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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 13, 1911.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
No. 4.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
3rd December, 1910.
SIR,-- With reference to Mr. Chamberlain's Circular of the 20th of January, 1897, and the Earl of Elgin's Circular of the 22nd of May, 1906, I have the honour to transmit to you, for such publication or other action as to you may appear desirable, a copy of an Order-in- Council of the 13th of October, 1910, prescribing new regulations for the prevention of collisions at sea, and rules relating to signals of distress.
I have, &c.,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
L. HARCOURT.
NOTE BY THE BOARD OF TRADE.
The Order-in-Council of 13th October, 1910, reproduces the regulations for preventing collisions at sea and the regulations relating to distress signals which have been in force since 1897, and also embodies, in articles 8 and 9 respectively, the regulations as to the lights of steam pilot vessels and the lights and signals of fishing-vessels which were enacted by Order-in-Council in 1892 and 1906 respec- tively. It also applies the regulations, with certain reservations, to the vessels of a large number of foreign countries.
No alteration has been made in the requirements of the regulations affecting British vessels. The previous Order-in-Council respecting collision regulations and signals of distress are now obsolete.
AT THE COURT AT SAINT JAMES'S,
THE 13TH DAY OF ОCTOBER, 1910.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
HEREAS by Section 418 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, His Majesty is empowered from time to time on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade by Order in Council to make regulations for preventing collisions at sea, in the said Act referred to as Collision Regulations:
And whereas by Section 424 of the said Act it is provided that whenever it is made to. appear to His Majesty in Council that the Government of any foreign country is willing that the said regulations or any of them should apply to the ships of that country when beyond the limits of British jurisdiction, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that those regulations shall, subject to any limitation of time, conditions and qualifications con- -tained in the Order, apply to the ships of the said foreign country, whether within British jurisdiction or not, aud that such ships shall for the purpose of such regulations be treated as if they were British ships:
And whereas by Section 434 of the said Act His Majesty is empowered from time to time by Order in Council to make rules as to signals of distress: