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(No. 2: 6.6.35.-8.]
Short title.
New paragraph (aa) for Ordinance No. 10 of 1899, s. 2.
Substitution for Ordin-
ance No. 10
of 1899,
s. 2 (/)
and (0).
C.S.O. 2038/14 III.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend further the law relating to Merchant
Shipping.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1935.
2. Section 2 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended-
(i) by the insertion of the following paragraph (aa) im- mediately after paragraph (a) thereof :-
(aa) "Governor" includes, in relation to any purpose of this Ordinance, any person authorised by the Governor for that purpose.
(ii) by the repeal of paragraph (j) thereof and the sub- stitution of the following paragraph:-
6) "Passenger" includes any person carried in a ship other than the master and crew, and the owner, his family and 57 & 58 Vict. servants and persons on board the ship either in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, dis- tressed or other persons or by reason of any circumstance which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented or forestalled.
c. 60, s. 267,
22 Geo. 5, c. 9, s. 33.
Amendment
of Ordin-
ance No. 10 of 1899, s. 10 (2).
Amendment
of Ordin- ance No. 10
of 1899,
s. 10 (4).
(iii) by the repeal of paragraph (o) thereof and the sub- stitution of the following paragraph
(o) "Steamer" or "Steamship" means any vessel pro- pelled by steam.
3. Section 10 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended by the addition of the following proviso at the end thereof:
Provided that paragraphs (a) and (b) of this sub-section shall cease to apply to Safety Convention passenger ships plying on international voyages on the expiration of twelve months from the coming into operation of any Order of His Majesty in Council, under section 36 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932. extending the provisions of Part I of that Act to the Colony.
4. Section 10 (4) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended by the addition of the following words at the end thereof :-
Such Government surveyors may be classified as Ship Surveyors, Engineer Surveyors and Wireless Telegraphy Surveyors.