(3.) It shall be lawful for any railway official to refuse to carry any luggage or parcel that may be suspected to contain dangerous or offensive goods and to require the same to be opened and in case any such luggage or parcel shall have been received by any official for the purpose of being carried on the railway it shall be lawful for any railway official to stop the transit thereof until he shall be satisfied that the nature and contents of the luggage or parcel are not dangerous or offensive."
Objects and Reasons.
This Bill renders it possible for General Rules to be made with regard to granting free passes, and also puts restrictions on the carriage of dangerous goods.
C. G. ALABASTER,
A BILL
Attorney General.
Short title
tion.
ENTIFLED
An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1899, and certain Or- dinances amending the same.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Merchant and construc- Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1911," and shail be read and construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Ordin- ance, 1899, (hereinafter called “the Frincipal Ordinance”), and this Ordinance and the Principal Ordinance together with the Ordinances amending the same may hereafter be cited as The Merchant Shipping Ordinances, 1899 to
Adds a new proviso to
1911".
2. Section 4 sub-section (2) of the Principal Ordinance as amended by the Merchant Shipping Amendment Or- section 4 (2) dinances, 1905 and 19:9, is hereby further amended by
the addition thereto of a further proviso as follows : --
of Ordinance No. 10 of 1899.
Amends
Ordinance
Provided also that any steam trawler or other fishing vessel propelled by mechanical power other than cars or sails regularly engaged in trawling upon the high seas from the Colony shall also be deemed to comply with the requirements of this sub-section if it is pro- vided with a duly certificated Trawling Master or a master possessing at least a River Trade certificate and an engineer possessing a certi- .ficate of competency from the Harbour Master
of Hongkong."
3. Section 26 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby section 26 of amended by the deletion of the comma at the end of sub- sub-section (ƒ) of sub-section (1) thereof and by the sub- stitution there or of a semi-colon followed by the word or" aud by the addition thereafter of the following sub- sub-section
No. 10 of 1899.
Refusing or neglecting to pay fares.
Repeals a
"(g.) if any person hiring any vessel refuses or neglects on demand by the person in charge of such vessel to pay lawful fare,"”.
4. The section 39 of the Principal Ordinance introduced section intro by section 4 of the Merchant Shipping Amendment the Principal Ordinance, 1906, is hereby repealed and the following
duced into
Ordinance
by section
4 of Or-
dinance No.
16 of 1906 and substi- tutes a new section there- for.
section is substituted in lien thereof :-
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