THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.
30.—(1) The master of a British ship registered in Hong Kong, Careful when ice is reported on or near his course, shall at night either navigation proceed at a moderate speed or change his course so as to keep near ice. amply clear of the ice reported and of the area of danger.
(2) If the master of any such ship fails to comply with this section, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
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34. Where the Governor is required by this Part of this Act to Power to give effect to, or implement, any provision of the Safety Convention rules and by any regulations, and that provision is amended in pursuance of regulations Article sixty-one of that Convention, the Governor may amend the to corre- regulations accordingly.
spond with amendments of Safety Convention
38.-(1) In this Part of this Act the following expressions have General. the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:-
"Board of Trade" means the Lords of the Committee for the time being of H.M. Privy Council appointed for the considera. tion of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations;
"Contravention" includes, in relation to any provision. failure to comply with that provision, and the expression travenes" shall be construed accordingly;
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"Construction regulations" means the regulations made by the Governor under subsection six of section ten of the Ordinance of 1899 prescribing the matters with respect to which a Govern- ment Surveyor must be satisfied before he states in a declaration of survey that a passenger steamer is fit to ply on :-
(1) Any international voyage
(2) A short international voyage
(3) An international coasting voyage (4) A special passenger trade voyage.
"Country to which the Safety Convention applies" means-—- (a) a country the Government of which has been declared by His Majesty in Council to have ratified, or acceded to, the Safety Convention, and has not been so declared to have denounced that Convention;
(b) a country to which it has been so declared that the Safety Convention has been applied under the provisions of Article sixty-two thereof, not being a country to which it has been so declared that that Convention has ceased to apply under the provisions of that Article;
"Declaration of survey' means a declaration made under ́ section ten of the Ordinance of 1899;
"Governor' means the Governor of Hong Kong;
"International voyage" means a voyage from a port in one country to a port in another country, either of those countries being a country to which the Safety Convention applies, "short international voyage" means an international
voyage in the course of which a ship does not go more than two hundred miles from land, and "international coasting voyage" means an inter- national voyage in the course of which a ship does not go more than twenty miles from land, so however that for the purpose of this provision—
(a) no account shall be taken of any deviation by a ship from her intended voyage due solely to stress of weather or any other circumstance which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have prevented or forestalled; and
(b) every colony, overseas territory, protectorate or territory under suzerainty, and every territory in respect of which a mandate has been accepted on behalf of the League of Nations, shall be deemed to be a separate country; "Merchant Shipping Acts" means the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1928, and this Act;
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