Enclosure No. 4
A BILL
To
Amend further the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Ordinance 1970.
2. Section 92 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following section—
"Certifi- cates of competency as trawling masters.
3.
92. (1) The holder of a certificate of competency as a trawling master which is not endorsed with the word "LIMITED" may, subject to the provisions of this Part, command a trawler on any voyage.
(2) The holder of a certificate of competency as a trawling master which is endorsed with the word “LIMITED” may command a trawler for the purpose only of fishing in an area bounded on the North by the parallel of 25 degrees North, on the South by the parallel of 15 degrees North and on the East by the meridian of 122 degrees East.
(3) The Director may, on the application of a person holding a certificate of competency as a trawling master which is endorsed with the word "LIMITED", exempt such person from the restriction specified in subsection (2).
(4) The holder of a certificate of competency as a trawling master, whether or not the certificate is endorsed with the word "LIMITED”, shall, in so far as he does not contravene the provisions of this sec- tion, be a duly certificated trawling master and the holder of a Board of Trade certificate of competency as skipper (full) or skipper (limited) shall be deemed to be a duly certificated trawling master subject to such conditions and limitations as the Director may specify in any particular case.".
Section 93 of the principal Ordinance is amended— (a) in subsection (1), by deleting "A trawler" and substitut-
ing the following-
"Subject to section 92, a trawler"; and
Short title.
Repeal and replacement of section 92 of principal Ordinance.
(Cap. 281.)
Amendment of section 93.
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