687
V.-ALL OTHER BOATS OR VESSELS OF ANY DESCRIP-
TION AND USED FOR ANY PURPOSE NOT ALREADY
SPECIFIED (EXCEPT BONA FIDE PLEASURE BOATS).
39. No boat shall carry more than the number of per- Obligation sons for which it is licensed.
to number of
persous
permitted to carry.
40. The licence fees to be charged shall be half those Licence provided for Lighters, Cargo and Water Boats.
Objects and Reasons.
Clause 2 of the Bill relieves steam trawlers and other mechanically propelled fishing vessels from some of the requirements of the Principal Ordinance with regard to the certificates of competency of their officers. "Clause 3, on the analogy of section D of Ordinance No. 10 of 1887, which deals with vechicles on land, provides a fitting punishment (50 fine or two months imprison- ment with or without hard labour) for persons who hire boats and refuse to pay for them. Cinuse 4 requires all junks within the waters of the Colony to be licensed. Formerly liceusing was not compulsory and could only be effected under sub-sections (14), (15) and (16) of section 39 of the Principal Ordinance which is repealed by the Bill. Formerly also section 39 of the Principal Ordinance dealt with junks and section 40 with boats, lighters hulks, etc. The now section 39 contains all that it is desirable to retain of both sections. The terms "vessel", "ship" and "junk" are defined in sec- tion 2 of the Principal Ordinance. In the new Table T the fees for fishing licences remain as before but the fees for trading licences are increased because the special permit is done away with except under exceptional circumstances, Licences in future are to be supplied in book form and so form a permanent history of the vessels in respect of which they are issued. In the new Table U there is but little change. In accordance with the torms of the new section 39 of the Ordinance, Revenue Officers are given powers similar to those possessed already by Police and Harbour Department Officers and persons on board vessels stopped and searched are required to give information as to the ownership of the vessel.
Fees.
A BILL
ENTITLED
C. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General.
An Ordinance to amend the Defence Contribution
Ordinance, 1901.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Defence Con- Short title, tribution Ordinance, 1901, Amendment Ordinance, 1911,” and shall be read and construed as one with the Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901, (hereinafter called the Prin-
be
cipal Ordinance). Any copy of the Principal Ordinance Reprints. printed after the commencement of this Ordinance may printed with the amendments, additions and alterations required by this Ordinance.
2. Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Amendment the addition of the words following, that is to say :-
of section 3 of the Prin-
"Provided that the charges for working expenses cipal Ordin-
and maintenance of the British Section of the ance. Kowloon-Canton Railway and of any railways, telephones or other productive undertakings of a similar character which may hereafter be