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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 6, 1914.
No. 77.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 39 (8) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance No. 10 of 1899), on the 26th day of February, 1914.
The Regulations for the Licensing, Management and Control of Junks and other Chinese vessels made by the Officer Administering the Government-in-Council under Section 39 (8) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, on the 12th day of April, 1912, and published in the Gazette of the 19th day of April, 1912, are hereby amended as follows:
(a.) Regulation No. 7 is hereby repealed and the following new Regulation
substituted therefor:-
(6.)
keeping of
books.
"7. Licence books must be carefully kept and preserved from Provisions "injury. No person shall wilfully damage or deface any licence as to safe "book and no entries shall be made therein by any person not licence "authorized so to do.' The following new Regulation is hereby added after Regulation No. 12 of
the said Table:-
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vessel must
"12a. No vessel licensed under these Regulations shall ply Licensed "within the waters of the Colony unless she is, in the opinion of be properly "the Harbour Master, fully equipped with the necessary crew equipped "and gear, and is seaworthy."
26th February, 1914.
No. 78.
and sea- worthy.
Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 62 (a) of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, (Ordinance No. 4 of 1914), this 5th day of March, 1914.
REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO LICENSED WAREHOUSES FOR THE STORAGE OF RAW OPIUM.
1. Applications for licences shall be made to the Superintendent. Licences shall be in the Form A in the Schedule hereto.
Fees
2. The fees for a licence for a licensed warehouse shall be $250.00 per annum. for licences in respect of a portion of a year only may be received at the rate of one twelfth of the full fee for each month in respect of any part of which the licence may be issued.
3. No licence shall be issued or renewed until the licensee has entered into a recog- nizance in the Form B in the Schedule hereto in such penal sum as the Superintendent of Imports and Exports shall direct secured to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports.
4. The premises in respect of which a licence is issued may be the whole or part of a building. Such premises must be of substantial structure and capable of being securely closed and locked up for warehousing purposes to the satisfaction of the Superintendent. No structural alterations may be made in any licensed warehouse after the issue of a licence without the authority of the Superintendent being first obtained.
5. No opium shall be brought into and stored in a licensed warehouse except in the chests and packages in which it was imported. Every such chest or package shall be left unbroken and intact, and shall not be opened without the authority in writing of the Superintendent.
6. A licensed warehouse shall be exclusively reserved for the storage of opium and no merchandise other than opium shall be kept in such warehouse.
7. All licensed warehouses shall be closed between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. and no opium shall be received or delivered by the licensee during that time except upon the written authority of the Superintendent.
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