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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 23, 1937.
fairway:
6. Vessels crossing a fairway shall avoid vessels proceed- crossing ing through that fairway and flying the appropriate pennant Observation referred to in regulation 5 of these regulations. Subject as Regulations, is in this regulation prescribed all vessels, irrespective of
of Collision
etc.
Moderate speed and caution within the harbour limits.
Timber rafts, etc.
size, shall, whether in a fairway or not, observe the Inter- national Collision Regulations, and no vessel whatsoever shall anchor in any of the fairways.
(II).—MOVEMENT OF VESSELS AND EMBARKAtion of Cargo AND PASSENGERS, &c.
7.-(1) All vessels shall when under way, within the harbour limits, proceed with due caution, and at a speed not exceeding ten knots, unless circumstances render an increase
necessary.
(2) All vessels approaching any vessel employed in diving operations, or in survey work, or in the laying, picking up or repairing of any telegraph or telephone cable or pipe-line shall proceed at dead slow speed and shall take all necessary precautions to avoid fouling any buoy, mark, cable, wire or other apparatus connected therewith.
8. Rafts of timber or logs, when afloat in the waters of the Colony between sunset and sunrise, shall, whether moored or under way, exhibit a white light, visible all round the horizon to a distance of not less than one mile, at a height of not less than six feet above the water, at each end of such raft or log or group of logs; and, if such raft or log or group of logs exceeds fifty feet in length, a further similar light, at the same height, in the centre thereof.
9. Not more than five vessels shall be moored abreast on either side of a ship at a buoy in the harbour; and not more than three vessels shall be abreast alongside any ship's gangway in the harbour.
10. No person shall, without the permission of the master or officer in charge of any ship lying alongside a wharf in the harbour, bring or put any article or thing, other than cargo, on board such ship except from such wharf.
11. Every vessel to which the International Code signal "K" (long, short, long) is made by a police launch shall stop until permitted by the police to proceed.
12. The master of any vessel which has been boarded or entered by the Inspector General of Police or by any police officer pursuant to section 30 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, shall at the request of the Inspector General of Police or of such police officer, hoist signal flag "S" over the code pennant. While such flag and pennant are hoisted no craft, and no person, other than the Health Officer or persons in his boat, shall board or enter, or approach within thirty yards of the vessel.
13. The portions of the seawall within the harbour of refuge referred to in the Harbour of Refuge Ordinance, 1909, on each side of the Yaumati Ferry Pier and of the Mongkok Ferry Pier, for a distance of 50 feet measured from the pier side, shall be kept clear of vessels. No vessel shall be brought alongside or lie off any of the said portions of the