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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 1936.
(e) If any machinery is fitted on board a ship while the passenger certificate is in force the fee for surveying such machinery is $30.
(f) If the passenger accommodation is altered while a passenger certificate is in force the fee for surveying and measuring such alterations is $30 provided, however, that if the number of passengers is increased by more than 200 this fee is to be increased by $22.50 for every additional 200, or part of 200, passengers.
(g) For the examination of the midship section and other structural plans of a new passenger ship, including a full investigation into the water-tight subdivision arrangements, the fee is to be one-fourth of that prescribed in the above scale subject however to a maximum of $600. If the ship is surveyed during construction this fee will be considered as part of the fee for a 12 months passenger certificate.
(h) When a ship is surveyed during construction as for passenger certificate, and the survey is to be completed except in regard to certain specific details such as life-saving appliances, passenger accommodation, etc., the fee will be the sum of the fees chargeable for the parts and details actually surveyed with the addition thereto of $22.50 for the issue of a certificate of survey or certifying letter.
(i) The fee for a passenger certificate is independent of the number of visits that a Surveyor may require to make before granting his declaration, and covers the complete survey of the hull, including the inspection of the bottom. etc., in dry dock, the survey of the boilers and propelling machinery on board the ship, the inspection of the equip- ments of the ship, including the lights and sound signals and life-saving appliances but does not cover survey of the wire- less telegraph installation. In the case of a classed ship. the full fee for a 12 months passenger certificate also covers the survey for a certificate of approval of the loadline if such survey is made at the same time.
(j) The fee for a passenger certificate does not cover any service under the Chinese Passenger Act, 1885, or the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915; the measurement for tonnage; the certificate of approval of the loadline of an unclassed ship, or the inspection of Crew Spaces.
(k) In the case of a passenger ship, the fee for change of name includes the issue of fresh declarations and passenger certificates showing the new name and any alterations in the ownership and Port of Registry.
The fee for a passenger certificate is apportioned as follows::
Complete survey of hull
Complete survey of boilers, main
Two-fifths full fee.
propelling machinery and auxi- liary machinery
Two-fifths full fee.
Complete survey of Equipments
One-fifth full fee.
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