A BILL
ANNEX TO XCR (72)244
To
Amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
Short title.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant
Shipping (Amendment) Ordinance 1972.
Addition of new section 14A.
(Cap. 281.)
2. The principal Ordinance is amended in Part III
by adding, after section 14, the following new section
"Removal of discharged
seamen.
14A. (1) Except with the permission
of the master of the ship, no seaman who
has been lawfully discharged from his ship
shall be or remain on board the ship.
(2) Any seaman who, having been
lawfully discharged from his ship, does
not leave the ship on being requested so
to do by the master may be removed from
the ship by an authorized officer.
(3) In this section "authorized
officer" means any police officer of the
rank of inspector or above and any officer
of the Marine Department of the rank of
Assistant Marine Officer or above."
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