[No. 33-18.5.34.-4.]
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to provide for levying in Hong Kong colonial light dues in respect of certain lighthouses and of a buoy on or near the coasts of the Bahamas and the Leeward Islands.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Colonial (Bahamas Short title. and Leeward Islands) Light Dues Ordinance, 1934
57 & 58 Vict.
2. In exercise of its powers under section 670 (2) of Signification
of opinion the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, the legislature of Hong of legislature Kong hereby signifies its opinion that the dues fixed by the under Order of His Majesty in Council of the 17th day of December, c. 60, 1931, (a copy of which is set out in the Appendix to this s. 670 (2). Ordinance) or such other dues as may from time to time be Appendix. substituted therefor by His Majesty in Council, ought to be levied and paid in the Colony of Hong Kong, and such dues as aforesaid shall be levied and collected in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance in all cases in which the dues payable have not previously been paid in the United Kingdom or in some other British possession in respect of the occasion for which such dues are claimed.
3. The dues payable under this Ordinance shall be Procedure. collected and dealt with by the Harbour Master in accordance with such instructions as he may from time to time receive from the Board of Trade.
Appendix.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 17TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1931.
PRESENT,
[s. 2.]
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Section 670 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, it is provided that where any lighthouse, buoy or beacon has been erected or placed on or near the coasts of any British possession by or with the consent of the legislature. of that possession His Majesty may by Order in Council fix such dues (in that Act referred to as colonial light dues) to be paid in respect of that lighthouse, buoy or beacon by the owner or master of every ship which passes the same and derives benefit therefrom as His Majesty may deem reasonable and may by like Order increase, diminish or repeal such dues, and those dues shall from the time mentioned in the Order be leviable throughout His Majesty's dominions and further that colonial light dues shall not be levied in any British possession unless the legislature of that possession has by address to the Crown or by Act or Ordinance duly passed signified its opinion that the dues ought to be levied :