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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 1, 1911.
Ordinance No. 52 of 1911.- An Ordinance to amend the Peace Preservation Or- dinance, 1886.
Ordinance No. 53 of 1911.-An Ordinance to provide for the registration of Chi- nese Partnerships, and to enable partners therein. to register and thereby to limit their liability. Ordinance No. 54 of 1911.-An Ordinance to make provision for impounding
stray animals and for the disposal thereof. Ordinance No. 55 of 1911,––An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Stamps
and Stamp Duty.
Ordinance No. 56 of 1911.—An Ordinance to amend the Stamp Duties Manage-
ment Ordinance, 1911.
Ordinance No. 57 of 1911.--An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Trustees of the Union Church at Victoria in this Colony.
HONGKONG.
No. 48 oF 1911.
An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, and certain Ordinances amending the same.
F. D. LUGARD,
LS
Governor.
Short title
tion.
[29th November, 1911.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Merchant and construc- Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1911," and shall be read and construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Ordin- ance, 1899, (hereinafter called "the Principal Ordinance"), and this Ordinance and the Principal Ordinance together with the Ordinances amending the same may hereafter be cited as "The Merchant Shipping Ordinances, 1899 to 1911".
Adds a new proviso to
2. Section 4 sub-section (2) of the Principal Ordinance as amended by the Merchant Shipping Amendment Or- section 4 (2) dinances, 1905 and 1909, is hereby further amended by of Ordinance the addition thereto of a further proviso as follows :-
No. 10 of
1899.
Amends
"Provided also that any steam trawler or other fishing vessel propelled by mechanical power other than oars or sails regularly engaged in trawling upon the high seas from the Colony shall also be deemed to comply with the requirements of this sub-section if it is pro- vided with a duly certificated Trawling Master or a master possessing at least a River Trade certificate and an engineer possessing a certi- ficate of competency from the Harbour Master of Hongkong."
3. Section 26 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby section 26 of amended by the deletion of the comina at the end of sub- sub-section (/) of sub-section (1) thereof and by the sub- stitution therefor of a semi-colon followed by the word "or" and by the addition thereafter of the following sub- sub-section :-
Ordinance No. 10 of 1899.
Refusing or *neglecting to
Day Fares
"(g.) if any person hiring any vessel refuses or Leglects on demand by the person in charge of such vessel to pay lawful fare,”.