THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 26. 1938.
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REGULATIONS.
AMENDMENT OR RESCISSION.
Table E. of the Tables made by virtue of the Mer- chant Shipping Ordinance, 1899. (No. 10 of 1899), — continued.
Harbour Master may certify motor boat eligible for licence in Classes 2, 3 or 4.
Scale of hire during typhoon
weather.
until the time when the motor boat could return to the place of hiring.
Waiting time shall be deducted from the gross period of the trip and shall be paid for at the prescribed rate.
A copy of this regulation shall be exhibited in every motor boat plying for hire to which this regulation is applicable.
16. If the Harbour Master is satisfied that a motor boat in respect of which a licence in Class 1 is in force is struc- turally eligible for a licence in Class 2, Class 3 or Class 4, he may cause his certificate to that effect to be indorsed on the licence, and unless and until such indorsement is made the maximum scale of hire for any such motor boat shall at all times be that prescribed by regulation 15 of these regula- tions.
17. For
any services rendered while any typhoon warning other than warning No. 1 is hoisted, the maximum scale of hire for any launch, or for any motor boat in respect of which a licence in Class 2, Class 3 or Class 4 is in force or which has been certified by the Harbour Master to be eligible for such licence, shall be treble the scale of hire prescribed by regulation 14 of these regula- tions
(10) Regulation 15 is rescinded and the follow- ing regulation is substituted therefor:
"Deduction
from
number of
passengers.
18. If the space measured for pas- senger accommodation is at any time occupied by cargo or passengers' baggage, then one passenger is to be deducted for every 7, 10 or 12 superficial feet of space so occupied, ac- cording as the vessel is plying in Class 1. Class 2 or Class 3 respectively."
(11) Regulation 16 is renumbered 19 and is
amended by the addition of the words,
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"No stores of a dangerous nature shall be carried loosely in tins.'
(12) Regulations 17, 18, 19 and 20 are re- numbered 20, 21, 22 and 23 respectively, and regulation 22 as so renumbered is