any period of emergency.

4. If in the case of any premises the Controller at any time
   orders that provision be made immediately for the complete blacking
   out of those premises, such order shall be deemed to require that
   provision, as required by clause 1 hereof, be made in respect of the
   whole of the premises or such parts thereof as the order may
   specify.

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PART IV.—SPECIAL PROVISIONS AFFECTING PUBLIC SERVICES.

Order No. 13 : Detection and Repair of Line Faults.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other Order,
any authorized officer of an Electric Supply Authority, Tramway
Authority, or Government Department, while engaged in locating
and repairing any break or fault in any telephone, telegraph, or
electric line, may use not more than one spotlight either during
or outside periods of emergency. The use of every such spotlight
shall be as sparing as possible, and shall be restricted to the work of
locating and repairing such faults and breaks.

Order No. 14 : Signal Lights.

1. Subject to the provisions of clause 2 of this Order, nothing
   in Parts I, II, and III hereof shall apply to traffic-signal lights of
   any railway or tramway.

2. As far as is practicable and consistent with safe conduct of
   traffic, every such light shall be shrouded and the power of the light-
   source reduced.

PART V.—PROVISIONS RELATING TO TRAMWAY SERVICES OUTSIDE
PERIODS OF EMERGENCY.

Order No. 15 : Tram-car Lighting.

1. Every interior light in any tram-car, whether it is inside the
   cabin or in the open compartment, shall be so shrouded that no
   light-source may be seen from any position outside the tram-car.

2. The degree of illumination inside the tram-car shall not
   exceed 1·25 foot candles as measured on a horizontal plane at seat-
   level, nor be less than 0·75 of a foot candle at any point in the
   passageways between seats, as so measured.

3. The brightness of any illuminated destination and route sign
   on any tram-car shall be no more than is required for the inscription
   on it to be just legible at night, under the conditions of street
   lighting permitted under Part II of these Orders, to persons of
   normal vision standing at a distance of 100 ft. in front of the sign.

Order No. 16 : Tram Stop Indicators.

Every tram stop along every tram-car route in every area
visible from the open sea shall be identified by a light-source that
is coloured and illuminated and of a size and brightness just
sufficient for adjacent stop indicators to be readily visible at half
the distance between the tram stops.

Order No. 17 : Aids to Vision.

1. Every window in the partition between the driver and
   passenger accommodation of every tram-car shall be covered by a
   screen sufficient to prevent any image of the interior appearing in
   the windscreen.

2. The front windscreen of every tram-car shall be equipped
   with an efficient windscreen wiper to prevent interference with the
   driver's vision by weather conditions.

3. In every area visible from the open sea both points giving
   entry to any loop line or crossover shall be enclosed within a circular
   area painted white, and having a diameter of not less than 5 ft. in
   the case of tracks 3 ft. 6 in. wide, and not less than 6 ft. 6 in. in
   the case of tracks 4 ft. 8 in. wide, or shall be indicated by the painting
   of white marks not less effective than those described herein.

PART VI.—SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN PLACES
OUTSIDE PERIODS OF EMERGENCY.

Order No. 18 : Partial Blackout.

1. This order shall apply with respect to the following places:
   The Cities of Auckland, Lower Hutt, Wellington, and
   Dunedin, and the Boroughs of Birkenhead, Devonport,
   Northcote, Gisborne, Napier, New Plymouth, Petone,
   Eastbourne, Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Port Chalmers,
   Greymouth, Westport, and Picton, together with such
   portions of the counties surrounding the above cities
   or boroughs as are visible from within the harbour or
   roadstead.

2. Upon the order of the officer of the Army or Navy in charge
   of the area in which any of the places mentioned in clause 1 of this
   Order is situated,
   (a) All road and street lights and all harbour, wharf, ship, and
   railway yard lights in that place shall immediately be
   disconnected and extinguished; and
   (b) As soon as the street and harbour lights are so disconnected
   and extinguished the driver of every vehicle that is
   travelling on any road or street where its lights might
   be seen from any point in any harbour shall park the
   vehicle at the side of the roadway, and extinguish all
   lights on or in the vehicle, and the driver or other person
   in charge of any vehicle that is already parked shall
   extinguish all lights on or in the vehicle:
   Provided that nothing in paragraph (b) of this clause shall
   apply with respect to any vehicle—
   (a) Being at the time used for the purposes of any emergency
   precautions service; or
   (b) Used for the purposes of any fire brigade and being at the
   time used on urgent fire service; or
   (c) Used as an ambulance, and being at the time used on urgent
   ambulance service: or
   (d) Conveying a constable or a traffic inspector or a member of
   any of His Majesty’s Forces engaged on urgent business
   in the execution of his duty.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of August, 1942.
F. T. M. KISSEL, Dominion Lighting Controller.