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(C.S.O. 1/5989/30 II.)
A BILL
[No. 47-18.7.34.-11.]
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Merchant
Shipping.
BR it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may he cited as the Merchant Shipping Short title. (No. 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1934.
of Ordinance
2. The Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899 is amended Amendment by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph No. 10 of (h) of section 2:-
1899,
8. 2 (h).
Geo. 5,
(h) "The Merchant Shipping Acts" means the Merchant cf. 22 Shipping Acts, 1894 te 1932 and includes all regulations c. 9, s. 74. thereunder.
3. Section 10 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, Amendment as amended by the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance of Ordin- 1932, is further amended by the addition of the following sub- of 1899, section at the end thereof :--
(26) If any person-
(a) knowingly and wilfully makes, or assists in making, or procures to be made, a false or fraudulent declaration or certificate required by or under this Ordinance or the Merchant Shipping Acts; or
(b) forges, assists in forging, procures to be forged, frau- dulently alters, assists in fraudulently altering, or procures to be fraudulently altered, any such declaration or certificate, or anything contained in, or any signature to any such declaration or certificate;
that person shall in respect of each offence be guilty of a misdemeanour.
ance No. 10
8. 10.
cf 57 and
58 Vict.
c.
60, s. 282, 5, c. 9, s. 71.
and 22 Geo.
Substitution
ance No. 10
4. Section 14 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, as amended by the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, for Ordin- 1932, and the heading thereto are repealed and the following of 1899, heading and section are substituted therefor :—
Inspection of vessels which are exempt from Part II of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932.
s. 14, and
heading.
load line
14. A Government surveyor may go on board and inspect Inspection any vessel which is exempt from Part II of the Merchant of non- Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, as vessels. extended to the Colony by Order of His Majesty in Council under section 64 thereof.
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