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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 24, 1936.
Penalties.
Interpreta- tion.
Provided that-
(a) the foregoing provisions shall not apply to the employment of a young person in a ship in which only members of the same family are employed; and
(b) a superintendent or consular officer may on the ground of urgency authorise a young person to be employed in a ship notwithstanding that no such certificate as aforesaid has been delivered to the master of the ship, but a young person in whose case any such authorisation is given shall not be employed beyond the first port at which the ship calls after the young person has embarked thereon, except subject to and in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section.
(2) A certificate under this section shall remain in force for a period of twelve months from the date on which it is granted and no longer:
Provided that, if the said period of twelve months expires at some time during the course of the voyage of the ship in which the young person is employed, the certificate shall remain in force until the end of the voyage.
4.-(1) If any young person is employed in any ship in contravention of the provisions of this Act, the master of the ship shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, not exceeding five pounds, and where a young person is taken into employment in any ship in contravention of the provisions of this Act on the production by, or with the privity of, the parent of a false or forged certificate or on a false representa- tion by the parent that the young person is of an age at which such employment is not in contravention of the said provisions that parent shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
(2) If the master of a ship fails to keep such a register as is required to be kept by him under this Act, or, on being so required by an officer of the Board of Trade or any other person having power to enforce compliance with the pro- visions of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1923, refuses or neglects to produce for inspection by that officer or person any such register as aforesaid or any certificate delivered to him under this Act, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
5. In this Act—
The expression "young person" means a person who is under the age of eighteen years:
The expression "ship" means any sea-going ship or boat of any description which is registered in the United Kingdom as a British ship, and includes any British fishing-boat entered in the fishing-boat register, but does not include any tug, dredger, sludge vessel, barge, or other craft whose ordinary course of navigation does not extend beyond the seaward limits of the jurisdiction of the harbour authority of the port at which such vessel is regularly employed, if and so long as such vessel is engaged in her ordinary occupation.