THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.
(c) on receipt of such a declaration, the Governor shall issue a certificate under subsection ten of section ten of the Ordinance of 1899, (which relates to the said number of passengers), containing only a statement of the number of passengers, which according to the declaration of the surveyor or surveyors such ship is fit to carry, distinguish- ing (if necessary) between the respective numbers to be carried on the deck and in the cabins, such number to be subject to such conditions and variations, according to the time of the year, the nature of voyage, the cargo carried, and other circumstances as the case may require and a certificate so issued shall have effect as a passenger steamer's certificate.
(2) Where there is produced in respect of any such passenger steamer a valid Safety Convention certificate, and also a certificate issued by or under the authority of the Government of the country to which the steamer belongs, showing the number of passengers which the steamer is fit to carry, and the Governor is satisfied that that number has been determined substantially in the same manner as in the case of a British steamer registered in Hong Kong, the Governor may if he thinks fit dispense with the survey of the steamer mentioned in the last foregoing subsection, so far as relates to ascertaining the number of passengers which the steamer is fit to carry, and direct that the last mentioned certificate shall have effect as a passenger certificate.
18. Where a valid Safety Convention certificate is produced in Miscellaneous respect of a Safety Convention passenger steamer not registered in privileges of Hong hong—
passenger steamers holding
(a) the steamer shall be exempt from the following enactments, Convention
namely, paragraphs (d) and (f) of subsection (1) of section certificate. two hundred and ninety of the principal Act (which relate to the equipment of emigrant ships), regulation eight of the sixth schedule, regulation seven of the fifth schedule and regulation twenty of the fourth schedule to the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance No. 30 of 1915 and subsections one, two, three, four, five and six of section thirteen of the Ordinance of 1899 (which relate to life-saving appliances); and
(b) the steamer shall not be deemed to be unsafe for the purposes of subsection five of section seventeen or section eighteen of the Ordinance of . 1899 by reason of the defective condition of her hull, equipment or machinery, unless it appears that the steamer cannot proceed to sea without danger to the passengers or crew owing to the fact that the actual condition of the steamer does not correspond substantially with the particulars stated in the certificate.
19-(1) Where a valid Safety Convention certificate is produced Wireless
telegraphy in respect of a Safety Convention ship not registered in Hong Kong,
provisions being a passenger steamer or being a ship of sixteen hundred tons applicable gross tonnage or upwards, then-
bolding
to ships
(a) if the certificate shows that the ship is wholly exempt from Convention
the provisions of the Safety Convention relating to wireless certificate. telegraphy, the ship shall be exempt from the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, in force in Hong Kong and from the provisions of the Wireless Telegraphy Rules;
(b) if the certificate shows that the ship is not wholly exempt from the said provisions of the Safety Convention, the following provisions of this section shall apply to the ship in lieu of the provisions of the said Act.
(2) Any Government surveyor may inspect the ship for the purpose of seeing that the wireless telegraph installation and the number of certified operators and watchers carried on
the ship correspond substantially with the particulars stated in the certificate.
(3) If it appears to the surveyor that the ship cannot proceed to sea without danger to the passengers or crew owing to the fact that the wireless telegraph installation or the number of operators or watchers does not correspond substantially with the said particulars, the surveyor shall give to the master notice in writing pointing out the deficiency and also pointing out what, in his opinion, is requisite to remedy the deficiency.
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