THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.
(a) in the case of a ship being a passenger steamer, either—
(i) a general safety certificate; or
(ii) a short voyage safety certificate; or
(iii) a qualified safety certificate and passenger steamer's
exemption certificate;
being a certificate or certificates which by the terms thereof is or are applicable to the voyage on which the ship is about to proceed and to the trade in which she is for the time being engaged:
(b) in the case of a ship not being a passenger steamer, either-
(1) such certificate or certificates as would be required in her case by the foregoing provisions of this section if she were a passenger steamer; or
(ii) a wireless telegraphy certificate; or
(iii) a wireless telegraphy exemption certificate which by the terms thereof is applicable to the voyage on which the ship is about to proceed.
(2) If any ship to which this section applies proceeds, or attempts to proceed, to sea in contravention of this section-
(a) in the case of a ship being a passenger steamer, the master or owner of the steamer shall, without prejudice to any other remedy or penalty under the Merchant Shipping Acts or under the Ordinance of 1899 be liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for every passenger carried on board the steamer, and the master or owner of any tender by means of which passengers are taken on board the steamer shall for each offence be liable to a like penalty for every passenger so taken on board; and (b) in the case of a ship not being a passenger steamer, the master or owner of the ship shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(3) The master of every ship to which this section applies shall produce to the Harbour Master at the time a clearance for the ship is demanded for an international voyage, the certificate or certificates required by the foregoing provisions of this section to be in force when the ship proceeds to sea, and a clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until the said certificate or certificates are so produced.
(4) Where a passenger steamer's exemption certificate or wireless telegraphy exemption certificate issued in respect of any ship to which this section applies specifies any conditions on which the certificate is issued and those conditions are contravened, the master or owner of the ship shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(5) This section applies to British ships registered in Hong Kong, being passenger steamers or being ships of sixteen hundred tons gross tonnage or upwards.
15.-(1) A safety certificate, wireless telegraphy certificate, or Miscel- exemption certificate issued by the Governor shall not be in force laneous for more than one year from the date of its issue, nor after notice provisions is given by the Governor to the owner, agent, or master of the ship as to in respect of which it has been issued, that the Governor has cancelled the certificate.
(2) If a British ship registered in Hong Kong, in respect of which any such certificate has been issued, is absent from Hong Kong at the date when the certificate expires, the Governor, or any person authorised by him for the purpose, may, if it appears proper and reasonable so to do, grant such an extension of the certificate as will allow the ship to return to Hong Kong, but no such extension shall have effect for a period exceeding five months from the said date.
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(3) Every such certificate shall be issued in such form prescribed by the Rules made by the Board of Trade under the Merchant Shipping Acts for that purpose and may be combined in one document with a passenger certificate.
(4) Any such certificate, and any passenger certificate combined in one document with a safety certificate, may be signed on behalf of the Governor by any person authorised by the Governor
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