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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.
Duty to produce Convention certificate.
Modification
of existing provisions for ex- emption of ships not registered in Hong Kong.
6 Edw. 7. c. 48.
5, c. 37.
(4) Every notice so given shall be communicated in manner directed by the Governor to the Harbour Master at the time the ship may seek to obtain a clearance and to the consular officer for the country to which the ship belongs at or nearest to the port where the ship is for the time being, and a clearance shall not be granted to the ship, and the ship shall be detained, until a certificate under the hand of a surveyor is produced to the effect that the deficiency has been remedied.
20. The master of every Safety Convention ship not registered in Hong Kong, being a passenger steamer or being a ship of sixteen hundred tons gross tonnage or upwards, shall produce a valid Safety Convention certificate to the Harbour Master at the time a clearance for the ship is demanded in respect of an international voyage from a port in Hong Kong after the expiration of twelve months from the commencement of this Part of this Act and a clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until such a certificate is so produced.
21.--(1) The proviso to section four of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, (which provides for the exemption, in certain circum- stances, of foreign ships from the provisions of the principal Act relating to life-saving appliances) and any Order in Council made the thereunder shall, on the expiration of twelve months from commencement of this Part of this Act, cease to apply to Safety Convention passenger steamers plying on international voyages.
(2) The Merchant Shipping (Equivalent Provisions) Act, 1925, 15 & 16 Geo. (which provides for the exemption, in certain circumstances, of foreign ships and British ships registered outside the United Kingdom from certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts) and any Order in Council made thereunder shall, on the expiration of twelve months from the commencement of this Part of this Act, cease to apply to-
Duties as to watertight doors and
other con- trivances.
Submersion
of sub-
division load lines.
(a) Safety Convention ships, being passenger steamers plying on international voyages, in respect of the exemption of such ships from any provision of the Merchant Shippi Acts relating to the survey and certification of passenger steamers, to life-saving appliances or to wireless telegraphy;
and
(b) other Safety Convention ships so plying, in respect of the exemption of such ships from any provision of the Merchant Shipping Acts relating to wireless telegraphy.
(3) Section two hundred and eighty-four of the principal Act (which provides for the recognition of colonial passenger steamers' certificates) and any Order in Council made thereunder, and section three hundred and sixty-three of that Act (which provides for the exemption of foreign passenger steamers from survey) shall, on the expiration of twelve months from the commencement of this Part of this Act, cease to apply to Safety Convention passenger steamers plying on international voyages.
Miscellaneous Provisions for furthering Safety of Life at Sea.
22. The rules set out in the Third Schedule to this Act with respect to watertight doors and other contrivances shall be complied with in every British passenger steamer registered in Hong Kong. and if any of the said rules is contravened in the case of any such steamer, the master thereof shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
23. (1) Where-
(a) a British passenger steamer registered in Hong Kong has been marked with subdivision load lines, that is to say, load lines indicating the depth to which the steamer may be loaded having regard to the extent to which she is subdivided and to the space for the time being allotted to passengers; and
(b) the appropriate subdivision load line, that is to say, the subdivision load line appropriate to the space for the time being allotted to passengers on the steamer, is lower than the load line indicating the maximum depth to which the steamer is for the time being entitled under the provisions of Part II of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, in force in Hong Kong to be loaded;