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List of ships entitled to excauption.
Amestot exempted mai ships,
Application
by Bound of Trade to
make security
Sufficient.
Application
to vary or with draw Sivurity,
Onler for withdrawal.
Nettone to arresting
provisional order of withdrawal.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 12, 1909.
12. As soon as may be after security is given in accordance with an order of the Court, the owner shall lodge in the Admiralty Registry a list of the ships actually engaged in the postal service, in respect of which the security has been given, mentioning the tonnage and port of registry of each ship, and shall also from time to time, as often as any ships are added or substituted for the purposes of that postal service, lodge in the Admiralty Registry a corrected list as aforesaid. A copy of every such list shall be transmitted to the Board of Trade for publication.
18. If notwithstanding its exemption any exempted mail ship is arrested in the United Kingdom, the Board of Trade on being informed by the owner of such arrest and of the arresting authority, and on being satisfied that the ship is an exempted mail ship, shall forthwith send a special notice to the arresting authority informing him that the ship is an exempted mail ship, and as such entitled to release.
Applications to make security sufficient, or to vary and withulraw.
14. Every application to the Court by the Board of Trade to require that any security shall be made sufficient, shall recite or describe the previous orders of the Court (if any) relating to the security, and shall also state the nature and amount of the security for the time being under the control of the Court, and the names and tonuage of the ships to which the security for the time being applies, and the causes, whether pending claims, variation of the conditions of the service or other- wise, whereby it appears to the Board of Trade that the security has become insufficient, and such application shall be accompanied by such evidence (if any) on affidavit or otherwise as may be necessary in support of any statements made therein which are not within the cognizance of the Board of Trade.
15. An application by an owner to vary or withdraw any security shall recite or describe the previous orders of the Court relating to the security, and the nature and amount of the security for the time being, and in case of an application to vary shall state the grounds upon which, aud the mode in which, the owner desires the security to be varied. Every application to vary shall be accompanied by such evidence on affidavit or otherwise as may be necessary in support of the application.
16. An order of the Court for the withdrawal of security shall, in the first instance, be provisional, but the Court may, subject to these Rules, make the order absolute on the application of the owner.
17. When a provisional order has been made for the withdrawal of security, authorities of the Admiralty Registrar shall give notice thereof to the Board of Trade, and there- upon the Board of Trade shall publish notices to all arresting authorities, in like manner as herein-before provided, reciting such order and notifying that, after the day named in the notice (such day not being earlier than a reasonable time after the publication of the notice), the Court may, on the application of the owner, make the order absolute, unless it appears to the Court that any pending claims exist for the purposes of which the security is required.
Notient resser of comį tion.
Iroof or exemption and vessel.
Cesser of Exemption.
18. Where on the application of the Board of Trade an order is made that any security shall be made sufficient within a time fixed, and default is made therein, or where an order for the withdrawal of any security is made absolute, the Admiralty Registrar shall forthwith notify the Board of Trade of such default or order absolute, as the case may be, and the Board of Trade shall thereupon publish a notice to the effect that the mail ships in respect of which such default is made or such order is made absolute, have since the date of the default or order absolute, as the case may be, ceased to be exempted mail ships.
19. Without prejudice to any other mode of proof a notice published by the Board of Trade containing the names of the exempted mail ships of any owner, or until such notice is published a like netice declaring that all ships of the owner engaged in the postal service to which any security applies are exempted mail ships, shall be evidence of the exemption of any mail ship named in such notice or proved to have been at the date of an arrest actually engaged in the said postal service, but such evidence may be rebutted by any subsequently published notice