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2. In this Ordinance :-
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Launch' means any vessel used in navigation not exceeding 60 tons net registered tonnage in the propulsion of which any use is made of any mechanical means other than oars and sails.
"Master" includes any person (except a pilot)
having command or charge of any ship.
"Passenger "includes any person on a ship other than the master and crew and the owner his family and servants.
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Ship means any vessel used in navigation ex- ceeding 60 tons net registered tonnage in the propulsion of which any use is made of any mechanical means other than oars and sails.
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3. No launch or ship shall leave or attempt to leave the No launch waters of the Colony on a voyage to Amoy, Swatow, or ship to Macao, Kwong Chau Wan, Hoihow, or Haiphong, or to any port or place on the Canton River or the West River voyages or any river or estuary in the province of Kwong Tung or unless a the province of Kwong Sai, or to any port or place in either bond has
been entered of the said provinces, unless the owners agents charterers
into. or licensees of the said launch or ship shall have duly entered into a bond as hereinafter required and unless such bond shall be subsisting and valid in all respects, and if any launch or ship shall leave or attempt to leave the waters of the Colony on any such voyage unless the said bond shall have been duly entered into and shall be subsist- ing and valid in all respects the master of the said launch or ship and the owners agents charterers and licensees shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year and to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
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4. No launch shall carry any passenger from or to any No launch place in the Colony unless the owners, agents, charterers or licensees of the said launch shall have duly entered into a bond as hereinafter required and unless such bond shall be in the subsisting and valid in all respects, and if any launch shall Harbour carry any passenger from or to any place in the Colony unless a unless the said bond shall have been duly entered into and been entered shall be subsisting and valid in all respects the master of into. the said launch and the owners agents charterers and licensees shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year and to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars: Provided that this section shall not apply to the carriage of passengers between places within the limits of the Harbour of Victoria.
5. It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to refuse Clearance, to grant any permission or issue any document or do any etc., may be act necessary to enable any launch or ship to leave the refused waters of the Colony or a port in the Colony in respect of where rea any launch or ship with regard to which he shall have ground to reasonable cause to anticipate that any offence against the anticipate provisions of this Ordinance is about to be committed.
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6. The bond hereinbefore referred to shall be entered Nature into by the owners agents charterers or licensees with two of bond sureties approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police required. and shall in the case of a launch be in the sum of one thousand dollars and in the case of a ship be in the sum of five thousand dollars and shall be conditioned for the observance by the said owners agents charterers or licensees and their servants and employees and any person to whom the said launch or ship may be leased or chartered and the master, crew and staff of the said launch or ship of all the regulations for the time being in force under this Ordinance.
7. The said bond may be in the form set forth in the Form of Schedule to this Ordinance with such alterations omissions bond. and additions if any as may be necessary.
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